I must admit I love the Easter Bunny, and how he gets around with all those chocolate eggs still mystifies me to this very day. I’m sure DHL are in on it somehow… Anyway, to celebrate my chocolate-filled expanding waistline at this time of year, until the end of April 2011 (or at the very …
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Note: This method no longer works as intended due to changes in WordPress and Google maps. However, if you paste the iframe information from the Google maps page, WordPress automatically converts the frame to its own shortcode for you. At least, it’s supposed to work that way. Adding Google maps to your WordPress installation isn’t …
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Since re-launching my website a few hours ago, I’ve already received comment about the quotes that frequent the header area of the site. While some are my own work, much credit has to go to designwashere for their design related ones. I’ve listed more below for your amusement. Enjoy! My rates are as follows: £50 …
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Okay I’ll admit it, I’m my own worst enemy when it comes to building websites. I’m acutely aware that I am far too picky and quite often it’s up to the client to tell me when enough is enough. “Hey, the first design you sent me would have sufficed”, seems to be a common theme, …
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Before building a site there are many things that you need to take in mind. For example, how are you going to design your site, what is it going to cost you, how long will it take you to build, etc. All of these things mentioned a both are important aspects to consider when designing …
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This handy function will search and replace all instances of a search term in every file with the PHP extension, across all directories and subdirectories. Upload the file to your root directory and run it. function callbackDir($dir){ $searchString = “searchforthis”; $newValue = “replacewiththis”; // directory, and file type $path = “$dir/*.php”; $searchString = “#”.$searchString.”#”; $globarray …
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Unfortunately, the default Recent Comments widget also includes trackbacks and pingbacks and the sight ain’t so lovely thus I had to add this hack to weed out the trackbacks and pingbacks. Open your theme’s functions.php file and add the following code if ( !$comments = wp_cache_get( ‘recent_comments’, ‘widget’ ) ) { $comments = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT …
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Recovering from a WordPress Spam Injection attack is not fun, but you can regain your Google Search Results after being hacked by a spam injection attack. The best policy with Google is to be specific in your explanations. You will need to make sure that you have removed all bad files from your server and …
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1. Open your index.php and find <?php get_footer(); ?> 2. Place a HTML comment that you can easily recognize, before and after Something like: <!– footer content starts Here –> <?php get_footer(); ?> <!– footer content ends Here –></blockquote> <!– footer content starts Here –> <!– footer content ends Here –> 3. Visit your blog 4. …
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Creating breadcrumbs in WordPress themes can be a pain. With that in mind, this handy function should be exactly what you need. function waz_breadcrumbs() { $delimiter = ‘»’; $name = ‘Home’; //text for the ‘Home’ link $currentBefore = ‘<span>’; $currentAfter = ‘</span>’; if ( !is_home() && !is_front_page() || is_paged() ) { <a href=”http://www.php.net/echo”>echo</a> ‘<div id=”crumbs”>’; …
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