This is probably a very embarrassing discovery, since I have been using the WordPress for almost two years now. I just figured out how to use the advanced toolbar when writing a post or a page.

To toggle between the standard and the advanced toolbar, just press Control-V and - voila! On Windows try Alt-V, it [...]

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Time for a change. After about 18 months I have replaced the old theme by Vermario with the new one - Cleaker by Adam Cleaveland.
It took a little while to do some changes, particularly the hyperlink colour scheme, but it all looks the way I liked. I had some special feedback from my wife, things [...]

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WordPress 2.2 has been officially released earlier today. Apart from over 200 security fixes, these are the most notable changes and improvements:

WordPress Widgets allow you to easily rearrange and customize areas of your weblog (usually sidebars) with drag-and-drop simplicity.

Full Atom support, including Atom feeds 1.0 and implementation of the Atom Publishing API.

A new Blogger [...]

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SilverMac.com is one year old today, woo-hoo! It’s a few minutes past midnight here in Brisbane and I just realised that on this day last year I posted the first article on this website.
Having a cold doesn’t help when you’d like to have a glass of Champagne, but hot green tea from favourite Apple cup [...]

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If you work with WordPress on a regular basis you really need to setup Apache, MySQL, PHP, and WordPress on your machine - it makes developing themes, plug ins, and new blogs much simpler and (almost) all of your mistakes can be fixed before you go live.
Ben Bleikamp has an excellent guide how to install [...]

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If you are having a problem inserting Amazon associates ads into WordPress, then you are not the only one. For some strange reason WordPress strips the iframe html so that you end up with one of the two situations; either the ad itself is missing or the ad is there but any text in your [...]

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