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WordPress Quick Tip: Correctly Including jQuery

June 25, 2011 0 Comments

Like many others you probably aren't aware that WordPress includes jQuery as well as many other scripts that aren't turned on by default, you have to include them in your theme header file to utilize it. The right way to do this is pretty easy and I've seen many people just throw a link to the CDN hosted file in and call it good. This isn't the right way to do this and could cause problems along the way for plugins and other files.
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How To Code A WordPress Featured Slider

April 17, 2010 14 Comments

They're pretty much everywhere on just about every blog and website these days, the featured post slider. Not terribly hard to implement, but still confusing to some that do not know the WordPress API. In this tutorial I will show you how to code your own WordPress Featured Post Slider and integrate it into your WordPress theme.
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Creating Short Post Urls Within WordPress

November 27, 2009 0 Comments

With the popularity of Twitter, short urls are almost a necessity these days trying to maintain the limit of 140 characters. Using a short url as default in WordPress tends to hurt your search engine optimization and looks just so, well, "default". Here are a couple of ways you can easily and automatically create a short url for use in WordPress without a plug-in.
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10 Incredibly Useful WordPress Customizations

August 4, 2009 4 Comments

WordPress is the most versatile and popular blogging software on the internet today, but out of the box it doesn't always do what you would like it to. Fortunately, many hacks have been found to whip it into shape and get even more functionality out of it for your own personal use.
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Setting Up WordPress On Your PC Using XAMPP

July 13, 2009 2 Comments

Having a local environment to test out new WordPress plugins or to develop and test your own themes before using them on your site is very beneficial and easy to set up. This tutorial will walk you through the step by step install of Xampp and WordPress on your pc including enabling mod-rewrite and configuring permalinks.