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WordPress tip: Create a PDF viewer shortcode

March 1, 2010

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If you’re using PDF files on your WordPress blog, it could be very cool to give your users the chance to open them using Google Docs. The following recipe will show you how you can do that. via WordPress tip: Create a PDF viewer shortcode.

Wordpress and jQuery: Troubleshooting, Implementing Sidebar Tabs and More

February 20, 2010

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Wordpress and jQuery can work effectively if implemented correctly. It can enhance your blogs functionality and usability. In this post we will look at some wordpress-jQuery troubleshooting tips, techniques and also how to add tabs to your sidebar. via Wordpress and jQuery: Troubleshooting, Implementing Sidebar Tabs and More.

How to Build a Custom Wordpress Theme from Scratch

February 18, 2010

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If you’re confident with your CSS and HTML, it’s not hard at all to step up to the challenge of building a custom Wordpress theme. This overview shows the process of how my latest custom Wordpress theme was built from design concept through to completed theme. See how the static design is split up into [...]

How to Create a Wordpress Options Panel | Nettuts+

February 16, 2010

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Today, we’ll go through the entire process of creating an admin options panel for a WordPress theme. Then, we’ll take things a step further, as we implement jQuery to improve some of the functionality. via How to Create a Wordpress Options Panel | Nettuts+.

How to Build a Custom Wordpress Theme from Scratch

February 16, 2010

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If you’re confident with your CSS and HTML, it’s not hard at all to step up to the challenge of building a custom Wordpress theme. This overview shows the process of how my latest custom Wordpress theme was built from design concept through to completed theme. See how the static design is split up into [...]

Speeding Up WordPress With If Statements | WPShout.com

February 16, 2010

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Speeding up WordPress has just got easier; using PHP’s if statements you can only load the stuff you need. When building ShiftNews, one thing we were always vary wary of was the effect on load time stuff would have. That meant sprites, not making too many database calls, that kind of thing. And then Alex C [...]

6 Tutorials To Help Your Create Your Own Wordpress Plugin – WebM.ag | Web Design Magazine

February 16, 2010

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One of the beautiful things about Wordpress is the high level of flexibility and input you as a designer can have, you can theme it yourself, hack it up and even create your own plugins. Today we are covering a few tutorials which will help you create your first Wordpress plugin. As you may know the [...]

Display Post Thumbnail Also In Edit Post and Page Overview – ‘fbAddThumbValue’, ‘fbAddThumbColumn’, ‘Thumbnail’;, fbAddThumbValue$columnname, ‘None’;, fbAddThumbColumn$cols – WP Engineer

February 16, 2010

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WordPress version 2.9 introduced the function of Post Thumbnail. We wrote about this feature in this post and here and also in many other blogs. I find it an advantage, if the overview of articles and pages also provides the associated thumbnail. Therefore, I would like to introduce a small code snippet that makes just [...]

Setting Up Wordpress for SEO | Graphic and Web Design Blog -Resources And Tutorials

February 16, 2010

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WordPress out of the box comes SEO friendly, however there are many tweaks you can make to further optimize it for search engines. We recently covered 10 important tips to optimize wordpress for search engines, however this post will go more in-depth and offering further optimization tips.Here are a number of advanced [...]

How to Widgetize Your WordPress Theme in 2 Steps | Digging into WordPress

February 12, 2010

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Working on a new theme for the next Digging into WordPress book update, I found myself really getting into the whole “widgetizing” thing. Widgets enable non-technical users to customize your theme according to their specific layout needs, and with so many different widgets available, the possibilities are endless. You may have thought about widgets as [...]