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Do you ever have a need to override the way that your theme styles images? Maybe your theme is set to put a border around images in your posts, or float them over to the left, etc., and normally you’re okay with that, but for certain posts/images, you’d like them to be styled differently. […]

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    How to set up a sideblog

    I like the idea of a sideblog- there are always little things that I think are cool, or posts I’ve written for other sites that I’d like to link to here, but they’re just not worthy of a full post. I know quite a few people put asides in the main body of the […]

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    A Basic Guide to WordPress Template Tags

    Recently a reader asked how to add the time of a post to a theme, so I thought I would give a basic overview of WordPress template tags. This is one of those things that seems like it must be really complicated, but actually isn’t.
    What is a template tag? Template tags are used […]

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    With the release of my DIYTheme last week, I promised I would show you step by step how to customize it. I know there are a lot of people who would probably like to change some things about their current theme, but just aren’t sure where to begin, and don’t want to go editing […]

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    6 Essential Time Management Strategies

    Several months ago I did a post on productivity as a part of a group writing project. Vivien at Inspiration Bit has a new group writing project going on a similar topic - time management, which is something I think most of us deal with on a daily basis. I have a toddler at […]

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    Ok, this is going to be a techie post, so beware, but I always find it helpful when I’m searching for solutions to problems to read about how others have solved similar ones.
    My permalinks broke over the weekend. I still don’t know why, but they just stopped working in the configuration /archives/%postname%/ as I […]

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