manstraw

1) no, they can also use plugins.

2) you can’t use widgets in a non-widget friendly theme

The benefit of widgetizing it is it lets someone who is afraid to edit files add something to a theme merely through the admin interface. If it’s not a widget, they need to get in there, edit files, and potentially break it.

Also, if they switch themes, they won’t need to edit the new theme files to use your plugin. So it can be a time saver even if they otherwise have the skills to add the function calls etc.

of course, not every plugin is appropriate as a widget.

the software used here is http://bbpress.org

But if you want something that is integrated within wordpress, you might consider xdforum http://www.xdweb.net/xdforum

you should have received a message saying it was already updated. did you see that?

You can install this forum software yourself. um, drawing a blank where you can download it …

you probably need to speak to your web host. when I go to your domain preview, without specifying the page I want, it shows a default placeholder page that your webhost automatically generates. if I go to index.php, I see the blog.

http://preview.hosts.co.uk/~womens-health.org.uk/index.php

they probably don’t have apache configured to check for an index.php file. tell them you will be using index.php and not index.html so they can make the appropriate adjustments to the apache conf file.

Most people will get the same error. Safari is one browser that will handle the feed: protocol, but your firefox friends will often go ‘huh?’.

One option you hvae is to edit your theme and remove feed: from the uri. People who have rss readers will understand they can copy the link and paste it into their rss reader. People who click on it will see the rss feed in their browser, but unformatted.

Or you could just leave it as it is, and put a little explanation with it.

feed: isn’t quite ready for prime time in my opinion. I’d really like to see firefox (and any browser) come with default behaviour when someone click on it. It *should* prompt you for an action, like to add it to your livebookmarks or something.

In the end, people who understand rss won’t have a problem with it as it is. People who don’t understand rss probably won’t click on it. And if they do, well, perhaps it’s best to let them be confused.

give it a year or so, and maybe we’ll be prime time with this.

oh, and you have a parse error with your feed. this is why sage won’t understand it. separate issue. http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwolfeislandmusicfest.com%2Ffeed%2F I think the reason for this is because you need to set a proper nickname for your admin user.

Doesn’t sound that basic if you ask me! 🙂

Do you really need 3 blogs? Or do you need three categories within a blog?

Putting flash games up might require you to write the code into a page template. Just trying to post the code to display the flash into a wordpress editable page might not work. But the good news is that creating a custom page template with your flash code is fairly simple.

What is your permalinks line in wordpress with the index.php version, and what is the .htaccess file reading?