Extra, Extra Read all about it, Chomp Chomp… Ack. My sidebar was eaten. on the 11th of November

It seems something with the blogrush widget was eating my left-hand sidebar in IE, so I’ve removed it until I can scour through the code to find the bug. The worst part is that I don’t know how long it has been doing it because I don’t usually open my website in IE unless I am changing the styling.

Sorry for any confusion or weirdness. It just goes to show that you can’t trust random widgets you find on the web.

Luckily though, it made me revalidate my website and it seems that three different plugins were causing validation errors ranging from adding the “border=0″ attribute to images all the way up to invalidating my entire sidebar. I can understand minor errors like adding the border=”0″ attribute to images, but when the latter half of the page is invalidated, something is seriously wrong. The offending plugin has been removed and probably won’t be reactivated.

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Oh, as an Aside: Plugins (From the 28th of January)

I currently have the following plugins on this site:

Name Description Information And Downloads
Name Description Information And Downloads
Wordpress Dashboard Editor
Last Updated: March 18th 2008
The first plugin that allows you to edit the dashboard without changing the file itself. This plugin allows you to remove some of the more irritating sections and even allows you to add Sidebar Widgets.

Thank you to the following for donating to this project:
Jeremy Clulow

Dashboard Editor:
Version 1.0 (WP 2.x)
Wordpress Access Keys
Last Updated: March 15, 2008
The Wordpress Access Keys Plugin allows you to add access keys to your pages and categories navigational menus that are called with wp_list pages and wp_list_categories respectively. Wordpress Access Keys:
Version 0.6 (WP 2.1 - 2.5)
Future Posts Calendar Plugin
Last Updated: March 15, 2008
This plugin adds a simple month-by-month calendar that shows all the months you have future posts for (and the current month no matter what), it highlights the days you have posts for, and as an added bonus if you click a day the Post Timestamp boxes change to that day, month and year (although it doesn’t check the edit timestamp box to avoid accidental changes).

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