I wanted a way of listing the five most recent posts both below the actual post and on the home page. I discovered Customizable Post Listings which was an enhanced version of one developed by www.coffee2code.com that did exactly what I needed.

I encountered a small bug where it would not return the correct category link when using %post_categories_url% . It failed to return the actual category id (or name depending in your permalink structure). e.g. index.php?cat=

To correct the bug, on line 348 (or thereabouts) replace:

$category_link = get_category_link( $category->category_id );

with

$category_link = get_category_link( $category->cat_ID );

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Over the past few years, web sites are making use of as many ways as possible to force an income based on revenue streams from advertising.

This is fair enough, a lot of time and energy goes into writing articles that are worth reading.

Google ads and affiliate banners to name a few.

As users, we have now built up a blind spot to such ads despite what some bloggers claim to be making a month. Not to mention ad blocking tools such as Greasemonkey and Adblock for Firefox which have become the most effective ways to block the majority of online advertising.

I can just about cope with what site owners need to creatively do get us to notice the ads, but there is one technique that is becoming extremely troublesome and damn right annoying. They are the ones where when you mouse over a site, it pops up a thumbnail version of the site that the link points to.

AARRGGHH! Does having the ability to see a blurry, out of date thumbnail shot of the site prior to clicking on the link help in any way? For me, it has the opposite affect. It stops me from visiting the site purely as a result of its annoyance factor.

Not only that but the strain it puts on your browser has often required a process kill within the task manager. What prompted me to have this rant?