WebbleYou is pleased to offer private domain registration for $10/year. This makes it easier than ever to start a website, with the security of private registration but without the hassle or expense of going through a separate domain registrar. Find and order a domain here.

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You can use your own link engine to hide outgoing links such as affiliate links. For example, if you wanted to direct visitors to Amazon when they visit yourblog.com/go/books, you could take the following steps:

1. Login to your site via FTP, and create a folder called go in your webroot (e.g. /www or /public_html or /httpdocs folder).
2. Create a file containing lines like this:
   Redirect /go/keyword http://www.destination-url.com/affiliate-code
   Name this file .htaccess (note the leading period) and upload it to the new go directory. Note: Windows will not let you name a file .htaccess on your PC. Give it another name and rename it to .htaccess after uploading.
3. Now we have to make WordPress ignore the “go” folder, or else it will redirect users into a WordPress error page. Open your main .htaccess file (the one in your webroot directory) and look for this line:
   # END WordPress
   Add this line after it:
   RewriteRule ^go/.*$ - [PT]
4. Add more outgoing link keywords and URLs by editing the .htaccess file in your /go directory whenever you want.

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WebbleYou was commissioned by a client to widget-ize the excellent Blix theme for WordPress. You can download the widgetized version here: ZIP | tar.gz

WordPress widgets are a project of Automattic. The Widgets plugin requires WP2.0.2 (which we pre-install by default).

Notes:

• Blix was released for Version 1.5, but it works with WP2.0.x (which is required for using widgets).
• Blix uses different icons for different sidebar elements. If a sidebar element uses lists other than those specified in the stylesheet, they will be bulleted with the same icon used for categories. I think.

If you notice any issues, please let us know. If you would like WebbleYou to widget-ize a theme for you, we can do so for around $20 (depending on the complexity and your needs). Contact us to discuss details.

Note: This theme was last updated on May 1, 2006. If you downloaded the theme prior to that date, you will have RSS feed problems and other issues; please use the new version, which fixes these problems.

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To specify a different banner image for each “page” on your WordPress-powered site, you can use the is_page conditional tag. If you’re using the Kubrick theme or a theme based on Kubrick (about 80% of WP themes are), this code or something like it should do the trick. Edit your header.php and replace the #header { … } style line with:

#header { background: url("/images/ (is_page('1')) {
echo "about.jpg";
} elseif (is_page('2')) {
echo "photos.jpg";
} elseif (is_page('3')) {
echo "calendar.jpg";
} elseif (is_page('4')) {
echo "donate.jpg";
} elseif (is_page('5')) {
echo "contact.jpg";
} elseif (1) {
echo "default-banner.jpg";
} ?>“) no-repeat bottom center; }


You can of course add or delete elseif statements to match the number of pages you have, and change the filenames to match your banners. The number in quotes in each is_page statement is the page ID, which you can see when editing the page.

To use a random header image each time, see Flash JPG rotator.

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