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:

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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:

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

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

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I spent the last six hours working on a redesign for Thripp.com. While I normally deal with programming, this time it was all CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Check this out; the boring old design:

And the bold new vision:

What do you think? I like it a lot. The new header and borders solidify olive green as the Thripp.com color, and the borders are pleasing to the eye for containing the content. The sidebar’s text isn’t so squished, links are nice and bold there, visited links go brighter green, the header is white on dark olive-green, …

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RSS feeds are getting a promotion today. Every blog now has a link to its RSS feed right in its sidebar, right below the Google ads. This blog says, for example:

RSS for this blog:
Entries feed
Comments feed

Check it out on the right. The feeds and links to them are dynamically generated for each blog, so no need for you to do anything. The links are mandatory because they help your readers stay in the loop. The links in the footer to your feeds are staying, so if people are down in that part of the page, they don’t …

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I added some code that shows the latest seven posts aggregated from all the blogs, right in your sidebar. It’s below stats, and I switched it so the widgets you add yourself (under Design > Widgets in your dashboard) appear above it and the blog stats.

This is a great way to keep up on what’s going on across the community. You can click any of the links to go right to that post. Hover over them and the date of posting will pop up. So, when you post something with at your thripp.com, you’re getting some guaranteed exposure, though for …

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