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Sidebar and Firefox

Firefox has changed the default functionality of the browser sidebar. Before in Mozilla, you could have tabs for different types of side bar content. Now, you can only have one sidebar type at a time. However, you can set a bookmarked page to open in your sidebar when clicked. This is how I am using the WordPress sidebar. It creates a small form version of the write form so you can surf the web and publish it. I particularly like this feature.

When WordPress upgraded to 1.5, they did some changes to the template layouts and apparently they added header tags that broke the sidebar function. I modified one of the pages and this is my test to see if I didn’t break a bunch of stuff.

Tags: FireFox
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2 Responses to “Sidebar and Firefox”

1. 
   Damien

   So, did it work? I can’t get the sidebar to work in Firefox either.
   March 17th, 2005 at 2:46 pm
2. 
   Dean Logan

   Yes, I got it to work.
   You have to do a couple of modifications.

   1. It seems to be blowing up at the require_once(‘admin-header.php’);

      In the admin-header.php file I commented out
      @header('Content-type: ' . get_option('html_type') . '; charset=' . get_option('blog_charset'));

      and it seems to work now. I can’t see any bad effect to the rest of the admin site.

   2. In the sidebar.php file, look for the
      <a href="sidebar.php" rel="nofollow">Click here</a> to post again.
      and change it to
      <a href="sidebar.php" target="_self" rel="nofollow">Click here</a> to post again.
   March 24th, 2005 at 7:53 am