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UPDATE: June 22, 2009 Max went to work quickly on this one and the Simple Sidebar Navigation Plugin is now completely compatible with 2.8.  I love this plugin and will have a full post on it later this week.  Be sure to read the comments below.

If you are using the Simple Sidebar Navigation Plugin by Max Chirkov It is not currently compatible with Wordpress 2.8.

It will still function but you can’t add additional pages to anything currently setup

By creating these two div classes below you can put your NextGen Gallery displays to the right or the left of the content in your post. The width of the div can be modified to whatever size you want to make it. It depends on the size you have set for thumbnails in your NextGen Gallery Options.

REBARCAMP “An un-conference” “It is kind of sitting around talking about stuff you are interested in or want to learn more about” Hum. “It is show and tell for Big Kids”

Did your captions suddenly get a mind of their own when you upgraded to 2.7?

The existing images with captions will be fine. However, with the advent of 2.7 captioned images are now wrapped in a “div” tag. There are two lines of code you will need to add to your styles.css for images to once again behave themselves.

It seems to depend on a couple of things I haven’t isolated yet.  I don’t know if it is the browser you use to create the post, the theme you are using, or a change in how the WP Editor writes the code.

What I discovered when trying to place a caption image to the left in a post it was missing code to handle this since it was now wrapped in a div tag.  I added these lines to the CSS captioning section and all began to work again.

.alignleft {
float: left;
}

.alignright {
float: right;
}

Place these right under:

/* Captions */
.aligncenter,
div.aligncenter {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

With this little addition they should behave themselves again.

This probably doesn’t have an impact on many bloggers.  I don’t see very many using the Caption feature.  It also seems to be rare to see an image in a post which isn’t centered.

What does this say about images and captions

If you want your blog to stand out from others  put images left and right with text along side and use captions.

Your blog won’t be the same as every other blog you read.  Yes, I know there is no image in this post.

(UPDATE)

While helping get a Bloodhound Senius Widget up and running using the Fun With Widgets Plugin we discovered there is a conflict between that plugin and the Thesis theme.

I recently ran across another plugin (My Custom Widget) which I decided to try and I like it much better. It is easier to get your Senius widget code up and running in your sidebar with the My Custom Widget.  It isn’t that hard to figure out. (Well maybe)  If you want you can check out the detailed post on My Custom Widget for Your Custom Blog.

I have to confess, I often don’t understand much of what Greg Swann is saying. I don’t know what a Scenius is and Praxis is either an exploding moon which was the Klingon Empire’s prime source of dilithium or something I go to the chiropractor to get put back in place.

I’ve read all the posts about Scenius several times and I don’t know what it is yet. I think it is a pretty cool piece of code and when I went to put it in my sidebar (which is widgetized) I found I could put it at the top or at the bottom, but I couldn’t place it in the list of widgets to get it in the sidebar where I wanted it to appear; till today.

If you have a widgetized theme and use those widgets you probably have never even thought about editing the sidebar.php file.  Many RE bloggers aren’t comfortable editing those files for fear of breaking their blog and theme.  However, most will add a widget to the sidebar using the widget functions under design in the newer versions of Wordpress.

Fun With Theme Widgets

I found a new plugin for building Theme widgets called Fun With Theme Widgets

This is a pretty cool plugin all on it’s own.  Activate the plugin create a yourwidgetname.widget.php file and put it in your current theme directory. When you go into Design, Widgets you will see your newly created widget in the list.  Drag the widget where you want it to appear and save the changes.  That is all there is to it.

Since starting this post I’ve learned more about the process of using Scenius and what it is doing.  It is very creative and a good way to syndicate quality local content.  Please Note I’m not talking about splogging local content. I”m talking about providing links to local content of interest to the readers on your blog, even if some of that content might be from another local RE blog.

I’ve created two widgets ready to be placed in your theme directory once you unzip them. One for Scenius and one for Phoenix Headlines.

If you have been wanting to try the Scenius code but weren’t sure how to get it into your widgetized theme this process should make it much simpler.

(UPDATE:) You can use the Delicious Widget in ways you can’t use Scenius code.  Again, this is a learning process and the more I learn about the Scenius process it is nothing like the Delicious Widget.  Like comparing apples to oranges.  They are both fruit and there the similarities end.  Scenius is just getting rolling and like any tool, used properly it will be of great value, used improperly it has potential for misuse.  But then again so does a lot of tech tools we use everyday.  I still use email but hate the spam that comes in.  Scenius scene is still being painted.

The Delicious Widget

The Delicious Widget does something similar in this sense.  I install the widget and tell it what tag to be looking for to display in the sidebar.  Anytime I find an article or post on the web that fits that tag I tag it with my special tag and it shows up in my delicious widget on the sidebar.

Not the same process, but very similar results.  You can read all about the plugin in an earlier post “Using the delicious plugin“.

However,  I have a feeling there is more to the Scenius scene than we have yet scene.  Being able to put future revelations and manifestations in widgets should be beneficial to Scenius end users.