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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 23:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wp_list_pages() template tag forms the navigation core of most WordPress-powered websites, but it has a few issues: The exclude_tree parameter doesn&#8217;t work. If you include a list of page ID numbers after &#8220;exclude_tree=&#8221; in your wp_list_pages() tag, all of those pages (and all of their child pages) are supposed to be excluded from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldozark.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4247670&amp;post=727&amp;subd=michaeldozark&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress Wednesday: How to Use paginate_comments_links Only When You Really Mean It</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Dozark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was pretty happy when WordPress added paginate_comments_links because now I didn&#8217;t have to write a custom function to break blog comments into separate pages and give them a nice navigation (instead of just &#8220;next&#8221; and &#8220;previous&#8221;). However, I like to put my navigation in a div, and I like to style that div&#8230;and it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldozark.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4247670&amp;post=707&amp;subd=michaeldozark&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Health Insurance Is and Isn&#8217;t</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Dozark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not going to use this blog to stump for any particular side of the health care debate, but I want to clear up a misconception that&#8217;s been bothering me since the debate began. Many of the arguments made for reform include comments about insurance companies denying coverage to individuals with pre-existing conditions. This has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldozark.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4247670&amp;post=715&amp;subd=michaeldozark&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress Wednesday: Turn Any Shortcode into a Template Tag</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Dozark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I previously discussed WordPress&#8217;s shortcode API, which allows you to turn any function into a shortcode that you can embed in the content of your pages or posts. Though the example I gave was for a function I wrote, you can use this API for WordPress template tags. The easiest way is to get the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldozark.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4247670&amp;post=656&amp;subd=michaeldozark&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Survivor: Twitter &#8211; 3 Guidelines for Managing Who You Follow and Who Follows You</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Dozark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago was a first for me: I stopped following someone on Twitter. The person in question is a webcomic artist who is well known for the drama that swirls around him. I started following him for the chance to pick his brain on becoming successful with my own webcomic. Instead of insight [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldozark.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4247670&amp;post=655&amp;subd=michaeldozark&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CSS-Only Triangles with Hover Effects</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Dozark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was giddy when I saw this post about creating CSS triangles on Jon Rohan&#8217;s blog and quickly realized two things: I am officially a CSS geek. Because the code relies on creating a div with a height and width of 0, there is no way to create hover effects &#8212; which is fine if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldozark.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4247670&amp;post=665&amp;subd=michaeldozark&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Celebration of Love, Trust, Partnership, Tolerance and Tenacity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Dozark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About this time two years ago I was driving to the Portland, Oregon Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Days Saints to marry the love of my life when she called me on my cell phone. &#8220;We can&#8217;t do this,&#8221; she said to me (or something to that effect). I had only a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldozark.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4247670&amp;post=660&amp;subd=michaeldozark&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RPG Saturday: The Serial One-Shot – Coraline 2: Electric Boogaloo</title>
		<link>http://michaeldozark.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/the-serial-one-shot-caroline-2-electric-boogaloo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Dozark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Role-Playing Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coraline]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RPG Saturday is a weekly feature which discusses issues related to role-playing games using movies, television, etc. as examples. Note from Michael: It&#8217;s still Saturday for one hour (Pacific Time), so this still counts as an RPG Saturday post! In my last RPG Saturday post I made a passing reference to the serial one-shot, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldozark.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4247670&amp;post=644&amp;subd=michaeldozark&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress Wednesday: How to Transfer Your Plugin Data Using phpMyAdmin</title>
		<link>http://michaeldozark.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/how-to-transfer-your-plugin-data-using-phpmyadmin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Dozark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often use Stray Random Quotes for clients who want to display random testimonials (or quotes, natch) on their WordPress sites. Of course, I build their sites completely on my webspace to test them before installing on the client domain. While WordPress has export and import functions for pages, posts and media, my quotes don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldozark.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4247670&amp;post=636&amp;subd=michaeldozark&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Tuesday: Why to Not Be a Broadcaster (and How I&#8217;m Going to Stop)</title>
		<link>http://michaeldozark.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/twitter-tuesday-why-to-not-be-a-broadcaster-and-how-im-going-to-stop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Dozark</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy to fall into the trap of treating Twitter like a P.A. system; you tell everyone about the articles you&#8217;re reading online, your latest blog post or even the food you just had for dinner and expect that you&#8217;ll gain followers and readers. However, unless you&#8217;re a major brand or some kind of celebrity, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaeldozark.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4247670&amp;post=617&amp;subd=michaeldozark&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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