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My never ending saga of using Wordpress on my mobile phone is reaching desperate proportions! I hate Wordpress and I hate my phone right now. I cannot log into Wordpress 2.6 admin on my mobile browser.

I have gone through several plugins with no success- tho I did find some nice mobile phone and mobile browser plugins that work well with sites that have Wordpress 2.5 installed and make mobile integration with admin panel in WordPress easier.
To add to issues hard to test as no signal for phone where my PC is located. Never ending

I have tried WPhone with no luck- tho I like on my other non 2.6 blogs.
I am about to try PostMaster whihc looks very promising,. Not so promising is the “compatible to 2.5 ” warning, tho I will give this a shot. If it does what it says it will do it is perfect.

Posting text, photos and videos from your phone has never been easier! With PostMaster you can post via email with attachments. PostMaster embeds attached media into your post, so no more boring text-only posts from your phone!

PostMaster allows you to control the resizing of attached images. So, you can have thumbnail images created on the fly! You can also have the generated thumbnail link to the full-size image, automatically.

PostMaster gives you control over the categories you want your post to appear in. With the category assignment feature you can define the categories for your post from the subject line.

You can control how media is embedded in the post body by editing PostMaster templates. There is a template for each media type group (images, videos, etc).

Almost all phones and email services are supported.

I am hoping I can post from a web based account as sadly Samsung Instinct does not allow pop3 email.

Note: This did not solve problem of being able to access Wordpress 2.6 or newer with a mobile browser.

Tags: WordPress Blog, WordPress Plugins by Lisa Stewart
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One of my favourite plugins, the Daily Top 10 Posts Wordpress Plugin , does not work in recently released Wordpress 2.6.

I am out of sorts now I adore this plugin. I went ahead and installed Wordpress 2.6 and went ahead and installed on one of my main blogs and I very disappointed that it does not work. Not only does it not display top 10 ( or however many you define) it “breaks” the admin dashboard as well.

I doubt developer will fix.

You need to deactivate the plugin to get your dashboard working…
ARGH. Why didn’t I wait to install new version like I have ALWAYS done !!!

Tags: WordPress Blog, WordPress Plugins by Lisa Stewart
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The easiest way to get a different look is to change colours in your css file. Use an HTML editor and the find/replace function.
Copy your entire css file ( found in Presentation–> Theme editor and usually called stylesheet or style.css or similar.
Copy the entire file into an html editor ( don’t use Word which can sometimes change or add characters in code). Save.
Make sure you keep copy of your original css file ( or any file) somewhere before you make changes.

Find a color (using a hex color chart) you are going to replace and choose the colour you want to replace. Use find/replace function to edit. Test.
Keep going until you get look you want, It can be tricky you may find a styling will make text disappear or colors look strange.

Are You Color challenge and don;t want to go through the hassle?
You can find some very nice color themes online.
Kuler.com has gorgeous color themes available for free. I particularly like Firenze and Blueberry juice. You can also custom design your own themes. This is the best tool of its kind .
Also MediaZeal’s Color Planner

Test colours before you apply theme with many of the free color picker tools available, like yaflaColor

Did you personalize your free Wordpress theme by changing colors? I would love to see them- post link and theme name in comments section. This is a dofollow blog and your link in comments section will be followed.

Helpful Tools For Changing Your WordPress Blog

Free CoffeeCup HTML Editor.
PSPad - a freeware code editor
Bluefish editor
Hex Color Chart

Tags: Web Design, WordPress Blog by Lisa Stewart
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Want to change your meta info contained in a Wordpress sidebar widget?

If you are trying to edit the meta data that appear in the sidebar of your Wordpress blog., i.e to add nofollow tags, remove link entirely, add link find this code (or similar) in widget.php file- in your /includes folder.
For detailed info see Edit Meta Widget in Wordpress post.

function wp_widget_meta($args) {
extract($args);
$options = get_option('widget_meta');
$title = empty($options['title']) ? __('Meta') : $options['title'];
?>