Twenty Ten

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Matt Thomas — Sat, 01 May 2010 19:19:38 +0000

The Great Wave off Kanagawa (神奈川沖浪裏 Kanagawa Oki Nami Ura, lit. “Under a Wave off Kanagawa”) is a famous woodblock print by the Japanese artist Hokusai. It was published in 1832 (Edo Period) as the first in Hokusai’s series 36 Views of Mount Fuji and is his most famous work. It depicts an enormous wave threatening boats near the Japanese prefecture of Kanagawa. As in all the other prints in the series, Mount Fuji can be seen in the background. While sometimes assumed to be a tsunami, the wave is more likely to be a large okinami. (Japanese “ocean wave”) — Wikipedia

WYSIWYRG

Matt Thomas — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:05:18 +0000

What you see is what you really get. I stumbled upon this brilliant tip from Andrew Ozz today:

Things like typefaces, headings, image padding and borders, etc. can easily be set by the current theme making the visual editor… more WYSIWYG. All it takes is a stylesheet and a small function in the theme’s functions.php file.

Say what? I had no idea, so I decided I had to give this a try for 2010. The result?

Here’s the HTML Elements page from this site, as seen from within the visual editor:

You get a great sense of the way your text will interact with images when you’ve got a little bit of your theme right inside WordPress. Here’s the Image Alignment and Styles page:

Pretty cool, right? Using the visual editor with the 2010 theme now means getting a perfect replica of your blog’s theme when you’re writing. If you’re like me, constantly clicking “Preview” to check how text wraps around images or whether that size headline will work, you can finally break that addiction. Big thanks to Andrew Ozz for the helpful hint.

Quebec

Matt Thomas — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:33:22 +0000

This post uses a post thumbnail to display its own custom header. Check out the permalink! Sed consequat sagittis dignissim. Suspendisse dolor velit, semper non vestibulum at, vestibulum quis risus. Vivamus adipiscing eleifend quam a mollis. Nullam sollicitudin dignissim ornare. Duis a purus risus. Vestibulum auctor libero commodo erat euismod viverra. Suspendisse malesuada, lectus in bibendum pretium, est libero hendrerit sapien, sit amet convallis dolor nunc ac massa.

Valid HTML5

Matt Thomas — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:22:44 +0000

The theme now passes validation as HTML5. The calendar widget and gallery shortcode generate HTML that do not validate and should be addressed in core — but a default install will now validate. (Updated, see comments.)

Flowers in the yard

Matt Thomas — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:16:47 +0000

Custom styles for posts in category “gallery” show a single thumbnail and either the post text or a custom excerpt, if one is specified. If the post text is used, a link like the one output by the more tag is appended. If the text is really long it should just wrap around the thumbnail. The automatically-generated excerpt should be short enough that a wrap never occurs. When it does, though, it should be graceful.

These are some pictures of flowers in our garden, taken in 2006.