Whenever I’ve needed to add a form to a WordPress page, I’ve used either Contact Form 7 or the Secure Form Mailer plugin. I’ve found they both work well. I have had some problems in the past with Contact Form 7 not sending the notification after a form has been submitted. But overall they seem to work fine. Gravity Forms Just recently, I wanted to update a contact form on one of my sites, and [...]
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I discovered this app for the Mac by accident and wanted to share this quick post about it. If you’re a Mac user and aren’t making use of TotalFinder, then I’d say you’re missing out on an incredibly useful program. TotalFinder enhances the native Mac Finder by adding numerous additional features. Here’s a list of the current feature: Tabbed Browsing – Add tabs to the Finder window. Dual Mode – Display two Finder windows side-by-side [...]
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I have been thinking about moving from Windows to Mac for about a year now, and I’ve finally done it. I wanted to share my experience and some things I’ve learned during the process. My First Computer First, a little background to set the stage. I have been using Windows for over 20 years, probably since the release of Windows 3.0. If we went back even further, my first computer was a Sinclair ZX81 when [...]
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I have been a fan of the TimThumb script for some time now. It can be used as an alternative to using WordPress Featured Images to display and automatically resize images. Recently there has been quite a lot of activity in TimThumbville. A security vulnerability was discovered which allowed third parties to upload and execute PHP code in the TimThumb cache directory. Following the news of the vulnerability, the current TimThumb developer, Ben Gillbanks has [...]
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Sometimes you might want to show a single sidebar on certain pages in your Thesis theme if you’re running a 3-column layout. That means you basically have 2 sidebars sitewide, but maybe you just want to show one on a particular page. This tutorial from the Thesis User’s Guide will allow you to do just that. There are four basic steps to making this happen: Remove the original sidebars from the home page Restore sidebar [...]
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Here’s a little known feature built into WordPress that many people may not be aware of. When you’re using the image uploader to upload pictures to your blog posts, you’ll notice that the image is automatically resized into three different sizes: Thumbnail, Medium and Large. But what if the “Large” size is too wide to fit perfectly across the width of your content area? Set maximum width of uploaded images in WordPress Did you know [...]
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I’ve had a number of my food blog clients ask me about the Google’s “Recipe View” in the search results. Google is indexing recipes from food blogs that comply with certain formatting rules and then serving up the results under a section called “Recipes.” In order to have your recipe show up in these search results, the recipe must be formatted in a very specific way and each part of the recipe needs to get [...]
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WordPress 3.2 was just released and if you experienced a problem with upgrading it was most likely caused by the fact that your host is running an outdated version of MySQL. WordPress 3.2 requires that your web server be running not only PHP 5.2.4 or higher, but also MySQL 5.0 or higher. There’s a good chance that your web host has already upgraded to the latest MySQL version, but I experienced an issue with Media [...]
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Centering your navigation horizontally across your site isn’t as easy as it sounds. There are a number of solutions I’ve come across to achieve this and most of them do the trick. I wanted to share one solution for centering a navigation horizontally that I have found works well and requires the least amount of css code. How to Center your Navigation Horizontally The method I’m using come from this blog and you can read [...]
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A minor update to Thesis was released to fix a small display bug on the edit category page of the WordPress admin interface. The release also makes a performance improvement with respect to caching stylesheets. You can get all the juicy details here. Log into your DIYthemes account and download the new version. You can also read about installing Thesis for the first time, or upgrading to the latest version of Thesis.
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Tabbed Widget Tutorial For Thesis WordPress Theme Using Chris Coyier’s Organic Tabs 125
How to Install Thesis For The First Time 49
How to Show Related Posts With Thumbnails Without a Plugin in Thesis 48
Thesis 1.8 Adds Header Image Uploader 35
Add a Full Screen Background Image in Thesis 34
How To Show Posts From a Specific Category On a Thesis Theme Page 27
How To Use WordPress 2.9′s Post Thumbnail Feature (Featured Image) In Your Thesis Theme 26
How to Use Custom Fields in Your Thesis Theme 25
Add a Custom Class to Each Item in the WordPress Menu 24
Add a Fancy jQuery Drop Down Menu in Thesis using Superfish 24
Thesis-Blogs Is Now on Twitter 0Posted on: Jan 01, 2012
Remove Explore Section From Google Reader and Other Cool Tweaks 0Posted on: Jan 01, 2012
WordPress 3.3 Hits the Streets 0Posted on: Dec 12, 2011
Gravity Forms – Premium WordPress Plugin 0Posted on: Dec 06, 2011
Add Tabbed Browsing to Mac Finder using TotalFinder 0Posted on: Nov 06, 2011
My Story About Migrating from Windows to Mac 5Posted on: Sep 13, 2011
Use TimThumb to Add Thumbnail Images Using the First Image in the Post 6Posted on: Aug 06, 2011
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