fumbling around wordpress
Posted by jonathan - 24/01/08 at 11:01:39 am
I like to stay in touch with the people. When it comes to technology that means I test drive the software which non-nerd-tool people use to accomplish a task a software engineer might try and build himself, see blog.a.lish. In this case I chose to enable a wordpress blog through my hosting company, hostmysite.com. I have gotten past just kicking the tires and recently switched over to a calmer theme that I picked up from the best designer I know, forgetfoo. While the tagging structure of asp.net and php are similar, <%= “Hello 1 person reading this” %> to <?php echo “Hello 2nd person reading this” ?>, as a .net guy I sometimes feel like a fresh water fish in a salt water pond.
Only today did I fully realize that when you change a wordpress theme you change the header and footer files as well. To an asp.net guy a theme is a smaller more design oriented concept. For wordpress, a theme encompasses the entire css, js and php code for the site. Any custom code I had added in is gone. Doh! Bye-bye link to stylesheet, all done google analytics code, see you later ad words tweaks.
I put these items back into the theme, and decided to add the following mods to upgrade the the posting experience:
- css opacity on hover
- js code to throw in target=”_blank” on all external links
Check out the sample I setup here. If you view source on the html you will see link 3 has target=”_blank” defined already while link 4 does not. If you view the html post js processing, in firebug of course, you will see the target attribute added to the 4th link.
Do you have any custom code you’ve added to your blog for easilbity?
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I like your externalizer and my st’borrow it. My consideration is that I want all the external RSS link I serve via RSS to be target=”_blank” as well. This means I either do it server side, which is really only forestalled by my lazy ass (can you say ass on this site? I know this is a family site and all). So, truth be told, I’ve actually gotten really good at type target=”_blank”.
You’d think I’d put some stupid JS keystroke macros on my entry page by now right.
Comment by Jason — January 24, 2008 #
It is a nice skin by the way.
Comment by Jason — January 24, 2008 #
you know my lazy ass got tired of typing target=”_blank”. I assume you were asking to borrow and improve it which of course it what its posted there for.
Comment by jonathan — January 27, 2008 #