https://github.com/jed/140bytes/wiki/Byte-saving-techniques

If engineers and UX designers never deviated from familiar conventions, we wouldn’t have the spin-wheel of the old iPods, or even a mouse. In fact, most of the great interfaces we have today are the result of deviating from that which is familiar. I remember when my old iPod first froze up – how do I shut it off, or restart it? There’s no power button, no tiny pin-hole to jam a needle into, nothing. It took a trip online to figure out how to restart one, but that didn’t damage the device’s reputation. Even today, iPads aren’t super easy to shut off – they require pressing multiple buttons simultaneously and swiping controls – but again, who is complaining? Adam Kinney has more to share on the Windows 8, and the proverbial Mother’s experience: http://adamkinney.com/blog/2012/03/15/my-mom-wont-care-about-the-windows-8-start-button/

With regards to the “shutdown button” being “one-click,” it is. Granted, once you see that button, you have to select which action you want it to perform, which another click. I’m sorry for any confusion, but I only meant to suggest that this buttons reach isn’t far. I agree though, it’s shrouded in mystery, being hidden in the charms which aren’t immediately visible themselves without knowing which screen region to place your mouse, or knowing which side of the tablet to swipe in from. But I sincerely don’t think this will be a problem – look at the types of people who use iPads, Kindles, and more. It takes one curious question to a friend or child, “How do I turn it off?” In most devices, you won’t need to. But once somebody shows you (especially on a tablet), shutting down Windows 8 will be a breeze.

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When it comes to UI design there has to be a visual hint as to how to do things. If you’ve never used a particular system then you don’t know that sliding your finger to the right causes a settings pane to show up, or hovering your mouse over something for two seconds causes extra options to appear, or moving your mouse to a particular part of the screen causes the system menu to appear. Without some point of reference, a tutorial, an easy-access help file, or someone to show you what to do, it may as well not exist.

Once you know what the options are and they’ve become ingrained you don’t even give it a second thought, and may even make the conclusion that anyone else who doesn’t get it is dumb. Take for example this story a game UI tester had: They tried everything in the book to open the player’s inventory, double clicking, pressing I, going through the menu, etc, until they asked a developer who said “Oh, you just have to triple click your character”. To the developer it made perfect sense because that’s just the way things always were, but to the new-comer (and potential gamer) it was a complete curve ball.

I tried to use an iPhone once and, through much trial and error, I found what I was looking for by pulling back the corner of the page, swiping this other thing, etc. Even Android does this when you have to long-press on menu items to pull up their options as there is no GUI hint when it’s an option and when it’s not. I’m especially annoyed by Google Contact’s interface, as you have to mouse over text or areas of the interface to make it look like it’s editable. These are real-world examples of common interfaces doing things differently and requiring prior knowledge or trial and error. When you do things differently you have to make it intuitive or educate your users.

PS: Saying the “shutdown button is literally one-click” is very misleading, and inaccurate (according to the article linked). The steps to shutdown are actually:
1. Move mouse to the bottom corner.
2. Wait for menu to appear.
3. Move mouse over ‘Power’ button.
5. Click.
4. Move mouse over ‘Shutdown’ button.
6. Click.

PPS: Yes, that’s a minor exaggeration of the amount of effort.

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get_template_part( 'loop', 'category' );

What this essentially does is looks for a file called loop-category.php to load in, and if that file is not present it falls back on loop.php.

If you wish to style only the results on the category page, and not those on the front page, create a copy of loop.php and name it loop-category.php. Then, make your changes.

Keep in mind that you may need to change some style declarations around to make up for the changes.

Hope this helps!