Tag Archives: wordpress

A Temporary Fix to Keep WordPress XHTML Friendly

August 21, 2007 – 3:12 pm

Today I discovered two bugs in wordpress that keep it from being valid xhtml. They don’t happen in all occasion, but I was lucky enough to hit both with a project I was working on.
The first bug happens when you are using the links widget and have more than one category of links. What you [...]

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Update to Picased the WordPress Picasa Widget

August 11, 2007 – 11:10 am

Picasaed has been updated to version 0.4
Picasaed works pretty much the same as the Flickr Widget, but doesn’t use tables, because no one likes tables. It is all sorts of XHTML friendly, if that’s what gets your motor running. It doesn’t do anything fancy, it just displays X number of photos from a specific album. [...]

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Google’s Emotionless Blogspot Robots Kill Google’s Blog

August 10, 2007 – 9:17 am

A friend of mine recently told me about some troubles he had when Blogspot’s spam detection system decided that his blog was a sblog (spam blog). The process of verifying that he was a person and not a spam robot was a little annoying, but the real problem is that he could have lost [...]

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XAlign, A TinyMCE Fix for WordPress

July 10, 2007 – 11:36 am

It’s bothered me that TinyMCE, WordPress’ default rich text editor, uses the align attribute. For example if you want to center some text and use TinyMCE you’ll get code that looks like this:
<p align=”center”>My centered text</p>
Why is that a problem? Here’s the list

It is not valid strict xhtml
It is deprecated transitional xhtml
It does not [...]

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