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My First WordPress Shortcode

Up until early this morning, I’ve resisted using shortcodes in my WordPress blogs.

But this morning I built my very own first custom shortcode. Sure, it’s simple and short and probably painfully plain. So?

I plunked it in my active theme’s functions.php file and it works great! I know that by putting it there I’m limiting its application to my current theme. If I change themes, I’ll have to add the code to that theme’s functions.php. Read it all

WordPress Is Stealing My Title!

This regards the home page here at Ain’t Complicated.

It’s a static page. Custom built. By me. On my own WordPress Twenty Ten child theme.

It works according to design. Except for the <title> meta tag.

Here is the pertinent portion of the custom page template: Read it all

Justify a Headline With CSS

How to do it with only a div, an H1, and a span.

So you want your headline to run the width of the body text.

That seems easy enough to do. Just use the text-align:justify CSS property on your H1. Like this, for instance: Read it all