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Tabbing systems are becoming increasingly popular in all forms of web design, not just Wordpress. This is expected, as they are a very unique and effective way of displaying alot of content in a small amount of space. Common uses of tabs in Wordpress include displaying popular posts, recent comments, post categories, etc, etc… You get the idea. Here are some of the more popular solutions to getting yourself a fully-functional tabbing system in just a few minutes:

1. StereoTabs – Simple tabbing system, part of the scriptaculous library.
2. DOMTabs – I’ve heard good things about this system.
3. TabMenu – Another great and lightweight tabbing system.
4. Tabifier – Another lightweight javascript tabbing script.
5. UI Tabs – Powerful tabbing system run off of jQuery.

I’m obviously a fan of Jide’s Freshy2 theme, it’s the theme I use on this site. However, in order to do some of the fancy stuff within the theme you’re required to also use Jide’s Customize plugin. The Customize plugin provides css based customization for themes. It’s allows themers offer customization options with their theme really easily, just with a few css tricks! Sounds cool right? It is… unless you’re using Wordpress 2.6. Apparently, WP 2.6 uses a new version of scriptaculous and it conflicts with the theme/plugin. What you’ll see is an inability to see the media buttons when writing posts, among other things. No word from Jide on when an official fix will be issued, however Nestle Poell has compiled a collection of fixes which should make the plugin work (at least mostly work) so that you can use the Freshy2 theme.

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