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Should your home page be a single flash animation?
What potential customers will see if they have an adblocker installed
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WordPress.com or self-hosted wordpress
Looking to set up a website using WordPress, one of the world most popular content management systems? Assess your skills (ftp, html, css, php) and what you are prepared to do yourself, and how good...
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Trackback Spam Notifications
It is always the ‘old’ stuff that gets you. I thought I had done such a great job tightening up things and then seemed to get hit with some repetitive trackback spam notifications. Since the...
View ArticleWordPress plugins to avoid
http://www.exploit-db.com lists vulnerabilities found in various wordpress plugins.
View ArticleComparison of Event Calendar Plug-ins
A quick look in no particular order (except mine first of course) . Yes I am checking out the competition – I love developing, but need to get some return on it. Hence some research on what others...
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Wp foreign characters, Php, Creating Tables
Question mark graffiti by bilal-kamoon I knocked myself around trying to figure out why my plugin was not coping with ‘foreign’, multi byte, Greek, Japanese, Chinese characters. Those damn questions...
View ArticleRegistrations temporarily suspended
Registrations temporarily suspended due to spam registrations (again, and again…..) If you are a free users, please use the wordpress forums. Paid users who have not yet registered, please use contact...
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Force new windows on external links?
Don’t force your users to open new windows…. even on external links. There are many reasons why it is a bad idea and not many reasons to do it. There are maybe a few special cases where it is ok –...
View ArticleCall current_user_can after init()
Running buddypress? Are you getting a debug notice like this: The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init() and you cannot figure out where it is coming from ? Most likely one of...
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Debugging a possible clash between plugins and/or a theme
The purpose of this post is to explain the step by step process that is sometimes required to isolate a possible clash between plugins and/or the theme. I find myself having to explain this a few...
View ArticleChanges for the plugins
The plugins are moving amr-events plugin registration is now at icalevents.com amr-user-templates plugin registration is soon at wpusersplugin.com read more
View ArticleAsus touchpad scrolling, dropdowns break after windows10?
A very sincere thank you to http://ivanrf.com/en/asus-smart-gesture-and-windows-10/. Windows10 went smoothly – even the old Microsoft Money (australian version) still works (including Dan’s quotes...
View ArticleInitial content for a new page or post – wordpress pleasant surprise
How to create a link to the add new page or post with default starting content
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A simple little plugin
I’m kinda astounded at how popular the amr-shortcode-any-widget plugin is. The concept and execution is so fairly simple – clever perhaps but simple. All it really does is use wp function to add a...
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How to give your plugin pluggable functions
The amazing pluggable machine – photo by lukasWP Pluggable functions are functions that can be overridden by others. The key is which is defined first. So to make one your plugin’s functions...
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Dead shortcodes and how to find them
Have you ever looked at your plugin list and wondered whether you actually using it anywhere? Or perhaps deactivated a plugin or swopped themes without realising that you now have a dead shortcode on...
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Multidimensional array sort with UTF8 collator locale special characters
The ‘correct’ alphabetical sorting is highly dependent on the locale. Some countries sort the special characters to the end and some not. A variety of so called solutions were found on the web, but...
View ArticleWhat does a website cost?
Handy article from Easy Digital Downloads on approaches and costs involved in setting up a website with external help. How much does it cost to set up a digital eCommerce site?
View ArticleOverwriting a themes pluggable function without a child theme, using a plugin
Summary At activation time, the theme is loaded before your plugin, but after that the plugin is loaded first, so bracket the function in your plugin in the same way that the theme function is...
View ArticleShowing updated date instead of published date
I wanted the post updated date to show instead of the published date. One can use a filter on the get_the_date and limit it to the archives and single posts etc. Not, great, tad misleading, but works...
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