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• CSS Dropdown Menu hides behind Videos

  Yes, that’s an annoying one – and it has less to do with your Theme’s CSS and more to do with teh Flash Player.
  Easy remidy is at hand, even though it means that you need to add code to each video.
  Here’s how you do it:
  Your videos will be embedded with both <OBJECT> and <EMBED> tags [...]

• How to modify an existing theme

  All Wordpress Themes are released under the GNU, which means you’re free to amend and modify them as you please. That’s good news if you come across a layout that you like to 90%, and you’re up for the challenge to get down and dirty with some code.
  The Wordpress Codex is very good at explaining [...]

• PayPal Buttons are not to scale in Thesis

  Indeed they’re not, they look waaaaay to big and ugly.
  Help is at hand by adding this code to your Cutsom CSS File in Thesis:
  .custom .format_text input, #commentform input, #commentform textarea {
  width:auto;
  }
  Instant relief.

• How to batch-upgrade plugins in Wordpress 2.9+

  One of the big features announced with Wordpress 2.9 was the ability to upgrade several plugins at once. Trouble is, it’s not an easy to find feature. Fret not, for The Guru has found it!
  You’d expect to go to Plugins, check the ones you want to upgrade and choose “Upgrade All” from the bulk actions [...]

• Wordpress Themes

  Here are some sites to check out for FREE Wordpress Themes:

  http://www.themescore.com/
  http://www.amazingwordpressthemes.com
  http://www.wordpress.org/extend/themes

  I’ll amend this list if and when I discover more – drop me a line of a resource you can think of.

• How to avoid Server Crashes with Wordpress

  Wordpress has many pros for content creators like ourselves, but every once in a while there’s a big con that can get in the way of Wordpress Fun. One of them is really annoying: when your website becomes regularly unavailable due to a server crash!
  Even though a reboot brings things back to normal for a [...]

• How to shorten the_content() in Wordpress Themes

  If you’ve ever created a Wordpress Theme and you’re not happy with the way it outputs text to your theme, you might be interested in a handy plugin called the_excerpt_reloaded(). You can

  shorten the number of words being printed to screen
  you can add a handy “Read More” or whatever link
  allow or disallow certain HTML tags (nice!)
  and [...]

• How to add a Favicon to my website?

  Simple!
  Follow these steps:

  check out this fabulous free Favicon Generator: http://www.favicon.cc/
  find or draw a picture you like
  download the file FAVICON.ICO and copy it into your root directory
  celebrate your new Favicon

  That’s it!

• How to add a NEW THEME to your site

  One of the most amazing things about Wordpress is that you can select a completely new layout for your site at the touch of a button. It’s just as easy to upload a new theme to your library – try it out for yourself.
  Here’s what you do:

  download and un-zip your theme, so you end up [...]

• How to modify the Modularity Lite Theme from Graph Paper Press

  If you don’t know this theme yet, you should check it out at Graph Paper Press.
  Modularity Lite is Thad Allender’s freebie version of a larger framework. I was customising this theme for Jerry Hyde’s site recently, and thought I’d take some notes to share with you.
  Slowing Down the Slideshow
  I’ve been through every PHP file I [...]