An image with a caption, the new WP 2.6 feature

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To create a blockquote like this, use use the “b-quote” button in the Wordpress editor when in Visual mode, or surround your quote with <blockquote> ... </blockquote> while in HTML (WP 2.3 and earlier: “Code”) mode.

And here’s another blockquote, this time with a second blockquote inside. Use this to quote a quote, or even quote yourself, if you will:

Trying out a link within a blockquote here. Not many, if any, themes will have a special styling for such a link though. It’s good enough if it works.

This is the blockquote within a blockquote. It should stand out and not look like yet another blockquote after the one before.

This is the end of the main blockquote which contains that other blockquote from above.

Blockquotes are not hard to style but they can break in IE6 if there’s a background or a border around the blockquote and the theme author didn’t look close enough.

The comments area is often a weak point especially in mediocre themes. Not a big deal for sites that barely have comments or don’t allow them anyway, but important for “bloggy” blogs with decent comment activity.

NOTE: Even if the theme doesn’t add margin to images automatically, you can still do this manually through the WordPress editor.

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With caption

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Heading h2

Text again

Heading h3

Even more text

Heading h4

Now on to code, pre and address formatting:

Code, for snippets of code:

<?php echo "Hello World!"; ?>

Pre: To display text exactly as it is typed, with spaces included.

Some pre text and now 5 spaces     and 3 spaces   .

Finally, an address formatting:

To use these formattings in your theme, switch to “HTML” (in WP 2.3 and older: “Code“) mode in your Wordpress editor, and surround the to-be-formatted text snippets with <h2> ... </h2> (or h3, h4, h5, h6), <code> ... </code>, <pre> ... </pre> or <address> ... </address>.

• work in IE6, too
• not have a very, very small font, or dark font on a dark background
• not use deprecated Wordpress code, so there’s a chance it’ll still work in the next WP version
• not use encrypted code, because you never know whether it is malicious or not

And here is an ordered list:

1. One
2. Two
3. Three
4. Four
5. Five

The ordered lists are less commonly used, so if they don’t look good in this theme but you DO like the theme you could use the theme anyway and simply avoid ordered lists. Or, get another Wordpress Theme.

In single.php, add this line

<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>

after the line that begins with

<?php the_content ...

and do the same in page.php, if you want to have the pagination in “Pages”, too. You can also fine tune the Wordpress pagination. To actually use pagination in your posts or pages, insert

<!-–nextpage-–>

… whereever you want the post or page to be split into parts. Make sure to insert that tag into the text while being in “HTML” (in WP 2.3.x and older: “Code“) mode in the Wordpress editor. If you’re on the main page of this blog, click through to the single post to see (or not see) the links to the parts 1, 2, 3 of this post at the bottom of each post part. The pagination should start right after this.

If smilies look strange in this theme but you like the theme and DO want to use smilies, you can fix the smiley style by adding the following to the bottom of the file style.css in your theme folder:

img.wp-smiley {
float: none ; /* don’t float smilies */
border: none; /* no borders */
margin: 0 3px; /* 0 top/bottom, 3px left/right
salt to taste */
}

Your post proceeds here. Your blog readers will see this (second) part of your post once they’ve clicked through to the post. The “More” tag might read “Read More” or “Continue reading” in this theme. You can customize the “Read More” tag if you don’t like its content.