Posted on 3/24/16:
@Kathryn and Ola, thanks for the tweaks and the child theme! I hope that Ola is dumping the code back to Sarah [https:/
I particularly liked the careful thought to keep the theme's buttons consistent as well as the change from 3 columns of products instead of 4. The only tweak I might further suggest is the color of the "add to cart", "proceed to checkout", and "pay" buttons (see http:/
Other than that, I've looked through most portions fairly carefully and everything seems to be working as I'd expect it to without any glaring issues/errors. My thanks to you, Sarah, and Ola for the beautiful work that went into this as well as the after-the-fact adjustments.
@stephenwrks, A few things in the theme that you might consider taking advantage of and using on your current page are increasing the featured image opacity (25, 50, 75, or 100%) of the photos using the theme customizer/theme options/panels 1-8. This will let you "brighten" up your page without making the foreground text difficult to read and highlight the beauty of your photos.
You might also consider creating a secondary menu called "social" in the menu interface with custom items being links to your social media sites and then in the customizer/menu section setting the footer menu to use this menu. Then your social media bugs will appear in the footer of the page rather than into the second widget where it's at now. This will help streamline and balance out your page a bit (See the Custom Menus section at https:/
Given the general purpose behind the wonderful design of the <a href="https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/pique/">Pique Theme</a>, I'm kind of surprised and shocked that it isn't WooCommerce compatible out of the box.
I'm aware of solutions like https:/
Has anyone done this already that can share code?
Brief reply to: Is majoring in liberal arts a mistake for students? https:/
What magisterial sounding pontification! Sadly, it’s not much different than the early philosophies of Socrates and Plato or many of the other early progenitors of the humanities and liberal arts. I get the impression that the author hasn’t read much philosophy and has not much grounding in the liberal arts. While I agree with the spirit in which the piece is written, I find it deplorable that there aren’t what should be obligatory mentions of words like trivium, quadrivium, or philosophy, but rather the corpus of work in which the author seems steeped is that of only modern day authors of popular science (Pinker, Gladwell, Kahneman, et. al.) who have some interesting viewpoints, but ones which require at least a grounding in the liberal arts to pick apart. Several times Khosla demeans the liberal arts and uses the repeated example that a reader should be able to pick apart and think critically about articles in The Economist. To do this requires a knowledge of logic and rhetoric which are two of the pillars of what? — yes, the liberal arts!
He also seems unaware of big movements within the humanities and sciences like Bill Gates and David Christian’s Big History Project which are going a long way towards providing a more balanced education in history, economics, physics, chemistry, biology and evolution. I find here, no prima facie evidence of his knowledge of Thomas Kuhn or Karl Popper, which might help win me to his argument. In all, aside from the passing references to one or two recent works, this entire argument is not much different from many that could have been written at the beginning of the industrial revolution. How blind so many must be to seemingly think there’s something new here.
Most appalling to me here is that the author doesn’t seem to give even a passing nod or small wink to C.P. Snow or “The Two Cultures” [http:/
Yes, we certainly need more emphasis on the quadrivium portion of the liberal arts, and in particular mathematics and critical thinking which seem to have been left by the wayside. It is deplorable that the highest extent of mathematics that 99% of college students are exposed to terminates in the 17th century for the most part. Sadly, many college students are left without the ability to think critically and deeply, not to mention the hordes of students in America who barely make it through high school and don’t attend college. One also only needs to skim through recent issues of Nature [http:/
Yes, we need far, far more, but alas, this poor article only touches the tip of the issue and it sadly only does so with less than half of the picture.
Use Facebook, but don't like the design? Facebook Flat plugin for chrome simplifies the interface. https:/
Wish I could have gone to Urban Design and Complexity talk. Looking forward to the full paper. #Complexity
Kudos on his attempt to abstract out the engineering problem. It appears that he's taken very literally the words of Claude Shannon in paragraph two of "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" from The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 27, pp. 379–423, 623–656, July, October, 1948. [http:/
"The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point. Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with certain physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem. The significant aspect is that the actual message is one selected from a set of possible messages. The system must be designed to operate for each possible selection, not just the one which will actually be chosen since this is unknown at the time of design."
Though to your point, he not only missed the boat on the semantics of the lemon, but it's also technically a glass and not a cup. At least he didn't give you a lemon donut, or you'd have known for sure that he was a topologist.
Admittedly, it's incumbent upon users to double check, but the DRASTIC change from the old theme to the new is really TOO much of a change. As a theme publisher, you really should have created a totally new theme with a different name. Though the new design is lovely in and of itself, with a new name, it also would have likely benefited by not having the old one-star reviews or the support forum issues which are likely to scare new samplers/users of the new theme away.
You're also likely to have even worse problems from users who don't double-check to see the changes/updates and have issues. I'd imagine that many who had the older version may want to go back to the original version 1.2.3.
Though there were a few quirks with the old version (< v1.2.3), it was both lovely and very functional, particularly within the Education space. This new theme doesn't really have any type of educational feel at all and instead seems more like a plain vanilla WP blog format.
For the sake of the community, I honestly hope that you republish the old version under its original name and then republish v2.0 under a new name. If you do this, I'll come back and give the original a 5 star review along with some notes about how to navigate the home page slider that seemed to be one of the bigger issues in the original.
David, Congrats on officially putting your plugins up on Wordpress!
My WP skills are certainly below that of yours, but I applaud you for making the effort on behalf of the IndieWeb. I'm happy to help test/bang on your plugins and give feedback, (and If I can to delve through the code to help there too occasionally).
One thing I notice about post kinds in the 1.3.0 version is that the number of post kinds is much smaller compared to the circa 1.2.X releases. Did you deprecate them? temporarily? while you work out issues on each?
On syndication links I notice that the resultant icons (on your site as well as mine) shift over a few pixels when hovering over them - is this by design or a quirk in my (our) CSS perhaps?
Congratulations again and keep up the good work!