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WordPress 3.3 Hits the Streets

December 12, 2011 · 0 comments

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The latest version of the WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt, is now available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard. WordPress has had over 65 million downloads since version 3.0 was released, and in this third major iteration the WordPress team has added significant polish around the new user experience, navigation, uploading, and imports. Check out this short video that summarizes the new updates: [...]

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Gravity Forms – Premium WordPress Plugin

December 6, 2011 · 0 comments

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Whenever I’ve needed to add a form to a WordPress page, I’ve used either Contact Form 7 or the Secure Form Mailer plugin. I’ve found they both work well. I have had some problems in the past with Contact Form 7 not sending the notification after a form has been submitted. But overall they seem to work fine. Gravity Forms Just recently, I wanted to update a contact form on one of my sites, and [...]

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Add Tabbed Browsing to Mac Finder using TotalFinder

November 6, 2011 · 0 comments

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I discovered this app for the Mac by accident and wanted to share this quick post about it. If you’re a Mac user and aren’t making use of TotalFinder, then I’d say you’re missing out on an incredibly useful program. TotalFinder enhances the native Mac Finder by adding numerous additional features. Here’s a list of the current feature: Tabbed Browsing – Add tabs to the Finder window. Dual Mode – Display two Finder windows side-by-side [...]

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My Story About Migrating from Windows to Mac

September 13, 2011 · 6 comments

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I have been thinking about moving from Windows to Mac for about a year now, and I’ve finally done it. I wanted to share my experience and some things I’ve learned during the process. My First Computer First, a little background to set the stage. I have been using Windows for over 20 years, probably since the release of Windows 3.0. If we went back even further, my first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 when [...]

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Use TimThumb to Add Thumbnail Images Using the First Image in the Post

August 6, 2011 · 6 comments

in Thesis, Web Design

I have been a fan of the TimThumb script for some time now. It can be used as an alternative to using WordPress Featured Images to display and automatically resize images. Recently there has been quite a lot of activity in TimThumbville. A security vulnerability was discovered which allowed third parties to upload and execute PHP code in the TimThumb cache directory. Following the news of the vulnerability, the current TimThumb developer, Ben Gillbanks has [...]

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Show One Sidebar on Certain Pages in Thesis

July 23, 2011

in Sidebar, Thesis, Thesis User's Guide

Sometimes you might want to show a single sidebar on certain pages in your Thesis theme if you’re running a 3-column layout. That means you basically have 2 sidebars sitewide, but maybe you just want to show one on a particular page. This tutorial from the Thesis User’s Guide will allow you to do just that. There are four basic steps to making this happen: Remove the original sidebars from the home page Restore sidebar [...]

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Resize Images in WordPress Automatically to Any Size You Want

July 21, 2011 · 1 comment

in Web Design, WordPress

Here’s a little known feature built into WordPress that many people may not be aware of. When you’re using the image uploader to upload pictures to your blog posts, you’ll notice that the image is automatically resized into three different sizes: Thumbnail, Medium and Large. But what if the “Large” size is too wide to fit perfectly across the width of your content area? Set maximum width of uploaded images in WordPress Did you know [...]

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Making Sense of Google Recipe View and Microformats

July 7, 2011 · 2 comments

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I’ve had a number of my food blog clients ask me about the Google’s “Recipe View” in the search results. Google is indexing recipes from food blogs that comply with certain formatting rules and then serving up the results under a section called “Recipes.” In order to have your recipe show up in these search results, the recipe must be formatted in a very specific way and each part of the recipe needs to get [...]

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WordPress 3.2 requires MySQL 5.0 or higher Upgrade Error

July 5, 2011 · 2 comments

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WordPress 3.2 was just released and if you experienced a problem with upgrading it was most likely caused by the fact that your host is running an outdated version of MySQL. WordPress 3.2 requires that your web server be running not only PHP 5.2.4 or higher, but also MySQL 5.0 or higher. There’s a good chance that your web host has already upgraded to the latest MySQL version, but I experienced an issue with Media [...]

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Center Navigation Horizontally in Thesis

July 3, 2011 · 3 comments

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Centering your navigation horizontally across your site isn’t as easy as it sounds. There are a number of solutions I’ve come across to achieve this and most of them do the trick. I wanted to share one solution for centering a navigation horizontally that I have found works well and requires the least amount of css code. How to Center your Navigation Horizontally The method I’m using come from this blog and you can read [...]

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