Markus template added to Tumblr Theme Garden
Tumblr approved my theme to their official theme depot.
Here’s a live demo that better represents the working theme than the site’s default preview option. That demo is also where you can find more information on theme features.
UPDATE: 1.01 released on 2/22. Streamlined Twitter integration. Updated theme options. Added link to this blog for questions.
Wholesome Goodness
Coded splash page and U.S. version of site’s front page. Updated Canadian site for launch in the states. Replaced Canadian product images and nutrition information with U.S. counterparts.
Wholesome Goodness is a brand of “natural, better for you foods” which debuted in the U.S. in February 2012.
Introducing the Markus theme for Tumblr
If you are a fan of simple, clean, easily customizable templates, you will enjoy the Markus theme.
The free theme allows users to quickly change colors, headlines and fonts.
The theme is also optimized for Disqus comments, Twitter, Flickr and Google Analytics.
A full demo is available at markustheme.tumblr.com, but it’s stripped of most bells and whistles.
The best way to get the full experience is to install it yourself.
Feel free to leave questions and comments below.
Site fully integrated with WordPress
After polishing up my custom WordPress theme this morning, I happy to report that this site is now backed by the WordPress CMS.
I built Rick Markus 1.0 from scratch to mirror the look of the site when it was ran solely on HTML and PHP files, so returning visitors might not notice much of a difference.
It’s fulfilling to break away from pre-made themes, especially considering the popularity of WordPress around the Web.
How to use JavaScript in WordPress pages, posts
Because WordPress tries to clean up raw code entered on pages or posts under default settings, it will take your JavaScript code and break it. Therefore, the first thing you have to do is make sure those “features” are disabled:
- In your dashboard go to Users, choose your profile and then check “Disable the visual editor when writing.”
Next, you have to install a plugin that lets you choose to keep your page in it’s raw code form. I chose Text Control, as recommended in the WordPress codex. Note: There seems to be a newer version (2.3) if you choose to install the plugin from inside the WP dashboard, but I couldn’t get it to work properly.
- Install Text Control.
- Go to the page you want to include JavaScript on and make sure there’s a saved version/draft. The plugin options may not appear in the backend of the individual page until there is a saved version.
- From Text Control’s two drop-down menus, choose “No Formatting” and “No Character Encoding”. Read More>>
Washington Spectator
Coded the publication’s front page and article page in HTML and CSS.
The Washington Spectator describes itself as a “feisty bi-weekly bulletin” which gives “independent-minded readers behind-the-scenes insight into significant news that is ignored by the corporate media.”
Independent Living Solutions LLC
Built the site using WordPress.
Independent Living Solutions provides home safety assessments for aging individuals in Columbus, Ohio, who wish to stay in their homes as long into advanced age as possible.
Pollen Records
Coded a promotional page announcing Eleven’s new CD using HTML and CSS.
Eleven is a hard rock band from Los Angeles.
Embed RSS feeds into your WordPress page or post
If you are running a WordPress powered website, and you would like to add an RSS feed to a page or post, your life just got a lot easier.
Forget Yahoo! Pipes, or Google modules or RSSinclude. There’s an WordPress plugin called Embed RSS that is all you need.
It places a button up in your post/page editing links that lets you enter an RSS feed on the fly. You can choose the number of items posted and whether to include post content, author or dates published. The drop down menu appears to limit users to posting 1-20 or 100 links, but if you edit the number in HTML view, you can choose mid range output, like 50 links.
This plugin would have saved me some time, but it hid from me quite well over the past month.
Ohio Newspaper Association
Built OhionNews.org from the ground up using WordPress.
ONA is the trade association for more than 250 Ohio daily and weekly newspapers and more than 150 Web sites.
