ultimate geek girl

Installing a plugin reccomended by a fellow blogger sounded like a great idea until you relaized that you didn’t need or want it on your WordPress site. So, you deactivated the plugin via the Plugin panel, but now your blog is broken!

You are getting an error “Fatal error: Call to undefined function.” and part of your blog’s content is missing!

Fortunately, there’s a fix for the plugin deactivation error issue - it just takes a little detective work and some patience.

The latest in the WordPress software, 2.6, has some nifty features, but the image controls is not one of them, if you have a theme that does not appreciate the new coding and alignment code.

The solution is simple, and hopefully other thememakers will take notice of this change; and include this code in their new templates.

Insert the following code:

img.alignleft, div.alignleft {
float:left;
margin:0 0.5em 0.5em 0;
}
img.alignright, div.alignright {
float:right;
margin:0 0 0.5em 0.5em;
}
img.aligncentered, div.aligncentered {
text-align:center;
margin:0 auto;
}

anywhere in your .css file, and save. Now your images should align properly!

Everybody’s favorite CMS (content management system), WordPress, just released version 2.6 an entire month ahead of schedule. Not only did this version fix almost 200 bugs, but it adds some new features that are sure to have most WordPress users dancing in their computer chairs!

Now WordPress comes with a built in word count, so you can see in real time how many words long your post is! Look for the Word count directly below the Save and Publish buttons in your Publish Status box.

MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad is a great, non obtrusive addition to most WordPress installations!

Use it to display a welcome message, reminder to visitors, an affiliate link, an “extra special” link to a favorite or popular post, and more - the sky is the limit, as long as the text and html will fit in the stripe!

As you can see from the screenshots, setting it up is a little cumbersome - a lot different than the average plugin - but it seems to be worth it if you want a low-key, customizable message to appear at the TOP of your screen when your visitors come to your WordPress powered site.

The Odiogo Listen Button adds an extra layer of visitor-friendly goodness to your WordPress powered site. This plugin from Odiogo adds a “Listen Now” button to your blog posts, so visitors can download or listen to your Odiogo podcasts.

I like this plugin because I am already using Odiogo to provide text-to-speech for my posts, and I want to give my visitors an easy way to download and listen to my posts when they are on the go - just another option in this multi-media world!

One of my favorite things about WordPress are its plugins - small, typically free add-ons that add in additional functionality to the WordPress system.

Some of the most popular WordPress plugins are those that give a little love to the people who make our blogs successful - our commenters!

Commentluv by Andy Bailey is one of those plugins. Commentluv will show a link to the last post from the commenter’s blog in their comment. It is one of the easiest plugins to install - just upload, activate and let it do its magic!