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Permalink Settings

March 17, 2011

Update: This issue will no longer exist once WordPress 3.3 is released: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/18541/ I just learned today that certain permalink structures in WordPress are better than others from a performance stand point. As it turns out, starting the permalink structure with %postname%, %category%, %tag%, or  %author% can cause a performance hit on blogs with lots […]

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Sackcloth Studios Redesign

February 24, 2011

It’s been a few years since I first launched sackclothstudios.com (my business site) and it was beginning to show it’s age. The newest post on the blog was over a year old and the site just needed a little love. I figured while I was at it, I might as well document the process.

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Easy Embed WordPress Plugin

July 29, 2010

The WordPress editor doesn’t always play nice with HTML (especially if you switch back and forth between the Visual and HTML editor). This problem has bugged me for a while, and I finally sat down and built a simple plugin to solve it. There are other solutions out there, but I find this method to […]

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Sanitary Theme 0.3

July 28, 2010

I’ve made a number of improvements since version 0.2. Although I’m sure there are plenty more improvements that could be made, I figure it’s about time I released update. Below is the changelog. Download Sanitary 0.3

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Outline: the Ignored CSS Property

June 18, 2010

Note: Here is another post originally written for my blog over at sackclothstudios.com. However, with the changes I’m making to that site, I figured the post would be of more use here on this site. Outline is a seldom used and often misunderstood CSS property. An outline is a line that is drawn around an […]

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Simple PHP Redirect in WordPress

June 17, 2010

Update: there is also a WordPress function for redirects: wp_redirect() Sometimes when using WordPress you want to include a non-Wordpress page in your main navigation while still maintaining the simplicity of the wp_list_pages() function. I know there are plugins that do this type of thing, but many of them are just overkill. I just needed […]

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One Year

June 1, 2010

Today marks exactly one year since I started this website. It has been (and I hope it continues to be) a grand experiment in blogging. This past year of blogging definitely didn’t go as planned. First, I started working for Jason Schuller over at press75.com, which has been great! Then I went back to school […]

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Sanitary Theme 0.2

April 15, 2010

Update: Version 0.3 is now available. It has been 10 months to the day since I released Sanitary 0.1, a clean starting point for developing WordPress themes. An update is obviously overdue, so even though it will need to be updated again as soon as WordPress 3.0 comes out, I’m releasing Sanitary 0.2. It is […]

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