Per Design

Mostly musings on design

Per Design

  • Thoughts on WordPress 3.8

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    Responsive, platform/screen agnostic back-end for the win. Not enough value contrast on the back-end styles for my tastes. A bit more value differentiation between the darkest gray (#222) and the slightly lighter dark gray (#333) would have been nice (say a #444). The other styles to choose from are interesting. Some are quite vibrant but…

  • A very useful WordPress code snippet to know…

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    As I was working on a custom WordPress theme (based on _s) I found myself trying to get the slug of a post to use as a class for additional styling. Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t have a get_the_slug() function or a the_slug() function. Well, not built out like that at any rate. The “why not?” is…

  • October means constent leaf pickup

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    Ben
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    So living in Michigan, I’ve now learned that October means constant leaf pickup. I guess I could wait until it all finishes dropping but I would like my lawn to get some decent sunlight and growing prior to it snowing. At any rate, it’s good exercise and the kids are pretty helpful as well.