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Industrial

April 30, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Industrial is a clean theme with a natural look. The background can be removed for cleaner lines and the colors interchanged if needed. I tried to be a little more corporate with this theme, but can’t stop erring on the creative side. As with all themes, nothing is set in stone. This one allows you to use short codes in the widget areas and you can juggle what appears in the widget to your taste. What I have in the preview is just my vision. It doesn’t have to be yours.

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15 Grammar Mistakes That Can Trip You Up

April 25, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Courtesy of Copyblogger, this info graphic outlines the 15 most common grammatical errors for bloggers. If you like it feel free to reblog it – I did!

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Genesis: Enable Shortcodes in Widgets

April 17, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Here’s a quick one – the code below will allow you to use shortcodes in your widgets. I’ve tested it and it works just fine. The only thing that it seemed to break was using Google AdSense code in a text widget – no big deal.

Copy and paste this code into your functions.php – that’s it!

/** Enable shortcodes to be used in widgets */
add_filter( 'widget_text', 'shortcode_unautop');
add_filter( 'widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

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Legacy

April 17, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Legacy was furthering the use of color, this time using the WordPress menu system with custom CSS, again converting a Photoshop PSD navigation image for use in this theme. This one is bright and artful, and incorporates more functions from Studiopress (those guys are awesome by the way). I played with gradients on the submit buttons and used multiple background images for the body. It was more a test of a few different ideas, but out of that came this beautiful theme.