Compact Archives on Page, Where to Place Code
Feb 9, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: plugins, wordpressThis is regarding the Compact Archives plugin, by Rob Marsh.
There are a few extra steps if you’d like to place the compact archives inside a WordPress page, instead of the sidebar.
<ul><?php compact_archive(); ?></ul> can’t be pasted onto a page within WP admin, because it is a php code.
So here’s what you can do.
What It’ll Look Like
If you view the webhostmonkeys archives, you’ll see this at the top.
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CSS Padding, Border, Margin
Feb 7, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: CSS tipsBasic CSS. I think I should stare at this image for a long time, so that I no longer mix up the margin and padding areas.
a) Where’s What
1. content
Where your main text is.
2. padding
The padding surrounds the content box. If the padding has 0 width, the padding edge is the same as the content edge.
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Fix Sitemap Error in Google, Invalid XML: too many tags
Feb 6, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: blogging tips, blogspot, plugins, wordpressI was having problems locating http://www.thegaleon.com/feed, so I created a feed at FeedBurner, thinking it’d solve the problem.
My blog feed became http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheGaleon.
I tried to submit a feed (WordPress allows several) at Google Webmaster Tools.
But kept on getting this (*%^$-ing!) warning.
You can try the following. Hopefully, one will work.
Choose “Add General Web Sitemap” in Google Webmaster Tools, as the option.
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Missing WordPress Feed?
Feb 6, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: wordpressBy 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.
When I typed in http://www.thegaleon.com/feed — I got a “this page cannot be displayed”, page.
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WordPress Pretty Links, Individual Posts
Feb 6, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: blogging tips, wordpressIf you look at the links of individual posts (of different WordPress blogs), you may have noticed that some of them have numbers.
I personally like the permalink type that is date and name based.
The WordPress default permalink looks like this:
http://thegaleon.com/?p=26
The one I’m using now is:
http://www.thegaleon.com/2008/01/08/herbert-james-draper/
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I don’t know if this happened to anyone else. 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 happened to switch to IE (to see if it stayed the same), 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 tipsI submitted my blogs (when previously on Blogger) to a whole bunch of blog directories.
I’m not really interested in the whole blog voting thing — I look at the features, presentation of the directories, and whether they add blogs to their listing in a matter of hours/days, or never at all.
For a list of many other directories not included here, you can check out Tips for New Bloggers’ 3-part article on submitting to blog directories.
Here’s a list of my favored directories, in my humble opinion. Ten thousand blog links and buttons might make the sidebar a bit cluttered.
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