The Problem While laying out new website designs in Photoshop I came across some strangely formatted text. The “r” character would stick up above the x height (or median). In general the text looked very poor. The Simple Solution It turns out I inadvertantly (no idea how it happened) set the anti-aliasing method to “sharp”. [...]

A big part of changing names from WP Limits to Legend Themes was switching the Twitter account. I am never sure how much of a connection your Twitter followers actually have with a specific account. Would they notice if an account suddenly switched names? How much notice should you give? Acquiring the New Name. Once [...]

We just launched a WP Limits Twitter account. It will feature short (140 characters or less!) tips on WordPress or links to other great articles. Don’t worry, we won’t update more than once per day, so we won’t be spamming your account. Lots of great resources coming! Make sure to follow the account here: http://twitter.com/wplimits [...]

Using a plugin is the most common way to create breadcrumb navigation. The most popular plugin is Breadcrumb NavXT Though this is a functional plugin, it is not the best (too many database queries as well as having to include a plugin with your theme is rather clunky). This article: http://www.kriesi.at/archives/wordpress-tutorial-simple-breadcrumb-navigation Details how to do [...]

This is a great little bit of code. What it does is create static home page link in your navigation that you could place before your wp_list_pages code, to have an active state on your home page link. This way you can use css to style the “current_page_item” class like for any other page. Here’s [...]

Hello all, welcome to our first Friday Tip. Today we have a wonderfully put together WordPress reference or cheat sheet. In the three days since I have discovered it, it has already proved to be a very valuable resource. Spend some time just reading through it and you will learn more about specific tags and [...]