Dear Becca, (I love your avatar - too cute!) Your questions answered: 1. By grey boxes around everything - I assume you mean the images? To remove these, go to Appearance>>Edit, and find the Style.css- should be listed at the bottom of the right-hand side. - scan through that file until you find: a img {border: 3px solid grey; .....} - change the border width to zero like so: a … [Read more...]
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Sidebar Fix #2: the < break > tag
This post is the third in a series called, "Save the Sidebar!" Click on the button below to start at the beginning! A lot of you use <br> tags to accomplish a space between sidebar items. Although this will work, it will interfere with validating your site, it will probably be deprecated pretty soon, AND it doesn't make very good use of your time. Did you know that if you add the … [Read more...]
Sidebar Fix #1: the < p > tag
WordPress is a very user-friendly back-end to your blogs. The stuff that you enter - your text, images, videos, comments, go into WordPress's engines and they do their "thing" to publish it all classy-like. There are THREE areas of your blog that skip the WordPress engines. They take your text and publish it directly to the WEB. These are: text widgets HTML editor theme … [Read more...]
Why is my sidebar swinging below my content?
Q: Why is my sidebar swinging below my content? A: 9 times out of 10, it is the same reason: there is an unclosed division within an html/text widget. Hang in there with me, I intend to explain this in English, I promise. The Problem: Your browser thinks that your sidebar belongs with the main content area. If you look closely, you'll notice that the sidebar is NOT under the left hand … [Read more...]
How to add pictures to your sidebar
This is one of the only areas in which you CAN mess up your website: TEXT widgets. Some of you lovely ladies are quite risk friendly and love to play with your websites. This message is for you: be careful! For our readers who are scared to touch their blogs for fear of breaking something, this message is for you: this is one of the ONLY ways you can mess up your blog. :) Using text widgets … [Read more...]
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WordPress 2.7 Takes Care of Comments
Image by premasagar via Flickr There are a lot of plugins out there to help with the old commenting function in WordPress. We had all manor of ajax plugins, and nested comments plugins, plus the email-the-user and subscribe-to-thread plugins. Here is a list of the functionality that is now INCLUDED with WordPress 2.7.x. Ajax loading of reply-to-comment form ability to respond to individual … [Read more...]