More Header Changes and a New Plugin
I hate a cluttered header and this DeepBlue Theme, while really nice to work with, had both the search function and the RSS subscribe function in the header.
Blog Header Before Functions Moved
It was a pretty simple matter to delete the functions from the header.php file in the Theme Editor section of the Design Tab. Reinserting the functions into the sidebar was a little trickier in this theme as there are actually 3 files for the sidebar. I also had to edit the main style sheet to make the functions display as I wanted them to.
While I was doing all this, I added an email subscribe because many of you are probably old people like me and don’t really think RSS feeds are all that great either. I use them if I can’t subscribe via email but I’d rather get everything I need in my inbox :)
I’d also been experimenting lately with the number of posts I displayed on the front page of this blog. I started with 10 and that made an awfully long page as I get pretty long-winded in some of my posts. Then I changed it to 4 posts and visitors only got a smattering of all the things I write about here. I didn’t like that either.
I knew I could switch to using all excerpts of my posts but I didn’t think that was so cool to have to click to read every single post on the page. I knew there had to be a solution to print some posts in their entirety and make the rest shorter so, off to Google.
First I found some code that purported to do this and probably worked with some version. But after 3 hours of messing with my blog on my local machine, it was back to Google.
Should have looked at one of my favorite sites, Daily Blog Tips, first. Sure enough, they had just the plugin that I wanted.
So whadda ya think of the new look?
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