Hi everyone,

As some of you will know there have been some technical issues for a while with my Wordpress template. This included the following issues:

1. In Internet Explorer 6 and lower site menu’s would not display (and hence Entrecard widget was missing)
2. Some images were displaying out of alignment in Internet Explorer (all versions)
3. The title under individual posts was missing a separator line casing it to look… well… strange
4. Tags in posts and on main index page were overlapping rather than displaying on separate lines
5. Comment form was a static size which meant I could not add things to it

Enhancements:

I have installed a few additional plugins recently for Wordpress which I hope will make people’s life here more enjoyable and easy. Firstly is SezWho, for those of you that don’t know essentially SezWho gives readers the ability to rate not only the content on a blog but the comments that people leave as well (among many other things).

I have also installed a plugin to allow you to subscribe by email to comments. I hope that this might encourage more people to comment and join in more ongoing conversations (rather than comment then not return). For those that are interested the plugin I chose for this job is Subscribe to Comments.

I have also installed Broken Link Checker which will allow me to ensure that there are no broken links on my blog (which there are currently around 10, so I do apologise for this, I will be fixing these up in the near future).

I have also done a few other plugins that are more for background management sort of things so I will not bore you needlessly. Unless anyone is actually interested in me doing a post on my recommended plugins and why… thoughts?

Some advice (both giving and receiving)

As I mentioned in one of my earlier posts I have been using RentACoder to get a lot of these issues fixed. I started up a few projects and within a week had all these problems resolved. If you have an issue on your blog and need to get something tweaked (or really if you have any issue with coding, templates etc at all) you can post a project and get coders from around the world to bid on it… too easy!

Also my other piece of advice for today is get your hands on the Broken Link Checker plugin mentioned above it is one *invaluable* one that will show you any broken links on your blog so that you can fix them up *before* they cause your readers issues.

Finally, a few questions for you to ponder (and hopefully give feedback on):

1. If you could change/fix one thing on this site what would it be and why?
2. I am thinking of cutting down the ad’s on the site to free up the space in the left hand menu, what would you like to see the space used for instead?
3. What is the one thing that you like best about Secluded Habitat?