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Hey look, yet another theme redesign!

Kevin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:03:25 +0000

I got bored with Thesis on my personal blog, and have a recently renewed interest in minimalist blog designs. Mix in a touch of ADD, and voila, a new blog design! This one is basically out of the box Empty Canvas, with my own tweaks. In case this is... Read more...

Creating a personal home page with Thesis

Kevin — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:28:33 +0000

Being in the job market of late forced me to take a hard look at my personal Web presence – LinkedIn profile updated? Yep. Facebook info cleaned up? Done. Twitter all polished? Of course. What remained was my own blog – 1000+ posts and se... Read more...

Thesis Theme as a Niche Amazon, eBay Store

Kevin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:43:35 +0000

One of my side projects of late has been to learn more about SEO, SEM, and how affiliate programs work. One flavor of affiliate site is the niche content store, which can drop in product listings from any number of sources, though the most popular a... Read more...

How to Twitterize your Wordpress Blog

Kevin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:33:04 +0000

The past week has seen a veritable explosion in activity around ways to work Twitter into your blog, largely inspired by this post over on Mashable. Given the very impressive growth rate (422% YOY as of August 2008), and the seemingly unlimited utili... Read more...

iPhone App for Wordpress? Oh so very right.

Kevin — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:32:45 +0000

On a sanity break between hammering PowerPoint slides in preparation for the launch of our new site in a few weeks, I decided to drool a bit over all the new iPhone apps coming out or being announced. The most exciting so far available – Everno... Read more...

Wordpress Amateur Hour: enabling large file uploads with upload_max_filesize

Kevin — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:24:13 +0000

This was a minor odyssey – I’m trying to import a Wordpress Export/XML file to this blog, yet the file size of 2.8MB exceeds the built-in limit of 2MB. Apparently this was included as a bandwidth hedge for hosters of some kind. Judging by... Read more...

Introducing Wheaton Scores, my shiny new personal Wordpress theme

Kevin — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:49:04 +0000

Well, that at least explains the name – though I admit it has nothing to do with such relevant things such as “wordpress” “themes” or even “blogging”. But I do love watching that video, so any excuse to show... Read more...

MOAR theme editing!

Kevin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:59:06 +0000

So please stick with me – I’m editing the live site on the fly (I know…rockstar coding practice right there). Hopefully will have something reasonable up within a day or two. ... Read more...

It’s alive! Fixed WP2.0 and K2 RC3

Kevin — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:59:04 +0000

Man, that sucked. I charged into an upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress (2.5) without bothering to check if my theme (K2) was actually compatible. Turns out, it wasn’t. Things died, code flew, tears rolled. OK, maybe no tears but it wasn... Read more...

Wordpress Amateur Hour: Popularity Contest vs. FAlbum Setup Issues

Kevin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:35:27 +0000

Tonight I implemented Alex King’s excellent Popularity Contest (download) on my blog, in order to get the reader-friendly “Most Popular Posts” sidebar widget displayed. This a useful over the long haul as any blog builds up more pos... Read more...