Shiba WordPress Theme Release 2.0 includes some new styling capabilities. We now have styled excerpts for all multi-post pages, as well as a styled WordPress search widget. Here are the key new features for Shiba 2.0 – 1. Styled Excerpts All multi-post pages (e.g. blog front-page, category page, search page) will feature nicely styled blog…..
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WordPress widgets offer us a lot of flexibility. By using widgets, we can easily include a variety of functions into different widget areas within our WordPress blog. However, it can sometimes be difficult to figure out how to properly style these widgets. Here we examine how to flexibly style the native WordPress Search Widget. This…..
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Opacity – seems like it should be an easy task, but unfortunately that is not so. There are at least five ways to change the opacity or transparency of regions within a web-page. What is most difficult is to make opacity work well on Internet Explorer; which often has aliasing issues, and sometimes does not…..
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Here is my third set of WordPress Halloween themed images. It features a scarier and spookier vampire girl with a blood background. Choose from a variety of header and footer Halloween image options below. Halloween Blood WordPress theme images were created with Carrara, Photoshop, and 3D-models from Daz 3D. This web-page scrolls through all the…..
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WordPress excerpts are most useful when you need to display a series of posts in a single page. This often occurs in your – WordPress blog homepage – your most recent posts. Category page – All posts belonging to the selected category. Tag page – All the posts containing the selected tag. Archive page –…..
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Ever seen those spiffy WordPress blogs with automatic changing headers? Some people dislike the effect because they find the animation to be too distracting. I think this slide-show type, rotating header effect can be interesting in certain circumstances. This blog page, for example, has a demo rotating header. I have set the speed of rotation…..
If you are looking for a WordPress Tattoo theme, then these two tattooed ladies may just be the thing for you. You may also enjoy my new Tattoo Girls theme and tattoo blog art. There is the dark-haired beauty with a body Nouveau tattoo design, complete with arm and leg flourishes. Or you may prefer…..
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Shiba WordPress Theme 1.8 now supports a variety of blog background effects and comment threading! Here are the key features added to theme 1.8 – Comment threading and number of comments. If you go to Settings >> Discussion on your WordPress dashboard (release 2.7+), you can set whether to allow comment threading, as well as…..
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There are two interesting blog background effects that we will consider here – 1. A hard edge effect. 2. A soft edge effect. Both these blog background effects can be achieved with a simple PNG gradient background. PNG will allow you to create a transparent gradient that you can then apply to any background color……
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The White Angel is the Yin to the Yang of the earlier Dark Angel theme images. Her dark hair and white wings are a nice contrast to his white hair and dark wings. She hails from the cold, snowy lands, in the north, whereas he comes from the dry, sunny deserts, close to the Equator……
