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Colorful WordPress Tags

By on Feb 19th, 2024 in Code

The goal today is to get the tags on my wordpress posts to look like this: My guidelines are: It’s a very simple php bit I added to my front-page.php file, because that’s where I wanted it to show. I think it looks very nice and organized and I’ve kept the default wordpress settings, meaning […]

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WordPress Custom Header/Footer

By on Oct 12th, 2023 in Code

By default, our wordpress themes will pull the file header.php and place it at the top of all of our pages. This is a basic WordPress template structure: Now, for my portfolio page – for example – I may want the header to be different. This requires 2 steps: Create a header-portfolio.php file Create a […]

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Github Page

By on Oct 12th, 2023 in Code

It is still possible to host a personal website/portfolio on GitHub Pages that is publicly accessible at username.github.io. This feature has been and continues to be popular among developers and other GitHub users. I am only ever on github once in a blue moon. However, I don’t like it one bit when my user page […]

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GitHub profile README

By on Oct 1st, 2023 in Code

1. Set Up: 2. Editing Content: 3. Viewing Changes: Go to your GitHub profile by clicking on your profile picture on the top right corner and selecting “Your profile”. You’ll see the content of the README.md displayed on your profile. For both GitHub Pages and GitHub profile README, you can also use git commands (clone, commit, push, etc.) to […]

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Style for dark mode

By on Aug 24th, 2023 in Code

I’m currently working on the dark and light mode versions of this page. Here’s how I’ve styled it – using local storage so that it remembers the user decision. CSS:

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