sillybean.net http://sillybean.net reading, writing, web design, and the intersections thereof Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:48:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Web Standards for E-books Web Standards for E-books — Joe Clark is always worth reading, but in this article he’s tackling the intersection of my two professions. Excellent stuff.

]]> http://sillybean.net/elsewhere/web-standards-for-e-books/ Intro to urban fantasy They get points off for staring the article with, “Since ancient times,” but if you need to hand someone an intro reading list for urban fantasy, you could do a lot worse than Library Journal’s list. My other quibble?…

]]> http://sillybean.net/elsewhere/intro-to-urban-fantasy/ Creating roles Sometimes, rather than adding capabilities to an existing role, you need to create a whole new role. The code to do so is relatively easy. Again, place these lines in your theme’s functions.php file:

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How rare is snow here? I’d never seen this glyph on the weather widget, let’s put it that way.

]]> http://sillybean.net/life/snowmg/ preserving HTML http://sillybean.net/wordpress/metadata/preserving-html/ moving the furniture If you follow me on RSS or LiveJournal, you probably just saw a flood of new posts. Sorry about that! When I started wordpress-as-cms.com last summer, I meant it to be a place where I could write about all…

]]> http://sillybean.net/web-design/blogging/moving-the-furniture/ Esquire has an amazing profile of Roger Ebert Esquire has an amazing profile of Roger Ebert

]]> http://sillybean.net/elsewhere/esquire-has-an-amazing-profile-of-roger-ebert/ using shortcodes everywhere http://sillybean.net/wordpress/content/using-shortcodes-everywhere/ A letter to the personal care industry Could you try to sell us products that don’t infantilize us and give us cancer?

nolove,
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]]> http://sillybean.net/life/a-letter-to-the-personal-care-industry/ Take control of your excerpts Here are three short functions you can add to your theme’s functions.php file to change the way excerpts work on your site.

When you use the_excerpt() in a theme file, WordPress will first use the contents of the Excerpt field…

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