Just a quick note here that I’ll close I Code Your Design at the end of this month. The service will of course continue but I think it doesn’t really need a separate domain to host it. Will update the URL after I’ve done the migration.

Yoren Chang

I’m a senior web developer helping clients build their websites to grow businesses. Currently I’m based in Taipei, Taiwan.

I write things about WordPress, AngularJS and life. Whenever you’d like to find someone to talk about these topics, just get in touch!

Today I changed the theme here from Ryu to Higgs by Codestag. This is the first time I bought a premium theme from Envato. I choose very carefully that I’ve followed the works by Codestag for a while. And somehow they conviced me.

Now with Higgs I only changed the color and widgets then left everything else by default. It looks almost as I expected. Just it requires the Jetpack to display the site logo, which is the plugin I’m allergic to, so I would rather to give up the beautiful logo for a while… until next time I change the theme again.

As most beautiful themes, Higgs also requires a hero image for each post, it’s optional but without it, the first post would be sticky to the header area. I’m a little uncomfortable with it but it’s Friday so I’ll leave it that way.

I hope everything gets well and you can still enjoy the reading here. If not, just shoot me an email: yoren [at] 1fix.io. I’ll see what I can do for you.

Cheers.

Updated July, 20: I just found the style of Gists is broken in Chrome. For example the gist below:

The indentation behaves well in Firefox and Safari, but acts weird in Chrome. Any idea?

Updated July, 20, part-2: I can’t believe it’s the text-rendering broke the theme! After this modification, things go well again!

body {
	text-rendering: auto;
	-webkit-font-smoothing: auto;
}

Yoren Chang

I’m a senior web developer helping clients build their websites to grow businesses. Currently I’m based in Taipei, Taiwan.

I write things about WordPress, AngularJS and life. Whenever you’d like to find someone to talk about these topics, just get in touch!

Today I pushed the first release of Hello Emoji to the WordPress.org, which means we closed 2 milestones at once, what a great day!

After my previous post and a post from WPTavern, we got some great feedbacks, one of them is from Dave Warfel, he suggested the setting should make more sense to be on the Discussion Settings page, I opened an issue and the team agreed with Dave, so I pushed a commit to move the setting accordingly.

The second feedback is directly from a GitHub pull request, Ram forked Hello Emoji and optimised images with kraken.io, a web service to help us saved the images size up to 60%. It’s our first pull request from the community, and it’s really good to know people would take time to check out our project and improve it.

There’s a trivia about Hello Emoji I’d like to share. @jahvi opened an issue to report that some emojis seemed missing in the images folder we got from the jQuery plugins we used. I spent some time and figured out there are 3 emojis missing in the GitHub API. If you’re interested, those 3 are: flipper, loud_sound and night_with_stars. We currently remove these 3 from Hello Emoji, to make sure the UX is consistent. I also filed a report to GitHub, the staff replied a thank you email but didn’t say if this may or may not get fixed.

Hello Emoji is the way WPCollab says Hello to the world. Thanks to everyone who keeps an eye on this project. Maybe you watch / star / fork it, or tweet / share / blog about it, we appreciate that and your comments will definitely make it even better.

Just go to download Hello Emoji and happy blogging with these emojis: :+1: :smiling_imp: :facepunch: :cake: :zap:

Yoren Chang

I’m a senior web developer helping clients build their websites to grow businesses. Currently I’m based in Taipei, Taiwan.

I write things about WordPress, AngularJS and life. Whenever you’d like to find someone to talk about these topics, just get in touch!