With Wordpress, I wanted to display a list of the latest 5 posts from the category in which the displaying post is located. I needed to do this outside the loop because I wanted to list the posts in the sidebar. For the life of me couldn’t find anywhere on the net how to do [...]

It is not always best to have all of your pages indexed and cached by the search engines. Also not all links should be followed, therefore some editing of your wordpress header might be in order. Here is what I sometimes do.
Place the following in your wordpress themes header.php file, if the page is a [...]

Within the Theme Editor, select Stylesheet from the theme files listed vertically to the right. The Style.css file should now be presented in the editor window and is ready for editing.
From the editor window, find the following code:

I had some problems embedding Youtube and Google Video to this site, but eventually worked out a simple solution for both. Paste the following into your editor (ensuring the rich editor is turned off, or alternative temporarily disable javascript if you are using Firefox with the ‘NoScript’ extension)
<embed style=”width: 212px; height: 257px;” id=”VideoPlayback” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” xsrc=”web-address-of-the-video-you-want-to-view” [...]