Being a widescreen user, the narrow width of the WordPress Codex drives me nuts. It literally uses half the width of my screen. So, I threw together a couple lines of CSS a year or two back and added them to Stylish to make the site wider as well as to remove those “Edit” links that show up next to headers when logged in (I don’t like them). Please mind you I’m not a designer and there’s probably a better way to do this (suggestions welcome), but it works (at least for me), so whatever. 🙂

[code lang=”css”]@namespace url(‘http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml’);

@-moz-document domain(‘codex.wordpress.org’) {
.wrapper { width: 1400px !important; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; }
.col-10 { width: 1200px !important; }
.editsection, .toctoggle { display: none !important; }
}[/code]

Note you will need to change those widths a bit as I couldn’t get it working properly using a flexible width (due to the sidebar)’

Twitter Tools is an awesome plugin. I use it on multiple sites, including this one, to automatically tweet new posts.

While the “New blog post:” prefix is good for this site where I also do tweets of my own, it’s not so good for Twitter accounts that are only used for tweeting new posts, such as my FinalGear.com Twitter account. So here’s a tiny little plugin that will allow you to change or remove the prefix from the tweets that Twitter Tools makes.

[code lang=”php”]tweet_prefix = ‘Check out my cool blog post’;

// Changes tweet format to: “PREFIX: URL – TITLE”
// $aktt->tweet_format = $aktt->tweet_prefix . ‘: %2$s – %1$s’;

// Changes tweet format to: “TITLE URL”
// $aktt->tweet_format = ‘%1$s %2$s’;
}

?>[/code]

Copy/paste the above into a text file (enable plain text mode first if need be) and then rename it to something.php (twitter-tools-tweaks.php will do) and stick it in your plugins folder. Activate it and you’ll be good to go.