[dropcap style=”font-size: 60px; color: #9b9b9b;”]Howdy everyone, I Thought you might like to hear what I’ve been up to today, in case you haven’t noticed already! Well, I’ve spent the day reorganising my posts, sorting out tags and categories and installing a new theme. Everything seems pretty much in “working order” now, although I still have some tidying up to do on older posts!
Everything should be a lot cleaner now, although I do have a few changes still to make to it yet over the coming days. Have a look at the little slide-show below to see some extra features! Hope you like it, and let me know if you notice any problems with it π
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Marianna says
Uhh I really like the new design – looks very neat! I see you sorted out the OpenID thing that we talked about, right? I like the scrolling pictures on top of the first page – is it a plugin or a theme feature?
Charles says
Thanks Marianna – for the open ID thing – in the end all I needed to do was create a disqus account and it seemed to work fine π The featured image slider on the homepage is a theme feature, though it's not as nice as the one I used to have on my old site, stylistically speaking. The old one would show an ajax spinner while all images were loading and then smoothly transition from one to the next, while this one loads them all on top of each other before switching between each image. I'll need to hack it a bit to get it working I think.
Marianna says
There is an addon called OpenID – it not only enables OpenID comments on our site, but also provides you your own openID for your site, so you can log in with your url in every site where they accept it. It sounds like something that you wanted to do.
Charles says
Thanks Marianna – in fact though I think I prefer the core WordPress comments function. It's less social-media friendly for sure, but gives me more control I think – in any case, there's still some things I want to change on the site so those will come with time π
Marianna says
… and by addon i mean plugin ofc )) http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/openid/ this one
Eva says
Very lovely site, Charles! This one works so much better on my iPhone! Looking forward to seeing new recipes.
Charles says
Thanks Eva – I was wondering if I should get a dedicated mobile theme, although checking this on my own phone it actually works pretty well, even in "full" mode. What do you think?
bakerbynature says
Looking good Charles; I love the clean and easy navigation of the site.
Charles says
Thank you! The old way was getting a bit cluttered so it's nice to have everything so ordered and tidy π
Sissi says
Oh, I have forgotten to say I like very much the "by cost" recipe category! Congratulations once more! It has been an excellent choice!
Charles says
Ha! The result of hours of work. Having to go through and cost-tag every single post! Gaaah. Still, it's done now so I won't have to do it again, and it's given me an incentive for a few ideas on something I can do to keep in theme with my site title!
Greg says
It really looks great!
Charles says
Thanks Greg π
Kristy says
Hi Charles! I LOVE it! It's so clean and organized. Right up my alley. π Again, your programming skills just impress me. Nicely done!
Charles says
Thanks Kristy – Need to work on a nice clean "autumnal" logo now π
Karen says
I like the new look…modern, clean and easy to navigate.
Charles says
Thanks Karen π Feels like everything has its own place now, which is nice! π
Pure Complex says
I love the new clean look. I just love a clean, tidy blog and this layout definitely fits you. I love it Charles.. bravo!
Charles says
Oops, missed this commment – thanks Kay π
Joanna Swan says
oh em gee! yay! The site looks fabulous. I've really got to do the same with mine..some day…
Hope you're recovering from pseudo carpal tunnel/eyestrain after all those hours of redesign!
-Joanna
Charles says
Haha, thanks Joanna π Things were a bit fraught for a few minutes when I thought I'd deleted important files but it seems to be running fine now, knock on wood π