Over the last weeks I spent some time to get the blog work­ing again, after I screwed it up.  I started by mak­ing a child theme of the pop­u­lar iNove theme by NeoEase. A few days later I had to apply some fixes for Inter­net Explorer users. When­ever I had some spare time I changed a few set­tings and tried oth­ers. For instance, Opera users would see strange sym­bols some­where in the text. That’s because wp-Typography has an option named “Enable wrap­ping after hard hyphens” which adds zero-width spaces after hard hyphens. Opera evi­dently doesn’t like this, so I turned if off for the time being.

I deleted a few plug-ins and tried a few oth­ers. I now have a new con­tact form (Con­tact Form 7) and I’m quite happy with Anti­spam Bee which does an excel­lent job. In addi­tion, I edited the Embed­ded Video plug-in to enable embed­ding videos from a few more sites and changed a few para­me­ters. On the other hand, I cleaned up the Socia­ble plug-in and changed a few things in my CSS file to make the site more pleas­ant to look at. Right now, I’m plan­ning to change my theme but I’d have to take a closer look at pos­si­ble can­di­dates first, so that may take me a while.

Now that these issues are out of the way I can return to blog­ging once again. Stay tuned for more posts!