The Best Javascript Libraries To Spice Up Your New Projects

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Sometimes we need some fresh ideas for our projects and the following list of JavaScript Libraries will help you get going. Hopefully one of these will help spice up that new project of yours. Uniform Build good looking forms with Uniform. Uniform makes it possible to style form elements. It really something that will spice…

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WordPress: How To Create Custom Permalinks To Use In Your Plugins The Easy Way

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Hi guys, in this tutorial I will be teaching you how you can create custom permalinks. We are going to write a simple plugin to demonstrate how to do this. The first thing to do is add to filters and one action for our functions that we will be creating. The only action we use…

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WordPress Stats: Create A Simple Stats Plugin For Your Site

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Have you wanted to just have a simple WordPress stats system for your website without having to go through all the hassles of creating a new site under Google analytics.  Well I have a simple solution for you. It does not give you every detail of stats but it’s good enough to show you Total…

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The December 2011 Comment & Win winner is…

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Our monthly Comment & Win competition has its second winner YAY! I’m so happy that you guys are commentating and giving input on my articles. I just want to say thanks to Ed Burns for his valuable comments. I really hope to see more people taking part, who knows maybe I draw you as one…

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Custom Pagination for your WordPress themes

Custom Pagination

I was recently busy building a new wordpress theme and I decided that I would like to get a better way of showing pagination on my theme pages. Usually you get the normal wordpress pagination with the next and previous links at top and/or the bottom of you blogging page which really is awful in…

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Add And Remove WordPress User Profile Fields And Display Them Within Your Theme

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I recently had to remove and add fields to the user profile of  WordPress for one of my clients. The instructions were simple and I had to remove quite a bit of fields which they specified and also had to add a way for the users to upload an image. So today I will show…

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WordPress 3.3 (sonny) Comes with the WP Editor API the power of TINYMCE

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WordPress 3.3 named sonny has been release recently and with it comes the news of the new wp_editor api. This makes for a whole new playing field, the reason I’m saying this is that before there wasn’t really a way to add the tinymce editor in your plugins without including an external code. With this…

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For The Newbies: A simple PHP Contact Form Using Ajax To Send Email

I’ve decided that I will write something for the newbie’s to PHP and show you how to create a simple contact form using AJAX to send an email to your email address. I remember my first time starting out and learning PHP, damn was it hard to understand the first time. When you practice and…

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5 Free Easy Ways You Can Do UX Design Testing

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A few months ago I went on UX Design course. This course really opened my mind to the whole user experience testing thing. I never  thought that it was actually such complex yet fun thing to test user reactions to certain design elements on your web designs and actually learn something from it. All though…

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6 Dirty Reasons Why You Suck At WordPress Theme Development

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I’ve worked on many WordPress designs that someone else has build which I had to optimize to get a site loading faster. When I started looking at the WordPress template code I could see these guys did not know what they were doing. I was in shock, how could you let someone build a WordPress…

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