WordPress has a nice new theme, TwentyEleven, that I liked so much I’ve added it to some of my sites.

However, one issue is that little gray bar that appears at the top. Normally it’s not a problem, but when I use the dark display (as I did on UtopiaMechanicus.com) it becomes quite visible.

If you have the same problem, here’s how to turn it off – just edit your style.css file for the theme, and look for this text:

#branding {

border-top: 2px solid #bbb;

padding-bottom: 10px;

position: …

The Latest Issue of ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’ is now ready.

Topics:

What’s New With ActiveBlogging.

WordPress 3.2! The July 4th celebration – not that one – this one – WordPress 3.2 arrives…

Modding The TwentyEleven Theme. It’s nice – but it could be even nicer…

Cleaning Up After Utopia… Members have a lot of plugins at their disposal – but what to do when you remove them? Here’s a handy tool to troubleshoot and manage the utopia family of plugins.

Internet Offers And Current Deals

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For those of you that know, my wife Gwen, author of the Plant Lady Mystery Series (one so far!) is working on her second. To drum up support, I’ve started an IndieGoGo.com event to raise awareness and build her fan base (of course, money doesn’t hurt!)

If you’re a fan of mysteries (specifically, ‘cozy mysteries’, I believe they are called), then drop over to Gwen’s IndiGoGo event and take a peek. And check out the perks on the right hand side – “thank yous” for helping out.

And even if …

Shortcodes are little codes that plugin developers can use to add features, generally in the article text. For example, my post on syntax highlighting required custom shortcodes for language display (like [c]).

Here’s the problem: since shortcodes are meant to DO something, how do you go about documenting them?

Well, one option is to use a double entry, like this:

[[c]]

WordPress understands that you are not using a shortcode, simply displaying it, and it will correct the issue, giving you the display of [c], and no activating.

However, what if …

On one of my other blogs I post a lot of source code – code that others can copy and use. And sometimes it can be a chore – until now.

For quite some time I’ve used the old fashioned way of adding code – work in the HTML editor, the switch to the Visual editor and paste in code so that it formats it “HTML safe” (like changing the test ‘less than’ in code from < to &lt;)

But with a new plugin, my code can be quickly formatted …