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A few days ago John Burton contacted me asking if I knew why he couldn’t get Wordpress MU to show embedded YouTube videos and podcasts that he was working with. To tell the truth, I had no idea, but I agreed to check it out with him. He was quicker then I and found an easy way to fix it .

Turns out Wordpress MU filters the code and disables the embed features. How do you fix it?

Edit wp-include/kses.php. In that file search for “Post filtering” and then comment out the following lines:

// Post filtering
//add_filter(’content_save_pre’, ‘wp_filter_post_kses’);

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Edit: This tip has been made into a Wordpress plugin! Get it here

I found an easy Wordpress trick that I think some of you may find useful. As I was writing an article for Simply-Basic.com the other day, I kept having to search through my 12-15 tabs that were open to find which one held my WP-Admin interface (I really should have just closed half of them). See, Wordpress’ back end doesn’t have a favicon associated with it, so it blends in fairly easily.

To fix this, I decided to give my Wordpress administrative pages a favicon. The process is amazingly simple. First, create a favicon or download my Wordpress-esque favicon (right click the image and select “Save Image…

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I just found a great reference for anyone who makes, ports, or just edits WordPress themes. WP Candy has made a PDF with an impressive list of code snippets for Wordpress. The list is put together nicely, and well organized. According to their website, the PDF has code for “basic template files, PHP snippets for the header, PHP snippets for the templates, and extra stuff for WordPress.” This looks mighty useful, I’ll be using it while I’m updating Simply-Basic.com’s design. Check it out here.

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I’ve had a number of people email me this past week and ask how I got code to show up so nicely in my post about a Fisheye Menu Script. The standard way is to use the <code> HTML tags. Unfortunately, even if you don’t use a WYSIWYG HTML editor, Wordpress still tries to clean up your code and seems to ignore the <code> tags. So how can you get around this?

There is an easy way. After looking for 30 minutes one day on the best way to effectivly publish code on my blog, here it is. And it’s actually remarkably simple.

First, download a plugin called “Preserve Code Formatting” by coffe2code here. Refer to the…