Category Archives: WordPress

WP sites

I’ve been a front-end developer for more than a few years but until recently only occasionally worked a little with WordPress. Lately my interest in WP has grown.

WP Excerpts

The question of how to use ‘excerpts’ in WP Posts has come up a couple of times. On finchurstdental.com for example, there are (or will be) a series of Posts with accompanying videos, and it would certainly be non-optimal to provide a blog index loading multiple embedded videos. So I considered using the ‘Excerpt’ field […]

‘mailto’ link in main menu

In a recent update of OTL, one of the changes I made, in the interest of simplification, was to ditch a contact form and instead simply add a ‘mailto’ link in the main menu. I didn’t expect that adding a ‘mailto’ link in WP’s menu editor – as a ‘custom link’ – would be even […]

div overlapping scrollbar

I had been working on the main menu in both OTL & the wp, and noticed that the horizontal spacing of the menu items differed. Then I noticed that the header was extending over the scrollbar in the static site OTL (but not in wp).