tartanphoenix

Beer Review Rating System

It has been a good few years since I drank beer with any degree of regularity and so I am completely out of touch with what is available. When lockdown began in the UK I decided to sample the beers available from my local supermarkets. I’ll be concentrating on IPAs as these are what I have found myself drinking in recent years, mainly Brewdog’s Punk IPA and a range of since forgotten others drunk while at boardgame conventions. The rating scale I’ll be using for rating beer is derived from the board game rating scale over at boardgamegeek.

Outstanding – will always enjoy drinking and expect this will never change
Excellent – always enjoy drinking it
Very good – enjoy drinking and would suggest it
Good – usually willing to drink
Ok – will drink if in the mood
Average – take it or leave it
Not so good – maybe would drink this again if desperate
Bad – probably won’t drink this again
Very bad – won’t drink ever again
Awful – undrinkable

Beavertown Neck Oil

Fun creepy artwork on the can, but disappointing lack of blurb.

Initially tasted off, but quickly realised that was because I had recently brushed my teeth!

After this initial fumble I found that this was a really tasty session IPA and at 4.3% it didn’t knock me sideways like some of the stronger ones do.

9/10

CSS Gradients

A good website for generating css gradients is https://cssgradient.io/

To apply them to a your WordPress site I recommend the plugin Simple CSS from the author of GeneratePress

Stock Image Resources

Here are a few sources of free high-definition photographs that are free to use, both for personal and commercial projects, and without the need for attribution.

Pixabay

Pixabay is one of the largest sources of free photos, illustrations and videos. There are over a million images available for download.

Unsplash

Over 200,000 free high-resolution photographs from a large community of photographers.

Pexels

Another growing collection of free high-resolution photographs

Photograph of person in rabbit costume on bridge

Gratisography

Quirky selection of photography by Ryan McGuire.

LibreShot

Large collection of free to use high resolution photographs by Martin Vorel.

Colour Palettes

Generate a colour palette

coolors.co is an excellent free resource for exploring and generating colour palettes. I recommend creating an account there so that you can save palettes for future reference.

Customising the colour palettes within wordpress

Once you have decided on a colour palette for your website Using a plugin like Code Snippets it is then possible to add in code to customise the colour palettes available in WordPress

Customise Palette in GeneratePress

The following code will customise the theme colour palette in GeneratePress. You can have a variable number of colours, but they are only given the same amount of space regardless so if you specify too many the palette blocks will become very small. Seven or eight colour blocks is about right.

add_filter( 'generate_default_color_palettes', 'tp_custom_color_palettes' );
function tp_custom_color_palettes( $palettes ) {
	$palettes = array(
		'#000000',
		'#264653',
		'#2A9D8F',
		'#E9C46A',
		'#F4A261',
		'#E76F51',
		'#FFFFFF',
	);
	
	return $palettes;
}

Customise Palette in Gutenberg Blocks

The code below will customise the colour palettes within the Gutenberg Block Editor in WordPress. As far as I know there is no restriction on the number of colours that can be specified here.

add_action( 'after_setup_theme', function() {
    add_theme_support( 'editor-color-palette', array(
		array(
            'name'  => __( 'Black' ),
            'slug'  => 'Black',
            'color' => '#000000',
        ),
        array(
            'name'  => __( 'Charcoal' ),
            'slug'  => 'Charcoal',
            'color' => '#264653',
        ),
        array(
            'name'  => __( 'Persian Green' ),
            'slug'  => 'PersianGreen',
            'color' => '#2A9D8F',
        ),
        array(
            'name'  => __( 'Orange Yellow Crayola' ),
            'slug'  => 'OrangeYellowCrayola',
            'color' => '#E9C46A',
        ),
        array(
            'name'  => __( 'Sandy Brown' ),
            'slug'  => 'SandyBrown',
            'color' => '#F4A261',
        ),
		array(
            'name'  => __( 'Burnt Sienna' ),
            'slug'  => 'BurntSienna',
            'color' => '#E76F51',
        ),
		array(
            'name'  => __( 'White' ),
            'slug'  => 'White',
            'color' => '#FFFFFF',
        ),
    ) );
} );