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Three things to add to every Wordpress theme function file

I develop a lot of wordpress sites and always try to customize the site with as few plugins as possible. Many people use plugins for something that can EASILY be done with a few lines of code in your themes functions.php file.
Here are three functions.php edits I use on every single new wordpress install:
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Grampy… what a good name.

Hayden Lacy was a wonderful husband, father, brother and friend. I’m sure each of you here today has something to share about how he touched your life. But for me … and Mark … and Glenda and Steve and Sarah. He was just Grampy.
It’s a little hard right now to imagine life without Grampy. He [...]

Two Ways to Use Google Analytics Better

Google Analytics provides GREAT data straight “out of the box”… I use it for every site I build. Recently – I started doing two new things with GA.

Tracking how effective specific ads (some regular ol’ plain text links too) were. We have a flash ad rotation on several of our sites … and I wanted to [...]

Cryptography Video Project

Exposition on James Sanborn’s Cyrillic Projector – a cryptography sculpture on the University of North Carolina Charlotte campus.

The Font Conference