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Help! This New Theme Messed Up My Site and Now I Want to Cry

A funny thing can happen when you change your WordPress theme. . . No, it doesn’t make you laugh, it’s more likely to make you cry. It’s funny weird, not funny ha-ha. Your sidebars, header, and/or footer get all messed up. Stuff is in all sorts of places it doesn’t belong. It’s pretty weird when …

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7 things you need to know about WordPress widgets

7 Things you Need to Know about WordPress Widgets

Widgets may just be the most misunderstood part of WordPress. They’re not plugins, though many of them are created by plugins. They do so many different things, they’re not easy to characterize. About the only generalization you can make about them is that widgets know their place, and stay there. Here are seven things all …

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