The very same theme that Odds and Ends uses is now available for download in the downloads section. I’m psyched to finally release 1.0 of this theme, as I’ve been working on this one for a while.
darkPro features a beautiful dark header, widget sidebar, and great typography and content design all around. But don’t take my word for it. Download it using the button below, or catch it later at the downloads page(That’s also where future versions will be distributed).
At first, I didn’t want to do a post on this topic because there are so many nice ones already. However, this post focuses on the non geek portion of people with Wordpress blogs, who want to incorporate recognition of authors into their blogs. The way this post works is in 3 steps. Before we start anything, however, you’ll want to make sure you have access to edit your theme in some way. If it is FTP, fine. If you’re using the built in wordpress editor, that is also fine.
After my last post about using the <code> element along with entities for > and < to display HTML or PHP on your blog, and setting out to better style the <code> element on this site, I wondered how others were styling the <code> element. So I thought I'd take a look at how Nyssa Brown, Andrew Nesbitt of Teabass, Veerle, Dan Cederhold of SimpleBits fame, Jonathan Snook(of Snook.ca), and Steve Smith(from Ordered List) style their code blocks.
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