WordPress 2.5 Widgets Bug

teli rambled in the late morning on March 31 2008

If you’re known to use widgets, you may want to keep your eyes open for a small bug which I’ve come across on this blog while trying to update my newest theme.

This quirk is hard to describe, but I’ll do my best…

First, the theme I’m working on features 3 sidebars: One with a custom name, Top Side, and two using the ‘Sidebar %d’ method (i.e. Top Side, Sidebar 1 and Sidebar 2).

I created a custom text block for the first widget and added it to ‘Top Side’. So far, so good. Tweaked the functions.php file in order to remove the before and after widget <li> code and all continued to be right with the world.

Then, I decided to add a widget to the first sidebar and that’s when the sky fell down on my head. finish reading »

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.5

teli rambled in the wee hours on March 31 2008

It’s official. Mild Insanity is now running the most recent version of WordPress.

This upgrade didn’t come entirely of my own volition; I used MI as a guinea pig (as I always do) in order to put together a video tutorial of the upgrade process. Although I’ve already done one, since 2.5 is a significant milestone, I figured it could use some sprucing up since the back end has changed. finish reading »

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