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Styling your ordered & unordered list items into 2 columns

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In a previous post I showed you how to create a custom widget, then I showed you how to create a widget for your monthly archives, and limit the month’s that show. I am showing the past 4 months in my widget at this time.

One of my readers: Alex asked:

How did you make the archives widget to show the dates separately into two columns?

Now I will show you a CSS trick to create this effect:

First we will give the unordered list a width of 100%:

ul#archives {
	width:110%;
	}

Then we will style the <li> nested inside.

ul#archives li {
	display:inline;
	float:left;
	width:120px;
	}

And that is it. Please make sure that you clear the float after your closing </ul>.

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Disable caching of your site or post

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August 24, 2025

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I talked about Disabling search engine on search pages in a previous post using the meta tag. Today lets go over the web bots Cached copy of your site. If you are working on builder your blog, or have a temporary site up, use the following code:

<meta name="robots" content="noarchive">

This will tell any bot to follow your site, index it, but prevents a cached copy of this page from being available in the search results.

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Disable search engine on search pages

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August 23, 2025

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A good idea when trying to get the most out of your blog is usging the meta tag to tell the web bots to search & index your site. But for good SEO you should apply this code in your header.php file of your WordPress blog.

<?php if(is_search()) { ?>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />
<?php }?>

This will keep your site from getting a hit from bots over duplicate entries. 🙂

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Run PHP5 on your PHP4 Server

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August 22, 2025

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Here is a really neat trick! Access your PHP5 while running PHP4.

If you haven’t created a .htaccess file, you may want to check out the WordPress Codex on permalink structure.

Anyway, open any text editing document and paste in this code:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

That’ it! Save your text document as .htaccess and your server should parse all .php files as PHP5

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