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How to properly hide the title of your blog?

This is one of the most common customizations that people want to do in their wordpress blog.
They want to hide their site’s title from displaying at their header. It is most probably because their header image already has it as part of the image itself.
Lets take a look at the most common approaches people take, [...]

Sidebar drops down !

Lets take a look at one of the most common problems with the wordpress sites.

The sidebar does not stay on the side, and it falls down to be below the content area.

and the thing is, it is not consistently doing so. Sometimes it is just happening in IE and sometimes it happens only on certain [...]

Working with Pages in WordPress

WordPress allows you to create ‘Pages’ within the wordpress blog.
Anytime you want to write something like an about page / a contact page / an article page, you would use this feature.
Most of our themes displays a list of pages as navigational elements at the top. We use the wp_list_pages() method, so any new page [...]

Font Sizes and Accessibility

Lets take a closer look at the font-size property in CSS.
You might have seen this following piece of code in some theme’s style.css file.
#content h2 { font-size:1.4em;}
or this
#content h2 { font-size:14px;}
or this
#content h2 { font-size:10pt;}
What is the difference between all of these ? which one is better ?
In reality, [...]

Whats going on with the Feed Links ?

With the latest wordpress, the default theme has feed: attached to the normal feed links that start with http://yourwebsite.com/feed/ .
Most of the users complain that when you click on that, it does not work.
Yes, It wont work till all the browser manufacturers support that.
what is it anyway ?
Have you seen a mailto: added to links [...]