However, I’ve run into a formatting issue when I need my slideshow to be flush against an element of one of my designs. See the EnergyLogicAcademy.com website for an example.

The plugins CSS contains an extra 10px margin that must be removed to fix this. When the Slideshow gallery plugin is activated, it requires a css adjsutment to the nggallery.css file to close the gap at the top of the slideshow.

Widgets in WordPress are wrapped in list-item tags in the file includes/widgets.php   – around line 550:

 $defaults = array(
  'name' => sprintf(__('Sidebar %d'), $i ),
  'id' => "sidebar-$i",
  'description' => '',
  'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
  'after_widget' => "</li>\n",
  'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
  'after_title' => "</h2>\n",
 );

However, you’ll notice that the code does not include the <ul> </ul> tags.

In your theme template, when including widgets, you might use something like this: 
<div id=”sidebar”><?php  /*
Widgetized sidebar, if you have the plugin installed. */
  if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) || !dynamic_sidebar(‘widget area name’) ) : ?> 
<?php endif; ?></div><!–close sidebar–>

When implementing a text widget, the resulting code will end up looking something like this – note the missing UL tags:

<div id=”sidebar”><li id=”text-3″ class=”widget widget_text”> <h2 class=”widgettitle”>
test
< /h2> <div class=”textwidget”>
test
</div> </li> </div> <!–close sidebar–>

This may not seem like such a big deal, but the missing <ul> tags can cause havoc in formatting your sidebars in css, and will also return the following W3C validation errors in  your site:

document type does not allow element “li” here; missing one of “ul”, “ol”, “menu”, “dir” start-tag

To avoid these issues, simply enclose the widget code in a <ul>:

<div id=”sidebar”><ul><?php  /* Widgetized sidebar, if you have the plugin installed. */
  if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) || !dynamic_sidebar(‘widget area name’) ) : ?> 
<?php endif; ?></ul></div><!–close sidebar–>

And use the following style if you don’t want your sidebars to look like bullet lists:

#sidebar ul
{
 margin: 0;
 padding: 0;
 list-style:none;}

If you don’t want to have a bullet in front of your widget title (it doesn’t work well with many template styles), add the following to your CSS:

li.widget
{list-style:none;}

So simple, a caveman could do it.

.menu ul li a.current_parent
{
color: #2e4a81;
background-color: #2e4a81;
background-image:url(./images/tabbg.jpg);
background-position: top right;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

Having your mom at a cub scout meeting is definitely a liablility from my son’s perspective. I kept doing embarrasing things like making him wear a coat, adjusting his helmet, cheering too loudly when he used the brake to slow down, and hugging him when I realized he survived the 50 yard plummet. It was also bad from my perspective because every vessel of mom-blood in my veins was screaming “noooooooo!” when the scout leader shoved the go-cart carrying my precious child down the hill and let go.

Thankfully the cub scouts all survived with their limbs intact, and we went inside for cookies & business. Before the close of the meeting, the Scout Leader tested each of the bouncing, wriggling, cookie & juice-filled boys on the Cub Scout Promise, which they are supposed commit to memory and recite on command. I’m sure I’ve heard the promise before, maybe 35 years ago when my brother was a cub scout, but I’ve never heard my son or husband mention it, and they certainly haven’t been practicing. With prompting, Ty could start out with “I, Tyler”…” an it would fade to an untelligible mumble from there.

Aha – something I could help with that doesn’t involve door-to-door sales or potential broken bones! We practiced the promise in the car all the way home. It goes like this:

“I, Tyler, promise to do my best
to do my duty
to God and my Country
to help other people
and obey the law of the pack.”

Maybe Mom’s should have their own promise. Something like:
“I, Tyler’s Mom Jen, promise to do my best
to let my son be brave and daring,
to help without embarassing him,
and to not eat all the cookies of the pack.”

Important! Don’t forget to go back and re-add that redirect back in if you upgrade your plugin. I hate doing things twice, so I’m recommending to the Contact Form 7 developers that they add this option to the admin tool.

I have discs & discs full of pictures, tons of memorabilia of all kinds. I’m a bit of a packrat, and hang on to all kinds of weird stuff in shoe boxes and desk drawers. I also need a push to work on something like a scrapbook. I’m too busy & distracted to work on it at home, plus, I would have way too much help from my kids to actually accomplish anything.

So, on Friday I ran into my Volunteer Life Coach and she asked what I was doing this weekend. Typically I wouldn’t tell her much because she always suggests ways that I can improve my experience. However, this time, I thought “Aha! I’m doing something fun and creative this weekend. She won’t be able to “should” me this time! Perhaps she’d even say, she even say somthing like “Gee, that sounds like fun. Have a good time.”

Of course, my VLC always has something surprising to offer. I braced myself, ready to hear what kind of snack to bring to scrapbooking, what kind of book I should make, what materials would be needed and where to by them. And she said…

“Oh, I wouldn’t do that. You should just upload your pictures to kodak and order a photobook.”

(I can’t wait for scrapbooking now! I’ll have to find out if cocktails are allowed.)

This is how you do it…

Add a column next to your list and put this in those cells:
=Rand()

This will put random numbers next to your list. Then you can select both columns and sort in descending or ascending order on the cells with the random numbers. Everytime you do the sort, it should change the order because the numbers change on every new calculation in the sheet.

Why would you need this? For a first grade reading test of course!