Author Archives: jaye

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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Using Git for DNS and DHCP Config Files

Posted on January 24, 2014 by jaye

[master (root-commit) a8418bf] Added DNS zone files Committer: root <root@liminf03.motion.com> Your name and email address were configured automatically based on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate. You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly: git … Continue reading →

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Changing the Color of Links

Posted on January 18, 2014 by jaye

Using the ElegantThemes eBusiness theme, the default color for links did not stand out and links were hard to see. Resolved by making them red. In the style.css file, for the child theme, added the following line of code:

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Fun with mod_rewrite…

Posted on January 10, 2014 by jaye

Today I had to create some specific/generic rewrite rules. The idea was to allow “motion.com,”www.motion.com,” “www.motion.com/index.html,” and “motion.com/index.html” all go to an index (domain for sale) page. However, let everything else forward to “learninginmotion.com.” So URLs like “www.motion.com/products/index.html” would forward … Continue reading →

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Cleaning up…

Posted on January 10, 2014 by jaye

Today was the real start of the new year cleanup process. Logged into the InMotionHosting account and deleted the nightly backups, leaving the ones from the 1st of each month, and started moving them over to ShareA:IT Archives/Web Backups.

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