My current blog template (Grid Focus by Derek Punsalan 5thirtyone.com) features an icon in the upper right corner that has no personal meaning to me.
I decided to replace it, and while I was at it I would also make the icon a random icon. WordPress has all sorts of random image plugins — some are too powerful and some are not powerful enough.
Since I was going to have to modify the theme’s code anyway, I figured I would just code the random image generator directly and make it do exactly what I wanted it to. Read the rest of this entry »
Today is just a quick little addition to the footer of the blog to show how many database queries it took to build the web page and how much time it took. Read the rest of this entry »
So I’m now at the point where I’d like to be able to start putting in some advertising slots on this blog for affiliate links and for google adsense ads. That means I need a bit more control over the theme and a bit more “room” to put things. I’m also finding that a lot of widgets in the sidebar need more horizontal space than the two narrow sidebar columns allow.
Fortunately, there’s plenty of unused space in the footer of the blog — so I’m going to move some of the more wordy widgets down there — which should clear space for some 120×600 ads in the sidebars as well as other types of advertising. Also, it will make the Recent Posts and Recent Comments widgets more readable by putting them where they can spread out horizontally.
However, the theme I’m currently using doesn’t have any support for widgets in the footer!
I’m going to have to add those myself. Fortunately, it is very easy to add additional components in WordPress. Read the rest of this entry »
