I found that my theme was not working correctly in Internet Explorer (Gee, imagine that.) Rather than search for another, I’ve decided to tweak it myself. Pardon my lack of styles for a bit. Edit There. I’ve created a new template, based on my old template’s stylesheet, that uses YUI Grids instead of a home [...]

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Ok, I found a widget that could replace the bookmark widget by simply allowing a customizable interface to the wp_list_bookmarks function. This is a highly customizable function that not only lets you grab all the bookmarks, but allows customization of how they are displayed. The widget gives you an interface that lets you change parameters [...]

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I just installed the plugin wp-cache. I’m not sure why more WordPress users don’t enable this. From the Wp-Cache description: WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make you site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly [...]

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I found a couple plugins that make the tag and category features function the way I’d like. Simple TaggingThis plugin allows each post to have an associated set of tags. This enables a clean category system while still being able to show the subjects that each post talks about. Simple Tagging Widget This widget Enables [...]

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Well, after evaluating a lot of templates, I’ve realized I’ll need a bookmarking plugin. There aren’t very many templates that contain the bookmarking widgets already. Here are the ones I’ve tried: Social Bookmark Plugin This one is OK. I like how you can dynamically choose which sites you’d like included in the list of links. [...]

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I’ve played around quite a bit with link structure for various sites I’ve programmed. I’ve found that Google will index your pages whether they have a parameterized URLs: http://somesite.example?param1=this&param2=that or parameterized Paths (Permalinks): http://somesite.example/this/that I think, however, that in general, search engines like the path portion of the URL better than they like than the [...]

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