Tag Archives: plugin

Using Sifr for nice fonts

May 24, 2008 – 1:14 am

There are just sometimes when you want to use a nice font on your website. Unfortunately, there is no easy way embed custom fonts using HTML/CSS. That generally means you’re stuck using ‘core’ fonts like Arial, Times, Verdana, Georgia, etc.
You could use images, or Flash movies, but both are labor intensive and break accessibility. With [...]

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How to test your new WordPress themes

May 4, 2008 – 3:34 pm

Before you change or update the theme of your WordPress site, it’s a good practice to test that theme first. That way your site’s visitors aren’t greeted with a broken site.
Unfortunately, WordPress offers no built in testing solution, so you generally have two options:

Try out your theme on a test version of WordPress running either [...]

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FeedBurner feed setup

April 27, 2008 – 7:37 pm

I just setup a FeedBurner feed for Media Grease which you can access at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/mediagrease
Using FeedBurner helps in a couple ways. When people and bots check your feed, they are hitting FeedBurner’s servers and not yours. FeedBurner has a number of feed customization options that aren’t built into WordPress, like the ability to have one [...]

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