Technobabble from a .Net developer on the loose…
Tips & tricks for WordPress. From trivial beginner’s problems to more advanced topics .
I just changed the theme of the blog since I got tired of the old one, and also because I’m working on a post where the old theme’s low width became a problem. The new theme is called
Catch Responsive and I really like it so far. It works much better on mobile devices and is very configurable.
This is what the old theme looked like, I thought it would be nice to have a record of it to look back on in the future.
You may have noticed that the blog has been unavailable a few days. As you’re reading this, it’s obviously back online now again 🙂
I actually have no idea what happened. My web hosting service provider claims to not have done anything, and I have not messed with anything either. Strange…
If you’re reading this and have the same problem, it might be useful to know what I did to bring the blog back from the dead:
Let’s hope things will work now. This is actually the first breakdown I’ve had. So far I’m satified with WordPress, it does what it does well, with no fuss.
/Emil
One supremely annoying problem I had the first days of using WordPress was that it kept on “beautifying” my code samples. For example replacing normal quotes with curly ones. For normal text that’s okay I guess, but for code it isn’t!
For example:
string s = “this is a string”;
Luckily however, this can be fixed by using using a plugin called Preserve Code Formatting by Scott Reilly. Very useful!
Just install it and after that WordPress will keep it’s dirty hands off content within <code>-tags.
The code sample above now reads:
string s = "this is a string";