After installing the twenty fifteen theme I found that disqus’ comments were butting up against the edges of the layout. You can fix this by adding the following Custom CSS @media screen and (min-width: 59.6875em) { #disqus_thread { margin-top: 8.333%; margin-left: 8.333%; margin-right: 8.333%; } } @media screen and (min-width: 38.75em) { #disqus_thread {… Continue reading How To: Tweak Disqus CSS for Twenty Fifteen Theme
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The Best Way to Synchronize WordPress Uploads
One of the most annoying things about setting up a dev environment for an existing WordPress site is syncing the content. Pulling down the database is trivial, even a large site will have a relatively small database dump. I often use the WordPress Duplicator plugin. But a site with years of photos and other uploads… Continue reading The Best Way to Synchronize WordPress Uploads
How To: Find Out The Price of Bitcoin
What is the quickest way to find out what price bitcoin is at, you ask? Simple. WhatIsBitcoinAt.com Update. I added a bunch of currencies and made tinyurls for them. USD – http://tiny.cc/BTCUSD CAD – http://tiny.cc/BTCCAD EUR – http://tiny.cc/BTCEUR CNY – http://tiny.cc/BTCCNY
Bitcoins: How The Hell Do You Buy Them?
This week I bought bitcoin and it was a lot harder than I would have ever thought. With bitcoin being the most popular and valuable fully virtual currency of all time, I expected the process of buying bitcoins to be straightforward. “After all, I can purchase anything from deodorant to diamonds on Amazon at the… Continue reading Bitcoins: How The Hell Do You Buy Them?
Carousels Are Useless
Carousels are a lazy and ineffective way to surface content on the web. Stop using them. — End of Post — Earlier this year, Erik Runyon the director of web stuff at the prestigious University of Notre Dame, took a close look at how their users were interacting with carousel content. He found that of the 1% of… Continue reading Carousels Are Useless