I have a lot of experience in coding good old fashioned WordPress themes, but I’ve never really delved into the prospect of working with “child” themes.
After reading countless blog posts by Justin Tadlock and Ian Stewart about how great WordPress child themes are, I decided to give it a shot.
Category Archives: Technology
Experimenting With WordPress Child Themes
Cuil Sucks
Cuil (pronounced “cool”) is supposed to be the hot new search engine on the block, created by ex-Google engineers. Let me tell you right now, it sucks - so far at least. Just search anything, anything at all, look at the results, and you’ll see what I mean. A search for “Leland.info” [...]
Gmail Has A Black Dot
Stop the presses, this just in: Gmail, a popular free webmail service, has a black dot located in the top left corner of the page. What could this dot be? It seems the general consensus is that it is an iframe, with a border. More to come as this breaking news story [...]
Web 2.0 Overload
Just take a look at this web 2.0 map of the world, which features exactly 1001 logos from various web 2.0 websites. Obviously there are a few repeats, but still - there’s a good number of sites in that map. I have to admit it’s pretty cool, and a lot of effort was [...]
Firefox 3 Breaks World Record
It was announced that Firefox Download Day 2008 set a world record with 29,008,009 downloads. I recently upgraded to Firefox 3 myself, so I guess I’m one of those 29 million or so downloads. Congrats Firefox!