Over the past few months I have come across an enormous amount of resources and tools for every aspect of working with WordPress. This is another one of the benefits of Open Source (a large number of contributors), however the down side can be that there’s no central ‘management’ or quality control over these. It [...]

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This article was inspired by the fact that WordPress downloads recently passed the 1,000,000 mark.
There are some very common problems that pop-up frequently on the WordPress Support Forums that can stop an installation dead in it’s tracks. This is my attempt at covering these issues while still relying on the WordPress codex.
To provide a [...]

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WordPress 2.0.4 was released on the 29th. With over 60 bugs squashed since 2.0.3 (including what little substantive portion there was of Dr. Doom’s(sic) “OMG-The-Sky-Is-Falling” reference) this is the most secure, stable release or WordPress. Upgrade now. Shh. Zip it! Just do it. In addition, Mark Jaquith has posted a 2.0.3 > 2.0.4 [...]

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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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Shortstat: There's an issue with shortstat 1.3 and WordPress 2.0.x. Try this fix:
I was having the same trouble with logging not occurring. is_admin_page()* was returning true for non-admin pages. I just commented that line out, and it’s working for me on WP 2.0.2 – I don’t know what other effects doing this will have.
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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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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 IE [...]

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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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