Advanced TinyMCE is a useful plugin; it lets you add all of the buttons that WordPress “hides.” When you need to add ‘Word-like’ WYSIWIG editing to a WordPress site, it’s probably your best choice. But most of the time, giving your users a ‘Word-like’ interface is a bad idea. (Admit it!) Read More
How To: Allow Syntax Highlighting in WordPress Comments
I suppose this could be a plugin, but it seems too simple for all that…
With SyntaxHighlighter Evolved installed, add the following PHP snippet to your functions.php file to allow syntax highlighting in your WordPress comments: Read More
Who's Behind Outta Bounds?
Hi! My name is Esther S White and this is my blog, Outta Bounds.
I'm an artist, sister, dog-lover, bike-rider, vegetarian, quilter, and enthusiastic 'diy-er'… I make my living as a worker-owner of Ronin Tech Collective and as a freelance web developer & graphic designer. I live in Brooklyn, NY with my husband Alex Kahn and my dog Zevi.
“Designing for the web” or “Ouch! My double-click finger hurts”
I recently had the opportunity to watch a client look over some site comps. (Ellen, the client, is a local artist. I have been teaching her to use her digital camera and Photoshop to document her artwork. She knows that I also do web design and wanted my opinion on her new site. I agreed to take a look, and learned something in the process.) Ellen’s designer sent her a zipped folder as an email attachment. This is where the trouble begins… Read More »