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You’re welcome! Glad you worked it out.

I don’t know where you added it, but it doesn’t show up in https://www.nevis1.com/nevis1blog/wp-content/themes/Tiga/style.php

Add this to the top of the header.php of your theme:
function htmlize($buffer) {
return (preg_replace("!s*/>!", ">", $buffer));
}
ob_start("htmlize");

That will strip the self-closing bits.

Wrap the adsense code in a div, place it before the post content, then float that div either left or right.

Instead of that you should add the following to the stylesheet in your theme:

h1 a { text-indent: -9999px; }

Why would you want to do that?

I hear you. First thing I did when I upgraded to WP 2.0 was to turn off the tinyMCE “visual rich” editor. I like to have complete control over my code.

And you brought the layout right back into the last century with tables! OMG! Time to do some reading up on XHTML and CSS then.

As WordPress doesn’t check for validity and well-formedness of user input, you cannot rely on WP to always produce valid and well-formed XHTML. This means that the smallest mistake will make (part of) your site inaccessible — all browsers that accept real XHTML will display an error message instead of the content. Do you really want to go that way?

I know what I’m talking about, because I have used real XHTML myself for some time. It is not impossible, but it is impractical.

It’s your NeoCounter script that loads in a whole lot of images from that site — all the flags and maps. That certainly slows things down…

Hat tip to Firefox’ LiveHTTPHeaders extension!

Does it work when you disable the Text Control plugin or when you turn off the rich text editor?

Example page online?

Use something like this: https://berkano.net/files/scripts/style.phps

Fonts, colours and sizes and so on are regulated in the stylesheet.

That’s because those widgets are not set up very flexibly, and follow the default WP way of sidebar blocks as list items.

Look at the way I override the default widgets in the functions.php of my OutThere theme, that should help you out.