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Fixing the Read More Tag Problem in WordPress Static Pages

Read More Tag

WordPress has two ways of showing excerpts in a blog. One is by using the_excerpt() tag in your themes, and the other method is by using the more tag. The more tag allows you to specify where the cut off point is in a post… Read More »

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Jul 29, 2011
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How to Restrict Uploads to Specified File Types Only in WordPress

Restrict Uploads

Few days ago while working on a client’s site, we were asked to code a function that restrict uploads to specified file types only (jpg, gif, png). After looking around the repository and finding nothing that can do this, we decided to create a plugin… Read More »

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Jul 27, 2011
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No Self Ping – Keeps WordPress from Sending Pings to Your Own Site

No Self Pings

Everybody knows that internal linking is good for SEO. It is also good for user experience because it helps the user relate to what is being talked about in a specific article. Ever since WordPress 3.1 introduced internal linking, like many others we have found… Read More »

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Jul 19, 2011
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How to Display Google+ Profile Widget in WordPress

Google Cards

Google+ has been a popular subject for the past few weeks. This new social network is growing very fast. Popular tech celebrities already boasts thousands of followers (in circles). If you are one of the avid fans of Google+ and want to get your profile… Read More »

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Jul 18, 2011
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How to Show Post Updates/Revisions to your readers in WordPress

Last Update

Recently one of our readers asked via twitter, how to show their post updates/revisions publicly to their blog readers. We shared an article before which showed how to display the last updated date of your posts, but it didn’t show what was changed. In this… Read More »

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Jul 13, 2011
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WordPress 3.2.1 – JSON, the admin, a little bit tidier

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A little over a week ago, WordPress 3.2 was released. In that release, there were some server incompatibility issues with JSON. This is the main reason why this maintenance release came so fast in which the core team has addressed the JSON issue, and made… Read More »

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Jul 13, 2011
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Native Dashboard – WordPress Dashboard in Multiple Languages

Native Dashboard

Recently one of our users asked us for an easy way of installing WordPress in their native language. There is a manual way that requires you to make edits to your wp-config.php file which may not be the most ideal solution for beginners. That is… Read More »

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Jul 12, 2011
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Get Twitter Followers in Exchange of Downloadable Files in WordPress

Tweet and Get it

Have you seen a site where you are asked to join an email list in order to access their free e-book or another product. Well, that is getting old very fast. More and more people subscribe and unsubscribe right after the download because they want… Read More »

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Jul 7, 2011
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WordPress 3.2 Gershwin – Features, Screenshots, and Live Demo

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On July 4th, the independence day of United States of America, Matt Mullenweg announced the release of the most anticipated WordPress 3.2 which was named after George Gershwin. You all should have already upgraded by now, but for those of you who were enjoying the… Read More »

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Jul 5, 2011
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