"CSS" Category

When I first joined LinkedIn I got excited about their book/library plugin… until my colleagues got annoyed with constant updates when I finished a book and started another. Then I found the Now Reading Reloaded plugin for WordPress. With the recent theme upgrade I had a few challenges updating the CSS and Page Templates used by NRR to suit my updated theme. This post summarises some of the things I found…
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Here’s a challenge… the WordPress “Add New Post” page that I’m currently using to type this post into has a button labeled “code“. If you select a chunk of code (such as the CSS I’ll put later) it wraps the <code> and <\code> tags around it. Depending on the CSS you have mapped to the code tag, you will get a nicely displayed piece of code in your blog. But there’s a catch; you can’t get a solid box/background just by using the default code tags. You need to add the <pre> and <\pre> tags as well….
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When redesigning my theme, I wanted to include a standard set of “share” links (or “social links” or “story tools”) for the posts and pages, featuring the usual print, email, rss and social-bookmarking links. Many people use the Sociable and ShareThis plugins for all of these, but I wanted to have a structure with separate links for each.

This article is a walk-through of creating two styles of “share” links, an inline set of links and a box (that also contains my tags).
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I’ve recently updated the theme used by this wordpress-based blog. In doing so I learned a lot about Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), layout and the implications on a website that uses a mix of base “product” (i.e. WordPress) and a multitude of plugins from a variety of authors that often follow their own standards on style and formatting. This article summarises the key things I’ve learned. They are not in any particular order.
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