Mr. Self Development

1) the widgets all have a at the bottom of their widget in the sidebar except yours. You may want to find out how they did it and add that in, so it breaks up the segments of the sidebar.

2) Is there some way you can add target=”_blank” to the options when there is a link in the twpts? I like to give my readers a choice about going to the new site or staying with mine.

3) I told the widget to sort by date, newest at the top, and it’s not doing that. What am I doing wrong?

A couple things. Could you figure out some way to put JUST the post box on the main dashboard page? I go there habitually to check overall status and to do posts to the blog, having a place to update the microblog would be fantastic. That way I can do short posts that are for stream of consciousness or short updates that don’t warrant a full post.

Second, the title “tWPtter says…” crushed against the sidebar divider when it was left alone. I modified it to “Joy Says…” and it still did it, so I had to drop a couple   in there to get it to move away enough to be legible. Something to look at maybe?

Styling: How do I style JUST the tWPts to stand out from the rest of the page? Like with no bullets, custom bullets, Bold, a different font, different font color, etc. Maybe adding that functionality to the “settings” page would be good.

Feel free to talk to me about testing out features. The blog is “live” but non published so any breakage that happens isn’t critical. I’m using it as a mirror right now for another blog.

I discovered that naming the file ‘filename.inc’ made it work, in some of your documentation it stated to name it ‘filename.html’ which did not work. Also some folks may not know that when wordpress is installed in your root folder (without the /wordpress/ directory) — (on some hosts like Alexa’s – Blue Host) that the public_html is considered to be the root folder. So she could place it in there –

Also I found that –for an include the html page does not need all the ‘head info’ like (the DOCTYPE or other standard html and meta info —you can have only the info that goes in the body with out the body tags.) I also experimented with styles in the head section —it worked but threw all my other styling out the window —such is the case with Style in the head section …. and since then have removed the head section. I tried calling an image file from that same ‘IMIT_files’ from within an images folder – nope — did not work. but I was able to get an image file by using a long URL path —and doing that with wordpress in my public_html folder/root directory. That path FYI would go like this: http://yoursitename.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/yourimage.jpg that is how I got a background image to be placed in the background of my text.
An enhancement would be to be able to trigger JavaScript other codes that usually do abide with in the ‘Head area’ from the html as well as other standard functions we have enjoyed without plugins before WordPress came into being. Don’t get me wrong I like WordPress and think it is a great tool but I do miss the good ole’ days when html and flash worked well without having to learn a new plugin for every other function I want to be able to have “just work”.