Inspired by my friend Alex Boroda, I’m starting a new category of entries called “What I Learned Today.”  Let’s see how long I keep it up.

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In Firefox, my visited links weren’t changing to match my CSS. They looked fine in IE. Now I know from (a very frustrating) past experience that order is very important in your stylesheet. Your link styles should be listed in the order a:link, a:visited, a:hover, a:active. I created a mnemonic device to help me: Las Vegas Hawaii. Wedding in Las Vegas, honeymoon in Hawaii.

So anyway, I knew this wasn’t the issue because it’s something I’ve since been very conscious about. So what else could it be, and why the heck was it working in IE and not Firefox? In trying to find the answer, I went to other sites that had working visited links in IE and looked at them in Firefox. They didn’t work in Firefox either! What this meant is that it wasn’t my stylesheet—it was my browser! Yay!

I looked at my browser settings and still didn’t see anything that would prevent my style from working. I had the “Allow pages to choose their own fonts…” option checked, so now what? After some more searching on Google, I found the culprit.

My visited links weren’t working in Firefox because my browser was set to save 0 days worth of browsing history. What this means is that Firefox didn’t make a list of the links I’ve clicked, of the pages I’ve visited. So of course, it didn’t turn my regular links to visited links because to Firefox there are no visited links. Duh!

I changed my settings to 1 day, went back to my page, started clicking links again and—Voila!—it was right as rain.

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The WP Email Notification Plugin does not work with Wordpress 2.3 or above it seems. I’m currently running Wordpress 2.6.3. Subscribe2 is a good replacement.

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When desiring to do a blog entry called “What I Learned Today,” it is best to make a list as you go along instead of trying to remember it all at the end of the day.