Half-Elf on Tech

Thoughts From a Professional Lesbian

Tag: lgbtq

  • LGBT+Allies At WordCamp US – 2017

    LGBT+Allies At WordCamp US – 2017

    Yet again, Tracy and I have gone a little insane and we’re throwing another fabulously big queer party at WordCamp US. This year the venue is Nashville, which made an interesting turn as Tracy’s in Philly and I’m in SoCal. We drafted some local help and, after a series of emails, phone calls, and one text in all caps, we are happy to announce our second ever LGBT+ Party.

    Friday, December 1, at Suzy Wong’s House of Yum.

    Grab your tickets now before they’re gone!

    And we’re still looking for sponsors to cover the cost of the food and drinks, so please contact us if you’d like to chip in.

    Back for the second amazing year is the faaaabulous LGBT+Allies Meetup for WordCamp US!

    WordPress as a community has been welcoming and inclusive to people of all backgrounds, sexual orientations and gender identities. To celebrate our wonderful diversity, we’re bringing the party to Nashville, for an evening of honky tonking at a brothel of epicurean delight.

    This year, the party will be at Suzy Wong’s House of Yum, located in the heart of Nashville’s trendiest alternative night life scene. Suzy Wong’s House of Yum is a creation of Chef Arnold Myint (and his alter-ego Suzy Wong). Prepare yourself for a cornucopia of vegetarian friendly Asian delights, creative cocktails, sleek décor, and of course seriously campy music.

    We will have the entire venue to ourselves with delicious food and drinks!

    But we wouldn’t be able to bring you all this without the help of our amazing sponsors. In 2016, thanks to the help of our sponsors we not only had a private room, but drinks, food, and amazing exclusive t-shirts. The event is fully funded by the community, and all help is welcome.

    Venue Sponsor: DreamHost

    Sponsors

    If you would like to support the community and sponsor this event, please contact us.

    We hope to see you there!

  • Make WordPress Gay

    Make WordPress Gay

    In September, WordPress.com changed their admin bar from the normal black or blue to a rainbow color. Why?

    Australia will be holding a national survey on marriage equality over the next two months. To show our support as a company for marriage equality, we’re showing the rainbow bar in the WordPress.com admin bar to all logged-in Australian visitors. You can read more about the marriage equality campaign here: http://www.equalitycampaign.org.au/

    And this was super cool. They’d done it before when Gay Marriage was legalized in the US and it’s much appreciated as a show of solidarity. But… The menu bar only shows if you’re visiting WordPress.com from Australia. This causes two problems for me:

    1) I’m in the US
    2) I self host

    Don’t worry, there’s a solution.

    The ‘Official’ Solution

    The code for what WordPress.com does can be found on the Github repository for Calypso. But that’s all mixed in with a lot of extra ‘stuff’ that has to be there for their services, like geo-location and so on.

    The rest of us don’t need that, and since Gary (the fellow who wrote the ticket) is a friend of mine, I asked him if the code was available. It is.

    Rainbow Bar Code

    <?php
    
    /*
     * Plugin Name: Rainbow Bar!
     */
    
    function rainbow_bar() {
    ?>
    	<style type="text/css">
    		#wpadminbar {
    			background: linear-gradient(
    				to bottom,
    				#e24c3e 0%,
    				#e24c3e 16.66667%,
    				#f47d3b 16.66667%,
    				#f47d3b 33.33333%,
    				#fdb813 33.33333%,
    				#fdb813 50%,
    				#74bb5d 50%,
    				#74bb5d 66.66667%,
    				#38a6d7 66.66667%,
    				#38a6d7 83.33333%,
    				#8c7ab8 83.33333%,
    				#8c7ab8 100% );
    		}
    
    		#wpadminbar,
    		#wpadminbar .quicklinks > ul > li {
    			-webkit-box-shadow: unset;
    			-moz-box-shadow: unset;
    			box-shadow: unset;
    		}
    
    		#wpadminbar .ab-top-menu > li > a {
    			background-color: rgba( 50, 55, 60, .85 );
    		}
    	</style>
    <?php
    }
    add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'rainbow_bar' );
    

    Install that to get this:

    Rainbow Pride WP Admin Bar

    Small Changes

    In order to make it look ‘right’ for me, I changed two things

    I removed this:

    	#wpadminbar .ab-top-menu > li > a {
    		background-color: rgba( 50, 55, 60, .85 );
    	}
    

    And I added this:

    	#wpadminbar .ab-item, #wpadminbar a.ab-item, #wpadminbar > #wp-toolbar span.ab-label, #wpadminbar > #wp-toolbar span.noticon,
    	#wpadminbar .ab-icon, #wpadminbar .ab-icon:before, #wpadminbar .ab-item:before, #wpadminbar .ab-item:after {
    		color: #000;
    	}
    

    Caveats

    Even with my changes, the color for my Jetpack stats looks wrong. It’s too washed out. And that’s because it’s apparently hardcoded into the plugin in a way I can’t overwrite. I can live with that problem.

    The other issue is that this will only show for logged in users (unless you’re using some code to always show the admin bar). That begs the question, of course, of why would you do this if only logged in users?

    If you’re running a queer themed website that happens to use WordPress … like, say, Autostraddle, then this makes perfect sense. For me, it just makes me feel happy to see that pride rainbow all the time.