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Both the www and non-www versions look exactly the same to me. They both have the same meta tags and an empty title tag. To get rid of the duplicate content problem you have to redirect one to the other; the best way to do so is detailed here.

bah…

For copy/paste purposes replacing all that ad code with:

<div style="text-align: center;">
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-2542975605347305";
/* 728x90, under banner 8/4/11 */
google_ad_slot = "4287651566";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</div>

will center it.

The css (.adsense { text-align: center; }) should be added to the bottom of your “style.css” file in your theme. You could also add:

<style type="text/css">
    .adsense { text-align: center; }
</style>

right before the </head> tag in your theme’s “header.php” file.

Or, if you don’t want to mess with any other files, use:

<div style="text-align: center;">...your google ad code...</div>

The center tag is deprecated and really shouldn’t be used anymore.

margin-left will work as long as it’s set to exactly half the remaining space (which in this case would be 116px) while text-align: center, since the div will automatically fill the entire width, will work regardless.

In other words, surround your google ad code in a div with an id or class:

<div id="adsenseAd">...code...</div>
or
<div class="adsenseAd">...code...</div>

then use the id/class to center it using css:

If you use an id:
#adsenseAd { text-align: center; }
or if you use a class:
.adsenseAd { text-align: center; }

You can also use margin-left instead:

If you use an id:
#adsenseAd { margin-left: 116px; }
or if you use a class:
.adsenseAd { margin-left: 116px; }

but you will have to change that value if you ever change the overall width of your site/header/adsense ad.

As long as that user is set as the network admin the username doesn’t matter.

Assuming you did everything needed, in the top right, click on “howdy, [user name]”. A link to the network admin area should be in the menu that pops up.

That’s WordPress’s normal rules to enable pretty permalinks.

Before, but only to keep it separated from the WordPress rules. (It technically shouldn’t matter)

Bah…

The forum made one of those examples a link, but I think you get the idea.

Yup, that should do it. It has apache redirect all browsers from https://www.anything.whatever to anything.whatever.

The author of that article (and I) both suggest putting that at the beginning of your .htaccess file.

Will this link do the trick?

The easiest way would probably be to wrap your ad code in a div:

<div id="googleAd">...google ad code...</div>

then add:

#googleAd { text-align: center; }

to the bottom of your theme’s style sheet (style.css).

When you’re editing a post, you can change the post’s status from “published” to “draft” (in the “Publish” box usually at the top right). When you want to publish the post (have it show your site) switch it back from “draft” to “published”.

WordPress uses Gravatars by default. Just set up a Gravatar for the same email address you used in your account(s).

If you want to use local images for avatars a plugin (like this one) would do the trick.

Going by the function reference for get_the_category() something like:

$category = get_the_category();
$parent_cat = $category->category_parent;

might work.