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WordPress.com has shortcodes?
Here’s something I didn’t know (for the last year and a half): WordPress.com has shortcodes. What are shortcodes and why are they important?
First, let me quote from that page I just linked:
“A shortcode is a WordPress-specific code that lets you do nifty things with very little effort. Shortcodes can embed files or create objects that [...]
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Playing with themes again
I didn’t like using the “Tarski” theme here as much as I hoped so I’ll try a few others now. If anyone is actually reading this, don’t be surprised if the site keeps changing today. WordPress.com currently has 75 themes available and I may just try them all.
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Using a new theme
I’ve been using the “White as Milk” theme here for a long time but switched today to “Tarski.” Which, of course, meant I reconfigured the sidebars again. But that’s why I have this blog — so I can play around with it.
While the versions of these themes built into the WordPress.com system are quite nice, [...]
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Having fun with sidebar widgets
Since I’m not writing many posts here (yet!), I decided to add and rearrange sidebar widgets today. While I started the task to simply play with the new features of WordPress 2.7, the whole activity wound up adding quite a bit of new content, albeit aggregated, to each page.
While I knew vaguely about one of [...]
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Happy anniversary
It’s been exactly one year since my last post. Golly, where does the time go?
While I was away, Senator Barack Obama, the subject of that last post, went from candidate to nominee to president. Wow! Still hard to believe sometimes. Looks like I made the right call voting for him. Yes we did, yes we [...]
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The unsafe choice
My political affiliation is not normally defined by party lines. Although I was raised Republican, registering as one was not due to ideology, but simply out of respect for my maternal grandfather.
Over the years I’ve voted for Republicans. But I’ve also voted for candidates from other parties, and I’ve put my mark on plenty of [...]
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Hello? Hello! Is this thing on?
This is the first post to my “other blog.” Where is my primary blog? That’s a difficult question to answer since it both no longer exists and doesn’t exist yet. And sort of exists now in a different format.
Yeah, I know that was confusing. Let me explain.
Years ago I started a blog on my own [...]
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