Author Archives for Christopher Frazier
Subtle 0.4 - Working with Widgets
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 [...]
Glued Theme Available
So it only took months for me to remove five lines of code to make the theme style generic, but I finally am making available the Glued theme style for anyone interested in having a site that looks pretty much exactly like this one. The theme style doesn’t support header image import or anything [...]
Wordpress 2.2 Widgets: K2 to the Rescue!
Blogan, on the K2 forums, has posted a great plugin that disables Wordpress 2.2’s built-in widget support so that you can use your favorite widget plugin, such as Sidebar Modules. This is a great temporary solution to the current issue with Subtle not showing widgets correctly on WP 2.2 and is even better for [...]
Subtle and Wordpress 2.2
I haven’t had a chance to install 2.2 yet, but I’m hearing from a few people that the widget API changed so much in the latest version of Wordpress that a number of themes have broken widget support - including Subtle. I’ll be looking into the problem over the next few days. For [...]
I’m An Ubuntu Convert
A while back I wrote a series of posts on Shooting the Kids about how we moved my mom over to Ubuntu and how she really took to it. She’s still using it regularly, though her main desktop is now my old Mac Mini - which she really loves because of iTunes.
But here at [...]
How Much is Your Blog Worth?
While getting my nerd on at Shamus Young’s Twenty Sided blog (no - he doesn’t use Subtle), I noticed a link to a site that will tell you how much your blog is worth. I ran “Shooting the Kids” through this thing and it came up a little over 5K. “Not bad!” I [...]


