Archive: 2008 August 20

Show another Thripp.com blog in your sidebar

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-08-20T04:22:15Z in News, with these tags: blogs, connections, features, networking, posts, sharing, sidebar, thripp.com, 0 Comments. 251 words.

If you’re like me (I hope not), you have three Thripp.com blogs: The Thripp.com Development Blog (this one), Brilliant Photography, and Daytona State College News. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a way to feature content from one blog on another?

That’s just the feature I’ve added today, thanks to the Ada A Blog Recent Posts Widget plugin. You can add up to two other Thripp.com blogs to your sidebar under Design > Widgets, with the widgets, Thripp.com Blog and Thripp.com Blog 2. Here’s an example of mine, with my settings:

Thripp.com Blog Widget

You can …

Fixed WordPress calendar title formatting issue ($ak_title_separator) in cached pages

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-08-20T02:41:27Z in News, with these tags: blogs, bugs, caching, calendar, posts, sidebar, widgets, 0 Comments. 371 words.

I discovered an annoying issue with the calendar widget on my Thripp.com blog today. I use the widget which is included in WordPress, WordPress MU, and Thripp.com, but for the Internet Explorer, Safari, and Camino browsers, it formats the pop-up titles with line breaks instead of commas. In Firefox it looks like this:

WordPress Calendar, Firefox

It’s pretty reasonable to use commas to separate post titles. But in Internet Explorer, WordPress generates the page using line breaks instead:

WordPress Calendar, Internet Explorer

That makes sense, since Firefox can’t handle line breaks in title tags. Unfortunately, …