Since I don’t consider my blog anonymous or ‘seekrit’ I grabbed a text widget and started adding an “About Me’ to my sidebar. After trying to get things aligned, formatted, and adding a few links I started thinking a widget might be nice for this. I had not seen anything like this around, so here [...]

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This is one of the most common questions asked in the WordPress Support Forum. From "Where did my sidebar go?" to "Why is my sidebar at the bottom of my page?"…  The most common cause I see is when someone drops a large image (or movie object) into a post. If it's big enough it [...]

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Your page is broken or some support monkey is insisting you validate it! "OMG! I just want my sidebar back!" Everyone makes mistakes, the point is that new habits and practice can limit these. I hope the following can help, so let's get down to it:  I have yet to see a theme designed in [...]

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Internet Explorer (previous to v7, at least) does not follow the same standards as everyone else. The most noticeable effect this has in blogging with WordPress is that IE will add margins and padding together, which can really screw up your layout. The other effects are far too numerous to mention here (my little poke [...]

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With issues arising from varying Shared Hosting Packages, versions of PHP, Apache, etc., file permission issues sometimes rear their ugly head. I’m hoping the following reference can provide some help or direction to those less experienced: A “file not found” “404″, “Unable to create directory”, “cannot open” or “doesn’t exist” error stops things dead in [...]

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WordPress 2.0.3 was released June 1 (I know, I know, it's not May but I'm including it anyway). If you get it, make sure you read about the "Are you sure?" tuneup Mark released. On May 24th, a new version of Akismet appeared! Basically it just cleans up the formatting of the spam page a [...]

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