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About Me widget for WordPress - update

Posted in November 9th, 2006
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Working on 0.99 and and I decided to take the About Me widget to a level I had never intended. If you have used it before, you’re used to seeing this configuration interface:

I had originally intended to design a widget that would allow a user to enter a path to an image, a few [...]

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WordPress Theme: missunderstood

Posted in October 2nd, 2006
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This is the release of the missunderstood theme, originally designed by Will Rossiter. This is a dark theme, with a slightly girlish touch (that’s not pink!). See a live demo here.

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WordPress theme: Corporate Slave

Posted in September 17th, 2006
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Here is a newsletter-style 2-column with sidebar theme for WordPress which allows some control over which categories are displayed in each column. I included the WordPress Theme Toolkit by Ozh for user-friendliness. This theme is a modified version of Corporate Slave, by dreamLogic .

For style and functionality I have included some plugins: HotDates by Supriyadi [...]

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Guide to using the WordPress Support Forums

Posted in July 19th, 2006
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Which of the following is true?

The Wordpress Support Forums can be a wonderful resource, a gold mine of wisdom and technical expertise, with quick, salient responses that get me right back on track…
The WordPress Support Forums can be a black hole you drop questions into, never to be responded to, or the responses seem to [...]

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About Me widget for WordPress

Posted in June 28th, 2006
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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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WordPress Troubleshooting: What happened to my Sidebar??

Posted in June 26th, 2006
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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 will [...]

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Conflict with Tiger Style Admin and WordPress widgets?

Posted in May 5th, 2006
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Chasing down issues with enabling widgets with WordPress 2.0.2. Everything seemed to work fine, except that I could not 'configure' the widgets. Clicking on the little 'note' (configure) icon brought up the configuration window, but it was greyed out and clicking on it just made it fade away. Tried permissions, re-install, etc., etc. [...]

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