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About Me widget for WordPress – update

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

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WordPress Theme: missunderstood

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. The sidebar is fixed (static), but the header and

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WordPress theme: Corporate Slave

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

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Guide to using the WordPress Support Forums

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

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About Me widget for WordPress

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

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WordPress Troubleshooting: What happened to my Sidebar??

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

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Conflict with Tiger Style Admin and WordPress widgets?

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

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