Monthly Archives: February 2014

Nexus Theme: Widen Widget Sidebar

Posted on February 20, 2014 by jaye

Needed to widen the widget sidebar to fit a 300px wide AdSense ad. Added the following code to Custom CSS:

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Nexus Theme: Changed Line Height for Bullets in Widgets

Posted on February 19, 2014 by jaye

This code finally did it (again in Custom CSS): The “before” item handles the location of the bullet. Otherwise, alignment between the bullet and the text of off.

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Nexus Theme: Added Pinterest to Social Buttons

Posted on February 19, 2014 by jaye

Created two 24×19 images of the Pinterest “P” one gray and one white (for hover). Added the following code to Custom CSS Added the following code to header.php, placed it between the RSS and G+ buttons:

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Nexus Theme: Modifications to Home Page

Posted on February 19, 2014 by jaye

Reduced Headline size by adding: to Custom CSS in General Settings Reduced leading in Excerpt text by adding: to Custom CSS in General Settings Changed the length of the excerpt by making the following modification to recent_module.php: Replaced with

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Optimal Image Sizes

Posted on February 14, 2014 by jaye

Nexus Theme: For featured slider (at least): 582×520 For thumbnails (at least): 160×160 For header images (at least): 1400×400

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Remove Ellipses (…) from Post Title

Posted on February 14, 2014 by jaye

Open the file defaultcat.php and search for this line: Replace it by this:

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Background Image Behind Header

Posted on February 14, 2014 by jaye

Please go to Epanel > General and at the bottom of that , you will see Custom CSS box. Please put this code there

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