Per Design

Mostly musings on design

Per Design

  • An interesting CSS flexbox issue with Apple’s iOS

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    I ran into an interesting issue recently with CSS Flexible Box Layout and Apple’s iOS Safari (latest version) – and the issue only occurs on iOS  Safari. Let’s say you have a parent element with a display: flex;. And let’s say some children elements of this parent element also use display: flex;. These children elements…

  • Updated theme

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    Now that WordPress 4.4 is out, I’ve decided to refresh my theme. I played around with twentysixteen and I am quite impressed. By itself it’s a very understated “blog” theme – but this makes it perfect for customization and extension. You can do this through either the built in WordPress tools or through a custom…

  • Customizing WordPress comments

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    The documentation on customizing WordPress comments is a bit sparse, particularly when compared to WordPress posts. I ran into this issue while building a web application built off of WordPress and wanted to use WordPress’ commenting system with some custom fields and styling. So here’s my attempt to address that.