Rick Beckman

Tag: blogging

  • Adding a Website Snapshot Shortcode to WordPress

    Adding a Website Snapshot Shortcode to WordPress

    There isn’t any­thing quite so bor­ing as view­ing web­sites full of links. Link. Descrip­tion. Link. Descrip­tion. Link. Descr— Well, you get the idea. If you have such a list on your web­site, you might seek to spice them up with screen­shots to give a bit of pop to fur­ther encour­age your users to fol­low the links. […]

  • How to Add a Site Name Shortcode to WordPress

    How to Add a Site Name Shortcode to WordPress

    A cos­mic cloud of gas­es con­dens­es under its own grav­i­ty, form­ing a star. Gen­er­a­tions upon gen­er­a­tions of sin­gle-celled organ­isms lead to mul­ti-cel­lu­lar com­plex life. And your hum­ble blog has grown beyond its sem­i­nal inspiration. Change hap­pens, and you don’t have to find your­self in a sit­u­a­tion where if you decide to change the name of […]

  • Raising My Daughter in a Broken World

    When I first set out six­teen or so years ago pub­lish­ing con­tent online, I did so as a naïve child, using what lit­tle of a home­page I could build to unite my chat room friends, to social­ize with a few local friends via guest­books, and to share a lit­tle bit about my interests. The skills […]

  • OpenHook, The Best Customization Manager Plugin for WordPress

    OpenHook, The Best Customization Manager Plugin for WordPress

    Customizing your WordPress site has never been easier with OpenHook, a free plugin which makes advanced customization far more accessible.

  • Now Featuring Tons of “New” Content

    After years of some of my old blog archives being pri­vate, I’ve decid­ed to import every­thing I can find (from four oth­er Word­Press instal­la­tions) into this one blog. I think this is proof I’m a glut­ton for pun­ish­ment. How much pun­ish­ment? There are near­ly fifty cat­e­gories now. Oh man, I had no idea how to orga­nize […]

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