Today I release a new minimal Wordpress theme titled “Elegant Blog”. It’s meant to be a go-to theme for a content driven site, that aims to eliminate the need for some common plugins and be good to go right out of the box. It’s not designed to be flashy, just to showcase your words in a non-intrusive way that looks good at the same time. Oh, and there are options.
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One Wordpress plugin that almost everybody uses these days is one that lets you share your post on social bookmarking and social media websites. And with the way social media has exploded lately, they’d be silly not too. While plugins are great, they can also be bloaty slow loading, require updates and just be a bit of a hassle in general. Luckily it’s very easy to add social links to your Wordpress theme without a plugin, just using php and template tags.
So without further ado, here’s the code to add some popular social bookmarking links to your website without the use of a plugin:
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This is hardly news, as it’s been happening almost since lists have arrived (which was years ago in Internet time), but I figured I’d share my favourite Twitter tip:
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This post can also be called “How I Designed My Site” because this is a list of almost all the modifications I made to my default Thesis install. Please don’t just take all of my customizations, but rather learn from them. After reading through all of these you should get a basic understanding of Thesis Hooks, custom functions, and your custom.css file and also the knowledge to make some basic (and more advanced) hacks.
Here are 10 ways to make your Thesis site stand out from the rest:
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