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See that View Archives button to the upper right? That's where they went.

I found a tutorial over at Asymptomatic on how to create a shelf. Got the one working under the banner. Still working on the one in the sidebar to the right. It doesn't want to close.

Lots of fun.

While Owen includes sample code, his site uses a different version so it kind of threw me off for a bit. As he puts it, it's a case of "do as I say, not as I do." Oh well. It works now.

Now we get to slide it over to the webcomic.

IDreamInRed asked me for an example of how WordPress handles a trackback. I've copied it below: Let's explain this first. I first made a post back here on April 29th, 2005 where I ran my characters through a scene from Star Trek 2, the Wrath of Khan. Yesterday, I came up with another scene of the same general idea. To give my visitors something else to read I placed a link at the bottom of the second story. Wordpress will take this as a trackback. Some blog softwares will not.

To play it doubly safe, I also placed a trackback in the box under Trackbacks on my Write Post page. That's why you see two pages on the screenshot, not just one like you would normally see.

Hope this helps,
-drmike

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Cakeordeath asked if we could use formatting on the post text. This was an attept to see if we could. Italics works. Can't try bold as my titles are already in bold.

WHOA! Donncha makes a post over at the Wordpress.com blog and announces that we have a new function here at WP.com - The 'Next Blog' button.

Gotta admit that I don't like this feature. Sorry. Not for anything bad about it or anything. I've just used it over at Blogger and I always wound up with going to porn blogs, splogs, and the like. *shrug* But lots of people requested it and I can understand what a neat tool it is so I guess we can live with it.

Oh, and where's the 'previous blog' button?

FAQ for Uploading a Picture to Your WP.com Space and Adding it to a Post.

Please note that the picture must be uploaded to your blog space for it to be seen. They can not remain on your local computer nor should you be using pictures hosted offsite as this just wastes other people's bandwidth.

Please also respect copyright and give the source of where you found this picture if it's someone elses. I found the kittie picture at randomdialogue.net via a Google image search for "random picture."

The thumbnails below lead to full sized pictures.

1 - Get a picture and save it to your local computer. WP.com appears to be able to use most graphic formats. These include *.jpg, *.gif, *.png, etc.

2 - The next step is to begin creating your post. Sign into your blog and click on the link to "Write a Post." This will bring you to your "Write Post" screen. Please note that for this FAQ, I am using the simple text editor, not the advanced one, as I want complete control over what goes into the post and I want to see my html.

3 - Write your post like you normally would. Make sure you fill in all sections of the form like you normally do, such as Title, Post, Categories (if you use them), Trackbacks, etc.

4 - Let's now work on uploading the picture to your webspace. Before we do that though, you need to decide where in your post you want the picture. Within the "Post" space of the form, click your mouse where you would like the picture to go. DO NOT touch this text area again until the uploading of the picture is complete or you will move the picture.

- Under the "Post" text area, you will see another form with the labels "Upload", "Browse", and "Browse All." This is what we're going to use for uploading your picture to your webspace.

- Click on the "Upload" tab.

- To the right of the File text box, you'll see a button labeled "Browse..." Click on this button. This will open a standard search box within your OS. Locate your picture on your hard drive and select it. Once you have it selected, the search box will close and you will see that the File textbox is now filled in with the location of the picture on your hard drive.

- Fill in the "Title" and "Description" text areas with any text information that you require. Note that this space is for text only, no links.

- Once everything is filled in, click on the upload button. This will upload your picture to your webspace. The "Browse" tab should now be highlighted and a small thumbnail of your picture should now be presented.

- Congrats! Your picture is now within your WP.com space.

5 - The next step is moving your picture over to your post. This only takes a few steps.

- Click on the thumbnail of your picture. You'll now get a small menu of five options. I'm going to list what you need to do with them to more your picture over and then explain them towards the end of this FAQ.

- Leave the "Using Thumbnail" as is.

- Change the "Not Linked" selection to `Linked to Image." You can do this by clicking on the "Not Linked" line and the selection will change.

- Click on "Send to Editor." This will fill in the necessary HTML code within the "Post" text area.

- Click on the "Close Options" selection just to get rid of it.

- Congrats! Your picture has now been added to your post.

6 - Finish up with your post if there is anyting else you need to add to it and click on "Publish" button once you are ready.

View the blog. You should see your picture included within your post. If you click on the thumbnail, it will load the full size picture within your broswer.

Comments are now locked on this post. This is not the Wordpress.com Forums. If you need assistance, you need to ask for it over there. But looking at the 5 or 6 comments that are left here every day, I have got to say that 99% of you are not reading the instructions above. Please do so before asking for assistance.

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Borders on Wordpress posts appear to be dependant on the theme that you use.

Matt posts on the WordPress.com Blog that the staff has enabled two experimental importers Thursday. These will allow users of Blogger, Typepad, and Movable Type to import their previous posts from those systems into new blogs here at WP.com. He stresses the importers are experimental and may not work 100%. He asks for feedback from those who use the new importers.

The thing I like about them is that they also handle comments, a frequent request made in the support forums here at Wp.com.

Thanks Matt.

Matt (Is there anything he doesn't do around here?) has put out a request for assistance in developing and testing portions of the WordPress package. This is in addition to the previous list of ways people can help. You can view the various sections where help is needed and offer your services. Volunteers will be contacted in about a week.

Matt posts that Wordpress.com has expanded the number of languages supprted here at the site to 119. While that's great and I give my thanks to the Wordpress staff for doing such a thing, I would love to see the language choices that we make show up in the Dashboard we see when we log in. It's kind of a small pain to see posts made here that I can't read, especially since they do by so fast when only the last 15 get listed.

Matt posts about a change the staff has made to the Wordpress software where the blogger gets to determine the primary language of the blog. Matt mentions that in the future, the staff will be looking at modifing the back end for the different languages.

I just wish that the latest 30 posts part of the Dashboard would be of your language. :)

-drmike