Remember The Milk

by anna on January 13, 2010

in of note

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remember the milk

Remember The Milk is an online tool for getting things done that probably everyone already knows about except for me. Remember the Milk can track your tasks and to-do lists on its own, but the Twitter app is especially useful: it allows you to add things to your to-do list directly from Twitter. Once it is set up, all you have to do is @reply to Remember the Milk to add a new item. As much as I like Google Calendar, I don’t think it boasts any way of updating that is this simple.

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4 Different Ways To Change Previous And Next Links In Thesis

by anna on January 11, 2010

in CSS, Futzing, Thesis Theme, wordpress

By default, Thesis has the option to feature previous/next post links on single entry pages. You can activate or deactivate this option through the Thesis Options panel on your WordPress Dashboard. Here’s the code that is controlling how it looks in the picture above. 


.prev_next {
border-style:solid;
color:#666666;
letter-spacing:1px;
text-transform:uppercase;
}

.prev_next a {
text-decoration: none;
}

.prev_next a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}

I can style this section with CSS to make it look different. Here are some examples.

  1. Make the previous and next links appear on different sides of the page.

    To get the above effect, add the following code to custom.css.
    
.custom div.prev_next p {
  float:right;
}

.custom div.prev_next p.previous {
  float:left;
}

  2. Change the color of the text to match the links. If I want the text to match my links, I can change the color code in the above css.
    .prev_next {
border-style:solid;
color:#ff6600;
letter-spacing:1px;
text-transform:uppercase;
}

  3. Move the links to before the post on single post pages. If I want to move the posts around, I can insert some code into custom_functions.php as follows:

    remove_action('thesis_hook_after_content', 'thesis_prev_next_posts');
add_action('thesis_hook_before_content', 'thesis_prev_next_posts');

  4. Remove the previous/next links on the home page only. You can remove the previous and next links through the Thesis Options Panel, but if you want to remove them from the home page *only*, insert this code into custom_functions.php:

    
function no_home_post_nav() {
if (is_home())
  remove_action('thesis_hook_after_content', 'thesis_post_navigation');
}
add_action('thesis_hook_before_content','no_home_post_nav');

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