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WordPress Wednesdays: Adding Author Byline to Standard Theme

herbhalstead —  January 26, 2011 — 11 Comments

UPDATE: This post is outdated. Here is the updated tip.

Matthew Snider usually occupies this space, but I (Herb) thought I’d share a WordPress tip this week. Here at GeekRev, we use Standard Theme. It is an excellent theme with tons of built-in features. But, as any techy blog owner would be, I can’t leave well enough alone. Along with some CSS modifications, I have a few coded modifications too. Since we have multiple authors posting here, one of those modifications I added is an author byline in the “post meta” section of posts (under the post titles). I want to show you how to do that today.

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WordPress Wednesdays: highlight author comments

Matthew Snider —  January 19, 2011 — 26 Comments

This WordPress Wednesdays entry is a re-post from Matthew’s old blog as we resurrect them here at GeekRev.

Today we will touch on a little trick that I have added in the last few days. This is a simple 2 minute change that I think really brings out the blog comments that much more.

Highlighting the author’s comments can really help readers easily track the author’s comments from everyone else. When readers come to a post with a ton of comments, they may want to check comments of the author first. There are some plugins that could do this job, but you know my stance on plugins over code!

So to get this working correctly in your WordPress blog, all you have to do is add the code snippet below to your style.css or for Standard Theme users, custom.css. Make sure you type this out, it will help you to learn the code rather than the easy copy and paste! This does get a little crazy with nested comments and I am working out the bugs now for it! Continue Reading…

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WordPress Wednesday: Styling a single page

Matthew Snider —  January 12, 2011 — 3 Comments

I have the awesome privilege of offering up to you all WordPress tips and tricks every week. What can be expected is master trickery when it comes to CSS and WordPress editing. Something I find myself learning more and more about everyday.

Today I wanted to introduce to you a very easy way to alter the look of a single page or multiple pages within your WordPress installs. The images on a page along with the CSS styles can all be altered depending on the page you are on within your site. It’s a quick technique and really fun to do once you figure it out. Continue Reading…

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Introducing Matthew Snider

herbhalstead —  January 6, 2011 — 14 Comments

Hi, fellow GeekRev’s… I wanted to take a moment to introduce a new member of the team, Matthew Snider (@snidermatthew). Matthew is a husband and father who has been loving and following Christ. I first “met” Matthew through his blog, where he shares his spiritual journey, his love for tech, and his coding skills. Continue Reading…

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