Subtle for WordPress

The WordPress folks changed the way get_page_children works, breaking quite a few themes that used the function. This affected sites that use the “Show sub-pages when viewing a page” option. The Return True site posted a fix that seems to work fine, though I’d love to hear from people if there are any problems. […]

Nina’s comment that WordPress 2.5 worked was enough for me to throw caution to the wind and just install it on the GI site without testing. Bad form, I know, but sometimes you just want to see what all of the fuss is about. Well, Subtle and WP 2.5 seem to work just […]

With a lot of help from Nina over at Lazy Geisha, Subtle 0.41 comes to you with a bunch of bug fixes and added support for tags. Personally, the tag / category distinction is a little funny, but I understand why they added it. That said, marking themes that don’t support tags as […]

When widgets were first introduced, the API documentation suggested a number of cool widget ideas including a widget for “asides” - basically those separate streams of posts that don’t fit into the main blog stream and need their own space in the sidebar. Asides were the rage two years ago, but it seems like […]

In addition to pastoring and being a dad, I also build websites for people. Some of those sites include DiMichi International and Digital Photography Blogs and now I can add a new site to the list: Real Fusion. It’s a week-daily video podcast focusing on spirituality and life. The guys are cool and the shorts are usually funny. I built the template and did some identity work, so check out the site and let us know what you think.

So here’s how the conversation more or less went down with John…
John: Dude, the site has a PR7! What the heck?
Chris: Really? No way. Wow… it does. Too bad it got hacked. I had to pull the thing down.
John: You’ve GOT to get something up there.
Chris: Ya… you’re probably right.
So […]