iamzippy

I guess what you’re into is creating a custom Page template. This would run your custom categories loop, or paste a copy of the loop from archive.php. You can enable comments on Pages (they’re allowed by default).

Once you’ve made your custom category template, create a new Page in Admin, and select your template’s name from the drop-down (the templates option doesn’t show until you have added at least one template). Make sure ‘allow comments’ is checked.

Any comments posted would attach to the Page, not the category posts within it.

One common cause of this is the Blog Visibility setting in Privacy. Often folks set this initially to block SEs while they get their blog’s act together, then forget that they did that. It happened to me. It was nothing to do with any plugin.

In Admin, Settings…Privacy…Blog Visibility: If you choose to block SEs, WordPress injects the robots meta ‘noindex, nofollow’.

Just choose the other option.

Hi themikerusso

I have not seen this facet of the development process addressed anywhere in the documentation

Probably because the excercise you’re describing sounds as much fun as drinking bleach while sticking rusty needles in one’s eye.

I don’t have the luxury of having a completely separate development server

Why not? PHP development packages are free for the major desktop OS’s and easy to set up. Treat yourself to a bit of luxury. And keep your sanity at the same time.

Or your money back ??

Interesting…

I just updated the page, and you must have been editing it as I was typing. I see you floated the divs, and now it looks ‘OK’ in IE6/7.

It also looks fine in FF, Opera, Safari.

Hi technotip.org

I’m checking your page with IE Developer Toolbar, ‘View DOM’.

Despite a CSS-specified width of 135px, your .narrow-left DIV has an offsetWidth of 180px (that’s the effective width) and .narrow-right is effectively 157px. To sit side by side they need at least 337px of space. The parent DIV is just 294px wide (by CSS).

IE is adding the 160px width of the Adsense link unit (in .narrow-left) to the 10px left/right padding on the DIV to get 180px.

Bottom line is, you just don’t have enough horizontal space to fit.

Have you considered using the IE DevToolbar? It’s a free download.

Also I’m curious why you have -10px side margins on these divs?