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Archive for February, 2008


Did Not Upgrade to WordPress 2.5

Feb 27, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: site rambles, wordpress

I think I’m gonna stay with my current version of WP.

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Optimize WordPress Page Title

Feb 18, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: SEO tips, blogging tips, wordpress

The importance of having a search engine friendly page title — and how to do it for a WP blog.

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Man alive!

Feb 14, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: site rambles

Ramblings due to the meta description for the index page, appearing on every single damn post of my WP blogs — which is not good.

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Create Archives Page, Wordpress

Feb 14, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: wordpress

How to create an Archives Page for Wordpress.

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Compact Archives on Page, Where to Place Code

Feb 9, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: plugins, wordpress

How to get Compact Archives to appear inside / work on a WordPress page.

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CSS Padding, Border, Margin

Feb 7, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: CSS tips

<-- basic CSS -->

Content. Padding. Border. Margin.

Order: Top, right, bottom, left.

Repeat until remembered.

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Seeing the “Invalid XML: too many tags” too many times makes one very exasperated…

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Missing WordPress Feed?

Feb 6, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: wordpress

By default, a blog’s feed should be as follows: http://www.mydomain.com/feed

By chance, my fantasy art blog was missing the default feed. WordPress has several feed URLs.

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WordPress Pretty Links, Individual Posts

Feb 6, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: blogging tips, wordpress

Consider using a custom permalink (date and name based), instead of the WordPress default (numbers based).

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CSS, Sidebar Jumping Around in IE

Feb 6, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: CSS tips, wordpress

I made some changes to one of the sidebars of my themes (increased the pixel width). It worked out fine in Firefox.

Later, when I switched to IE, I found that the sidebar had shifted wayyyy downwards instead…

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Submit to (The Better, Nicer) Blog Directories

Feb 5, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: blogging tips

I don’t really like sidebars to be overcrowded.

These are some directories that I personally like (due to features and presentation, and how quickly they add your blog/s to their listings).

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How To Take A Full Screenshot

Feb 5, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: free stuff, website tips

With no taskbar / toolbars showing.

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WordPress Related Posts Plugin, Where to Place Code

Feb 1, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: plugins, wordpress

This is regarding where to place the < ?php wp23_related_posts(); ?> code, for a Related Posts plugin.

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