
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!
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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).
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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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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Link: Mail Scripts
If you use Mail, you cannot be without this!
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