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I wanted all my urls to contain the tittle of the article like http://www.quentinrademaker.com/2009/03/new-gaming-mouse-from-sharkoon/ instead of http://www.quentinrademaker.com/?p=684 which is not very attractive SEO solution. A simple mod_rewrite rule like the following would fail with a 403 Access forbidden error:

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

I was puzzled for a while seeing I didn’t have any problems over at Strato (apart from being slow as hell). I must admit that eversince I swithced I have never ever had any problems, everything else works like clockwork at Hostway. Sadly they don’t have any support on sunday’s so I had to find a solution myself. I don’t like waiting to get help from someone else, that is if I can find the solution myself ;-)

After a few cokes and a pack of smokes I finally found the answer. A simple search with Google got me reading a discussion at WordPress that provided the solution. Putting the following at the top of the .htaccess file works for me:

Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks -Indexes -MultiViews

Now all links are working as they should gving it it’s SEO friendly look. I hope this info will help others as well, this solution does not only apply to Hostway clients. If you come across the same issue over at your hosting provider feel free to try this solution. If it works for you please let me know by leaving a reply. It might help others with the same issue as well ;-)

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You might have tried to create those extra spaces by using a point or dot between your paragraphs but it doesn’t look very professional. So how the hell can you have multiple line breaks in your posts?

To add an extra line break use this code :

<p align="left"> </p>

Go to the Code tab in your wordpress post and paste the code anywhere you want an additional line space. As a reminder, the tag simply means a white empty space.

Note : Do not remove the align=”left” otherwise Wordpress visual editor will delete the whole tag!

Voila! Hope this will do the trick! Leave your feedback.

I knew that I was probably doing something wrong, but since I didn’t have time to find it out, I just kept choosing “none” as the alignment, and then I would manually insert the right, left or center alignment attribute on the image tag.

I got a message saying that since version 2.5 WordPress themes were required to have the following code on their stylesheet but even themes for WP2.6 and up have the same issue (nobody seems to ad this modification in their themes). But you can fix it by adding the following to your themes css stylesheet….

img.centered {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
img.alignright {
padding: 4px;
margin: 0 0 2px 7px;
display: inline;
}
img.alignleft {
padding: 4px;
margin: 0 7px 2px 0;
display: inline;
}
.alignright {
float: right;
}
.alignleft {
float: left;
}

Now if you faced this problem in the past, now you know how to solve it.