Alien hunters are searching for signatures emitted from ‘interstellar beacons’ using telescopes

If aliens are using an interstellar beacon to contact Earth, scientists at the SETI Institute are going to find it. The team believes advanced lifeforms have placed a transmitter in the center of the galaxy and are developing techniques to detect signatures from the technology. SETI scientist are developing a system that ‘piggybacks’ off the … Read more

Survey of billions of stars in the Milky Way ‘could have captured signs of intelligent life’

Survey of billions of stars in the Milky Way ‘could have captured signs of intelligent life’ — and amateur astronomers are being encouraged to search for them SETI Institute experts are developing state-of-the-art ways to detect signs of life These ‘technosignatures’ might be laser emissions or structures orbiting stars The search will be piggybacking on the Very … Read more

Canadian researchers devise new plan to convert overpopulated green crabs plastic

Canadian researchers will transform shells from the invasive and cannibalistic European green crab into a biodegradable plastic for party cups and cutlery Invasive European green crabs have taken over a Nova Scotia national park A McGill University chemist has started a program to turn the crabs into plastic Her team will harvest a chemical called … Read more

Instagram testing a ‘Latest Posts’ feature that mimics the platform’s original layout

Instagram is testing a ‘Latest Posts’ feature that mimics the platform’s original layout by letting users see the newest posts first ‘Latest Posts’ is a recently discovered test from Instagram The prototype lets users organize posts so that the most recent appears first This hearkens back to how the platform was originally designed Instagram says … Read more

A guide to styling and making Dispatch your own

Dispatch is a Magazine style blog for your new website. Each of its features have been designed and built using GeneratePress and WP Show Posts. As expected of a Flint Skin Site it uses Custom CSS. At over 350 lines it is recommended, but not necessary, to move the Additional CSS to a Child Theme … Read more

Using WP Show Posts

Adding post lists and grids to your Site couldn’t be easier than with the WP Show Posts plugin. Dispatch uses the Free version to display posts on the Front page and in the Sidebars. Of course with a little Flint Skin CSS treatment. Head off to Dashboard > WP Show Posts > All Lists. Within … Read more

Hooks – Custom Theme Elements

Dispatch uses a few Hook Elements to create some Custom Elements in the site. All of them provide dynamic output and should not require any changes to their content. For more info on the Hooke Element read here: Hooks Element Overview Custom Post Navigation Adding a custom featured image post navigation at the foot of … Read more

Page and Post Heroes

Page Heroes are those big bold images and headlines you find at the top of your posts and pages. They sit just below the Site Header and added using the Header Element module, when activated provides the Elements menu in Dashboard > Appearance > Elements Dispatch has two Header Elements in place. But you can … Read more

How to change the Custom Colors

Changing Colors in Dispatch are mainly done via the Theme Customizer. Certain elements such as Page Heros are controlled within the Header Element and are covered in that article. There are a few colors that are controlled by CSS. The rules for them are found in the Customizer > Additional CSS: Primary Navigation Hairline Border … Read more