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.
Dean has been playing around with programming ever since his family got an IBM PC back in the early 80's. Things have changed since BASICA and Dean has dabbled in HTML, JavaScript, Action Script, Flex, Flash, PHP, C#, C++, J2ME and SQL. On this site Dean likes to share his adventures in coding. And since programming isn't enough of a time killer, Dean has also picked up the hobby of short film creation.
So, did it work? I can’t get the sidebar to work in Firefox either.
Yes, I got it to work.
You have to do a couple of modifications.
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.
<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.