Just spent a few minutes figuring this out, being a completely n00b with php it ended up being really simple. Just replace the bottom line of your header.php where it includes breadcrumbs with the following code:
<?php if (is_home()) { ?>
<?php } else { ?>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/breadcrumbs.php’); ?>
<?php } ?>
I posted a few days ago about how to prevent wordpress from inserting <br \> and made a note that I would have to do a bit more research to figure out how to disable the <p>’s . Well a bit more research later I’ve found the solution to getting rid of all the bloody tags that WP throws in there.
What you need to do is to go into your wp-content/plugins directory and either create a new directory and copy the following into a .php file or simply put this into a file into the plugins directory:
<?php
/* Plugin Name: WP Unformat
* Plugin URI: http://wpvibe.com
* Author: Jonathan Dingman
* Author URI: http://jonathan.vc
* Version: 1.0
* Description: Disables the <p> that is automatically inserted by WordPress
*/remove_filter(‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’);
?>
Of course credit is due to Jonathan Dingman for writing this simple little ditty, but I can say it works great! Also you should undo any edits to the formatting.php file if you want to use the above
Bad Laptop, Bad!
Alright so easily one of the most frustrating things about having a laptop is the god damn touch pad. Either it’s jumping all over the place while you are typing, or misinterpreting a middle click and pasting junk everywhere or any number of other frustrating things it can do to make your life miserable. Lucky for us Ubuntu allows you to dig around and reconfigure just about every aspect of the way it interacts with your hardware, touchpad included.
So today I sat down and put in the time to finally get my touch pad working the way I want it to work and this is what I came up with:
There are a few ways to handle this. On the Ubuntu wiki they suggest that you Install the DKMS driver package provided in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/308191 (comment #115, #116). Reboot, and go to System > Preferences > Mouse > Touchpad and select “Two-finger scrolling”.
But to be honest this just isn’t precise enough for me and I feel much more comfortable editing system files than going through the GUI so this is how I take care of that:
#!/bin/bash
synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=0
synclient EmulateTwoFingerMinW=5
synclient EmulateTwoFingerMinZ=48
It should be pretty self-explanatory what those values mean. The only thing left to do with this is to make this program start at boot time. You need to chmod this program to 755 or r+x and then you can go into system->preferences->startup applications and add it or type update-rc.d FILENAME defaults , obviously replacing FILENAME with whatever you called it.
So again you can go into system/prefs/mouse and set this to off, but once again it’s a limited shitty way to accomplish what you want accomplished here. There is a little program called syndaemon that controls this sort of thing and it will allow you to fine tune it a lot more. The main problem with doing it through the gui is that you can’t control the delay that occurs between finishing typing and when the touchpad is activated again. By default it is .5 seconds or aruond there which is way to short and will result in the touch pad coming back to life and wreaking havoc on you after the smallest pause in typing. We want this to be between 1-2 seconds and so for that we can create the following little script, again placing it in /etc/init.d that contains the following:
#!/bin/bash
syndaemon -i 2 -d
If you want to adjust that delay time just change the 2 to something smaller or larger, whatever suits your needs. Follow the rest of the instructions above to make it a startup script and you are good to go
Now all of the above stuff is great but to be honest even then it doesn’t get the touchpad out of the way 100% of the time while you are typing and especially if you have a usb mouse plugged in you probably want to just turn the whole damned thing off to save yourself the headache. But if the headache of turning it on and off is greater than it is causing in the first place then what’s the point right? Well I did a little bit of simple bash scripting today and came up with the following script that will allow you to toggle the damned thing at the touch of a button.
If you don’t have a ~/.local/bin directory now then go ahead and make one, it’s a real handy place to have for custom scripts. You are also going to have to add that path to your environment, I do that by simply putting the following in my ~/.bashrc:
PATH=”$HOME/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games”
Before we can properly make our script we need to find the ID number for your touchpad. You do this by typing xinput -list in shell and looking for the touchpad. It should have an ID= next to it with your ID number. My touchpad is device #14 so I use 14 in the script below but if yours is different you will need to change that number to correspond with your touchpad’s ID.
Inside your ~/.local/bin/ directory you are going to create a file, I call mine toggle_touchpad and insert the following code:
#!/bin/bash
idNum=$(xinput -list | awk /Synaptics/ | grep -o “id=..” | sed ‘s/id=//’)
state=$(/usr/bin/xinput -list $idNum | grep “disabled”)if [[ $state ]]
then
/usr/bin/xinput set-prop $idNum “Device Enabled” 1
else
/usr/bin/xinput set-prop $idNum “Device Enabled” 0
fi
This guy just looks up the state of your touchpad, greps it for the word disabled and if it finds that word it assumed the touchpad is off and turns it on, if it doesn’t find that word it assumes the touchpad is on and turns it off. Easy Peasy. Now just go to system –>Preferences –> Keyboard Shortcuts and create a shortcut for that command and you’re done.
Now, finally your touchpad nightmares should be over and you can live a laptop life without fear and dread of it destroying data, pasting garbage everywhere or moving your cursor where it doesn’t belong.
Huzzah!
So after having the edge of my hand touch my touchpad and mess up an email for the upteenth time today I went around and did some research to see if there was a quick shortcut key or something I could press to turn the bloody thing off and then on again when I was done typing. Well let me tell you I found something so much better! There’s a command in shell that will automatically disable the touchpad if you’ve been typing for a set amount of time and then turn it back on automatically when you’re done.. Genius! Genius I say!! But what is this command you ask? How do you enable it to save yourself endless frustration? Well I’m glad you asked because I was just about to explain it:
The program is syndaemon and it can be enabled in shell by typing: syndaemon -i 3 -d
Where
If above command throws some error then you are using other than 9.04 release. To get it working type in terminal,
wget http://people.ubuntuwire.com/~fujitsu/syndaemon chmod +x syndaemon sudo mv syndaemon /usr/bin/ syndaemon -i 3 -d
Again type the syndaemon command in terminal, it shouldn`t give any error messages.
Above command has to be executed each time machine is rebooted. To execute above command automatically we can create a tiny bash script and add it to startup items.
1. Create a new file somewhere ( My BSD habits puts files like this in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ but that’s just me ) and copy paste following into it.
#!/bin/bash syndaemon -i 2.5 -d
2. To add above script to startup items, go to System > Preferences > Startup Applicaitons > Add. In new pop-up box name it something meaningful and type in the path and command.. After that click “Add”.
There you go, done like dinner 
Enjoy not having the hell of your cursor selecting 2 paragraphs of text and typing over it before you know what’s going on!
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