I’ve been playing with my theme and kind of broke it a bit.

So if it looks wonky, come back in a sec, and it will be different.

I’m wishing I had some php skills right now.

I have a great WordPress plugin to share with you as soon as I get my header.php back where it ought to be.

Reading time is minimal. Why not vote?

UPDATE:

What we have now is a drop-down dynamically-populated navigation bar, courtesy of a WordPress Plugin which you can read about here
This page only shows the simple code for your pages, but I wanted to have my archives and categories out of the sidebar, so I picked up my code on this page. Last item on the page is the one I used.

I have to clean up the appearance of it. The font is too large for my liking and I may mess with background colours.

It was very simple to implement. The problem that I had was when I messed with my header code, and uploaded the unmodified file. Der. Have backups on your hard drive. You can always get your original theme file if you want to go back to scratch.

I’ve been wanting to clean up my sidebars for quite a while now, to prepare for the time that I put up advertising. Since nobody loves my donate button, I figure ads may be the way to go. Mama wants her hosting fees paid. And a decent camera. And a laptop.

Even in my shameless hollering for votes and/or Stumbles, I have not promoted the teeny, tiny donate button. And, I don’t plan to. I put it in so I could have a customer correct her order for purple plates easily.

Now go vote for me in the blogger’s choice awards. *Grinning at Teeni*
And show me your new navigation bars. Please.

UPDATE PLUS:

Ryan Hellyer has streamlined his code, so that you can choose your options right on his page,and now you only have to add one line of code. If you are using his plugin in a live site, he will link to you.
I’m going to change mine, because who doesn’t love one line of code?

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I wanted to make me a shiny new blogroll, like Heather’s at OMSH
I went to the quintessential go-to geek guy Andy Bailey
and my heart, it did sing, with a mere line of code to insert in my sidebar. Andy wrote the fabulous WordPress plugin CommentLuv
and I have been thrilled to have the use of this brilliant plugin. It allows your commenters to leave a link to their last post, sharing the linky love.

(Unlike the grinchy Blogger/Google, which no longer allows the “Other” option, so you can link to your website outside Blogger, just by signing in. That is gone now. If you want a link with your sign-in on Blogger, you have to create a profile. Then the clever folks delete their blogger page and just list their real blog page under “Contact Me”) Whew! That was a mini-rant, but I feel so much better now.

What was I talking about?

I was so happy, I think I may have offered him my firstborn. Then I pestered Heather some more, and Andy some more, and neither has made outright death threats, although there might have been muttering somewhere. I’m hoping that Tell her to go suck an egg
wasn’t meant for me.

Andy also helped me to pretty up my categories without all that pesky, long-winded html, because, you know, php has all these built in functions.

Are your eyes bleeding from geek talk? Perhaps the fork you are sticking in them?

For those lucky WordPress bloggers (and my, I do love me some WordPress) who want to do their own, I will share the brilliant line of code that allows you to rotate your screenshot thumbnails. In your sidebar code, under this: <div id=”blogroll_headers”> Why, just pop this line of code in:

<?php wp_list_bookmarks(’title_before=<div>&title_after=</div>&show_images=1&show_description=1&orderby=rand&limit=3′); ?>

And your image blogroll links, they will rotate, showing three per page load.

If you want to be on my blogroll, just leave me a comment, and I will be happy to oblige. You should mention in the comment that you want on the blogroll.

Now, go forth and make your own! And go leave Andy some love.

Shameless self-promotion: Show me some freaking love. Go on, vote. You know you wanna. You have to register first, but you will make me very happy. Check your junk mail folder for the registration confirmation.