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If you are the author, tweaker, or users of a Wordpress Theme or Wordpress Plugins, I highly recommend the following:

1. Download Internet Explorer 7 and put your Wordpress Themes through their paces.
2. View all the different page views from the front page, single post view, and search, category, and archive views. Make sure all the parts and pieces fit together and stay where they are supposed to stay.
3. Validate your Wordpress Theme. Things can get messed up along the way, so test now to make sure it is in full working order before IE7 hits.
4. Test your feeds to make sure they are working, including for your entire blog, blog comments, category feeds, and any custom feeds you may have. IE7 will automatically detect RSS feeds and ask users to subscribe, and will even offer frequent updates and alerts for feeds.
5. Using Ajax in Wordpress Themes or Wordpress Plugins? According to the IE Blog, a specific order to the request changes needs to be set. Contact authors of Ajax Plugins if you’re not sure to make sure their Wordpress Plugins are compliant with IE7.
6. Check the Information Index for Internet Explorer7 to make sure your Wordpress Theme or Wordpress Plugins will work within IE7.

If your Wordpress Theme or Plugins does pass the IE7 tests, make sure you label it accordingly.

While you are at it, why not check your Wordpress Theme design and code in some other updated browsers. Or take this opportunity to update your Wordpress Theme or Wordpress Plugins with all the user’s fixes and suggestions so you get publicize it as “new and improved” and “works with IE7?.

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