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Tutoriels, liens et autres informations à venir. Tutorials, links and other helpful stuff.
In the search for a jQuery “slider” (made popular by the nice one at http://panic.com) for a client’s WordPress installation, I decided to give EasySlider a try. After QUITE a bit of tinkering I was able to integrate it into the site and there were moments I thought the plugin ought to be entitled NotSoEasySlider, which is a greater reflection on how WordPress made it a bit complicated than on the great work by the author, Alen Grakalic!
I spent nearly 2 solid days trying to figure out why the latest posts on one of my clients’ sites were not showing up in the “popup preview” provided by email marketing site MailChimp. I love http://MailChimp.com, but this had me stumped and my eyes were beginning to cross. I had already spent countless hours learning how to create a custom RSS feed, template and query in Wordpress (future, much bigger article).
This article will show you how to create custom category templates that are automatically used when specific categories are selected from the site menu, via a conditional statement in the category.php file. While it is possible to have categories default to using a custom template named with the category number (i.e. category-12.php), this is a [...]
In my search for a way to : a) easily generate a list of a large number of PDF documents in a folder on the server; b) automatically show links to each document for easy download, and of course c) display this within a Wordpress Page or Post (whew!), I discovered the WP Include File [...]
I’ve been looking high and low, for a client, to find some way to easily upload and link to PDF documents. I came across the Apture plugin for Wordpress, which interfaces with the Apture website (http://apture.com) and lets you pick from uploaded documents of all types (multi-media, pdf, xls, pp, etc.). Click on the sample [...]
I’m into my second year of using open source survey software Lime Survey to manage voting for one of my client projects. If you don’t know about it, stop by http://limesurvey.org and check it out. In addition to a downloadable, self-installed version for your server, they have begun to offer a hosted version and will [...]
Link: Easily Show The Contents of Password Fields » Raymond.CC Blog
Turns out that there’s a way to do it. No software required, the result is immediate and it is shockingly easy to reveal the hidden password.
Link: What is reCAPTCHA?
Digitizing Books One Word at a TimeA CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You’ve probably seen them — colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from “bots,” or [...]
Link: Online Office, Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation, CRM and more
Unbelievable. I visited this site when it was just starting up and recently came back via a link to Zoho Creator. Unf_ _ _ _ing believable is more like it! Create database apps on the fly without being a programmer. Gorgeous interface, incredibly good instructions, beautiful [...]
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