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.
12.10.2008
WordPress 2.7 Comment Style Starters: WordPress 2.7 Comment Style Starter #1 WordPress 2.7 Comment Style Starter #2 Stylizing Threaded/Nested Comments in WordPress 2.7 In case you missed the first post related to WordPress 2.7 comments, please check it out. As promised here’s some starter CSS for stylizing comments in your WordPress 2.7-compatible theme. I hope … Read the rest of this item
12.03.2008
WordPress 2.7 Comment Style Starters: WordPress 2.7 Comment Style Starter #1 WordPress 2.7 Comment Style Starter #2 One of the features I love in WordPress 2.7 is the ability to have threaded (nested) comments up to 10 levels deep. While viewing comments on this – or any WordPress 2.7-powered – site, you’ll notice a Reply … Read the rest of this item
09.30.2008
The WordPress community gives much of itself to users who don’t always give back. I created Effercio Blue and Nanideska last year, but as of today both they are being released under GPL. If you downloaded them prior to today, the old Creative Commons license still applies. Effercio Blue – A two-column theme for WordPress. Support WordPress tags, dynamic sidebar … Read the rest of this item
06.17.2008
I disabled Disqus commenting on my site. As it stands now, it just doesn’t integrate fully enough into WordPress for me to be happy with it. I’ll see if I can migrate the handful of comments over to be on my site within the next day or so. I think Disqus has a lot of … Read the rest of this item
01.10.2008
Since installing Aksimet, it’s blocked 50,222 spam messages from appearing on my site. That’s a lot of crap I didn’t have to deal with. Thank you Akismet. (I wish I could determine exactly when I started using the plugin… but I am not sure where to find that information…) If you’re blogging with WordPress, enable … Read the rest of this item
10.19.2007
After a bit of a delay, Nanideska is now available. I’m calling this a 1.0 release, simply because it works as is… but future development and improvements are planned. Your feedback will help drive future plans for this theme! I’ve purposefully tried to limit the color palette to shades of gray, cyan and lime green. … Read the rest of this item
09.05.2007
The wide variety of plugins available for WordPress is what sold me on the application. If WordPress doesn’t do something you’d expect it to do, there’s probably a plugin available to fill the void. On my site, I use several plugins to keep things running smoothly or to add functionality not present in a core-install … Read the rest of this item
WordPress 2.3 introduces a new feature to the popular blog platform: tagging. Sure, you’ve been able to do it with plugins like Ultimate Tag Warrior in the past, but WordPress’ built-in tag system is simple, unobtrusive, and easy to use. In order to get tags to display on individual posts, we’ll use the_tags. <?php the_tags(‘before’, … Read the rest of this item
This coming weekend I’ll be releasing my second WordPress theme: Nanideska. Nanideska is a two-column theme based on the design I previously had here at cdharrison.com. I was thinking I had a screen capture of it somewhere, but searches through my archives on flickr didn’t yield any results. The following capture/Photoshop image should give you … Read the rest of this item
09.01.2007
Information on this theme can now be found on this dedicated page: Themes > Effercio. This post will no longer be updated. Well, the time is here. As promised yesterday, I’m releasing Effercio Blue into the wild. You can snag it here: WordPress Theme: Effercio Blue 1.0.1 A demo of the site can be found … Read the rest of this item