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Last week I wrote a post about how to insert an e-mail post link into your Wordpress weblog posts, using FeedBurner’s FeedFlare service. The link that is inserted can be formatted, and FeedBurner helpfully gives you the tags so that you can format the link with CSS. However, FeedBurner only explains how to change the formatting, not the actual text. The text reads “Email this”. To fully customize the link, instead of using the code supplied by FeedBurner, insert the following where you want the link to appear:


<a href="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailFlare?itemTitle=%3C?php%20
the_title%28%29;%20?%3E&uri=%3C?php%20the_permalink%28%29;%20?%3E">
Email post
</a>


This code will place an unformatted link into your code which says “Email post”. To change the link text, change the “Email post” in the code to whatever you want. Now to format the link, you can do so using whatever CSS formatting you want.

There are other more complicated methods to let your users e-mail your individual blog posts to themselves or friends. The solution that I suggest, and am currently employing on this site is the service provided by FeedBurner.com. FeedBurner’s main feature is that it burns your feed for you. If you are using […]

I just used the “Silk” icons from FamFamFam this past week to spruce up the site. I am really pleased with how the icons have changed the look of the site.
The icons are released under the Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0. They are free to use, all they ask for is a link […]

The BlackSky Wordpress Theme now has a new three column format. It features one main content column and two customizable sidebars on the right side of the screen. The sidebars are each slightly narrower than in the two column version, otherwise the two and three column versions are virtually identical. […]

I just finished making a couple of adjustments to the BlackSky 2 column theme and uploaded the zipped theme to the download page. Go to the gallery or the download page to read about and download the theme.
Changes that I made include addition of the top of page navigation button in the footer, and […]

Blacksky 1.0 is a two column, widget ready theme, with the sidebar on the right side of the screen.
There is a top navigation bar which allows you to navigate the Wordpress Pages that you create. The navigation bar displays the links made with the wp_list_pages() function, as does the pages list in the sidebar.
The […]

Just recently I was able to figure out how to display only the top categories of the weblog, without displaying all the children categories. I like to categorize my posts and nest the categories. However, that results in an unwieldy amount of categories and subcategories to choose from, when only the parent categories […]

When I wanted to change my weblog’s first page of results, the index page, index.php, I wanted to differentiate the first page of results from the subsequent results pages. When I initially changed my weblog I was able to figure out how to display the first page differently from the rest by using […]

I am currently attempting to modify my weblog here at bluejweblog.com. I want to install a “Static” front page to the blog. I then want to further customize the front page so that it captures entries from different categories and features them on the front page, rather than just have a running log […]