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. Make sure you have a…