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You will notice the tag cloud, just below the Flickr pictures in the sidebar. These replace the old categories that I used before. You will also notice that the more entries a tag has, the bigger it is. (Presently they are in order of number of posts, but they may move to alphabetical later on.)
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EDIT: The issue below will be fixed in Canvas.
Just a quick little thing I learned while making some blocks for Canvas today.
When putting in the description, if you use an apostrophe, you will need to escape it. That is, you will need to put a backslash in front of it.
For example, I made a block [...]

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Canvas, as I mentioned before, is a new plug-in for WordPress. It allows for the easy modification of specialized Canvas themes (as of this witting there are only 2 publicly available). What is basically does is takes the concept of sidebar widgets and takes it to the extreme and makes nearly everything on the page [...]

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If I activate the following in my CSS, for some reason the items go on a single line:
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CSS:

.feed {

    background: url(/images/rss.gif) no-repeat left top;

    padding: 2px 0 8px 20px;

}

The HTML for the section in question is:
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HTML:

<h2><?php _e('Subscribe'); ?></h2>

<p><a href="sniped php code">Entries</a></p>

<p><a href="sniped php code">Comments</a></p>

<br />

The <br /> had to [...]

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I am trying out a new plugin for WordPress called Canvas. This may change things more drastically than the introduction of widgets for the sidebar. I can't even begin to say how cool the potential for this is. After people have time to convert their themes to be Canvas compatible, I would guess that Canvas [...]

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