Bare bones? You got it. Tersus is an achingly simple WordPress theme without all the usual cruft.
This is the personal site/blog/experiment of Chris Harrison, a web designer living, working and playing in Augusta, GA.
02.10.2012
It’s far from complete, but Super Ginormous is available on GitHub. It requires a fork of Tersus that will soon be merged — if approved ;) — into the core theme code. Check it out if you get a chance. I’d love to hear what you think. Got any specific requests on what you’d like to see … Read the rest of this item
02.08.2012
Over the next few weeks, the design of this site is going to evolve. I’m working on the first of several child themes for Tersus. Our original plan was to include several “flavors” but they did too much and limit others and their ability to build on top of what we’ve done. If you have … Read the rest of this item
02.01.2012
DropPress. Add photos to a Dropbox folder and have them automagically appear as a post on your WordPress site.
08.12.2010
Want to add a Twitter Tweet button to your WordPress posts? It’s super easy: Horizontal Button: Tweet Vertical Button: Tweet Simple, No-Count Button: Tweet Customizing Output: Change out data-via=“cdharrison” to your your own Twitter handle. The inclusion of data-text=“Check out < ?php the_title(); ?> on < ?php bloginfo( ‘name’ ); ?>” isn’t necessary, but it’ll give you … Read the rest of this item
07.27.2010
Based on this quick tip from WPRecipes, I was able to quickly figure out how to count and display the number of Custom Posts (of a particular type) that I had on a site. Simply replace post_type = ‘listing’ with whatever you’ve named your custom post type. Then, to get the number to display somewhere on your page, simply … Read the rest of this item
12.23.2009
Here are some 125×125 badges I made for Wordcamp Atlanta: And some 300×75 badges:
12.16.2009
the_post_thumbnail is one of my favorite additions to WordPress 2.9, but I recently ran into a problem… the images I had set as my post thumbnails weren’t being included in my RSS feed. Assuming you’ve already added support for thumbnails to your theme, you should be able to add this snippet to your theme’s functions.php file to display … Read the rest of this item
05.16.2009
WordPress 2.8 beta1 was just released.What’s new? Lots, apparently. If you’re using WordPress 2.7.1 and want to upgrade using Tools > Upgrade all you have to do is open /wp-includes/version.php and change the version number from 2.7.1 to 2.8. Then run Tools > Upgrade. The latest development version will be installed when you upgrade. Note, … Read the rest of this item
12.24.2008
Having problems getting WordPress 2.7 Comment Threading to work on your site? Unless you’re using one of the default themes provided with each version of WordPress, chances are your theme isn’t ready for comment threading when you upgrade to WordPress 2.7. To enable comment threading, you need to do the following: Enable comment threads in … Read the rest of this item
12.10.2008
In case you missed the first post related to WordPress 2.7 comments, please check it out. This is the second set of WordPress 2.7 Comment style starters. (Here’s Style Starter #1.)