All Things Anne

Last Saturday you know we went to the convention, well, while we were sitting in the back, and we had taken sign language classes for a few years (taught by a neighbor lady of ours), so there’s just some signs we use frequently, two of them happening to be “Mom” and “Dad”. Somebody used the sign for Mom or Dad (I don’t remember which), so I was teaching Jay and Abby the signs. Abby wouldn’t try, but Jay got them down.

Tonight at dinner, Jay said “This is Mom!” and signed the sign for “pig”. Whoops!

Meanwhile, Abby knew the sign for Dad and Mom, for real!

Of course, then Joe said the sign for “cool” meant “Joe” and the sign for “pig” meant “Eric”! And Eric was telling Jay a thumbs-up was Eric and two thumbs up was his full name!

I must say, this is a great article for women of all ages (written by Stacy McDonald) who are striving to follow after Christ!

Excerpt:

Recently, in a department store with my children, I noticed a mother shopping with her teenaged daughter. The daughter”s attire made my heart sink. It was not the typical, tight, low-slung blue jeans she wore, nor the clingy t-shirt that revealed her midriff that made me shake my head, although they were noticeable enough. What grieved me most were the ironic words emblazoned across her chest: “What Would Jesus Do?” Read Full Post — Walking Billboards

If you’re like me and you have multiple WordPress themes, you know how hard it is to have to update every single sidebar to change a link or so on. I have two sidebars, which I edit semi-regularly, so I know how difficult that is! Previously, I’d just link them in every theme to the sidebar files in the default theme, but when I changed my default theme…then what?

I figured there had to be a better way, so I searched my WordPress admin panel, and came across Manage > Files, which somehow I hadn’t been there before! (And I usually poke through every link in my admin panel pretty frequently!) There, I saw the list of recently used files, and the list of common files. Well, I got the bright idea to put my sidebar files in the common files list! So, I opened templates.php (found in wp-admin), and looked until I found something familiar.

<?php $common_files = array('index.php', '.htaccess', 'my-hacks.php' );
$old_files = array('wp-layout.css', 'wp-comments.php', 'wp-comments-popup.php' );

I just added in the names of my files, which I uploaded to my root, and voila! Now, I just have to link all my templates to get the sidebars from my root dir, and I only have one place to change them, no matter what theme! Yay me!

Thanks to Elliot Swan’s Postable to make that code post-friendly!