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  • Fun with pseudo-elements

    Fun with pseudo-elements

    This is totally a hack. But it works, and without modifying the markup output by the plugin.

  • Creating markup in CSS

    Creating markup in CSS

    Sometimes the markup provided by a WordPress plugin isn’t quite what you want. If editing the plugin itself isn’t an option, maybe you can fake it with CSS.

  • Infinite scrolling and footer menus

    Infinite scrolling and footer menus

    With the most recent release of my WordPress theme Cover, I’ve included an enhancement that I’m kind of proud of.

  • Social media icons

    Social media icons

    I had a hard time deciding on what social media icons to include in Cover’s stylesheet.

  • Translation fun

    Translation fun

    In my efforts to get my WordPress theme on the official theme directory, I had to update the .pot file. I started out with a manual process, and eventually settled on a completely automated process (as any good developer should).

  • Moving mixins to autoprefixer

    Moving mixins to autoprefixer

    I’m quite pleased. I managed to cut down Cover’s stylesheet from 72K to 63K, and it’s all because of Autoprefixer.

  • Implementing Fluidbox

    Implementing Fluidbox

    I discovered an awesome jQuery plugin yesterday, called Fluidbox. I have since implemented it in my Cover theme for WordPress.

  • Fancy navigation

    I wanted to share this little bit of code, because I think it’s awesome.

  • A perfect storm

    A perfect storm

    This post could also be titled “How an update to the Github app combined with a change to how my project compiles Sass rendered me incapable of committing my code.”

  • Brackets and Sass

    The WordPress theme I run on eichefam.net is one I’ve built myself from the ground up. I had initially set it up using Less to compile the stylesheet, but I really wasn’t using any of its advantages (like nesting, loops, that kind of thing) over plain old CSS. After doing some reading, I came to…