one of the requests on: wpdocsteam.wordpress.com was to write a Simple How To for Functions.php i have a draft: http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Hearvox/The_Functions_File i think the next step is inform this list, so please take a look and edit and consider for Codex. thanks, bg -- <http://HearingVoices.com/> ~radio active transmissions~