This plugin lets you show your old theme to your visitors while you see the new one you’re tinkering with. That way when you launch the new theme, it’s all 100% finished and no visitors have had to sit through any little glitches. This really makes theming so much easier!
(To tinker with your current theme, [...]

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I installed a new theme on another site a few days ago. Today I noticed that one of the most visited pages was:
http://[mydomain].com/wp-content/themes/bobv2/dax.swf
which is some sort of x-shockwave-flash object that creates a big white page in the browser that says only “Please pass in your text.” (See the screenshot.)
What is this? I can’t see any [...]

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Did you see the 8,005,421 posts about Pepperjam today? Gee, I wonder why everyone blogged about that at the same time. *yawn*

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Take a look at this post from 10e20. I’m just curious about something: do you find it easy to read the article?
I didn’t. I got very frustrated trying to find the text between the graphics, particularly when the graphics included screenshots full of text. The headers also distracted me because they were so close together [...]

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I don’t use no-follow as a rule. All my Wordpress blogs have do-follow on them because my trusted commenters deserve the trusted form of a link. I will never encourage anyone to use no-follow because they’re a-feared a’ Google.
However: when I’m dealing with a commenter I’m not yet sure I can trust - one who [...]

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I found a brilliant new theme this weekend and put it on this site. Now the 125 x 125 ads are more prominent, the categories and archives display in this box that’s like a drop-down except way cooler. Enjoy!

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After setting up a Wordpess static front page with its own template the other day, I decided I didn’t want everything in the sidebars to show on that front page. I looked for conditional code to wrap around the items I wanted to hide, but that didn’t seem like the cleanest solution. Then I wondered: [...]

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I decided one of my blogs needs a static front page. There’s just so much going on and so many subdomains, it really makes sense to have a landing page with links instead of dumping people in on whatever post happens to be at the top.
I actually do not think this is appropriate for every [...]

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Okay, yeah, I’m going to plug MaxBlogPress one more time, because he just solved another issue for me.
When I upgraded to Wordpress 2.3, the CustomQueryString plugin bit the dust, and there didn’t appear to be any updates, which meant now my archive pages had to have the same number of posts as my homepage. As [...]

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I timestamp most of my Wordpress posts. The other day, I came across a recent conversation about how Wordpress pings the services when you hit “publish”, not when the post goes live. This is not good; you can read more about it there.
Further research suggests this problem has been cleared up by version 2.3, and [...]

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