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How to Send Email in WordPress using the Gmail SMTP Server

WP Mail

Recently we had an issue with one of our clients’ Gravity Form on their website. The data wasn’t being passed on to their Google Apps account email because WordPress doesn’t use SMTP mail like Google. Rather, the wp_mail() function makes use of the standard PHP… Read More »

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Sep 14, 2011
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StudioPress Marketplace – Pure Genesis Goodness

StudioPress

Although StudioPress already offers 41 turnkey designs for Genesis, that number is going to skyrocket with the advent of StudioPress Marketplace, the perfect place to buy officially approved Genesis themes from third party developers. For those of you that don’t already use the Genesis framework,… Read More »

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Sep 14, 2011
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How to Create a Grid Display of Post Thumbnails in WordPress Themes

Grid Loop Display

When creating WordPress site designs, have you ever had the urge to create a grid display of posts? The grid layout works great for media centric sites such as our WordPress gallery or another showcase type site. Theme frameworks like Genesis already has a pre-built… Read More »

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Sep 13, 2011
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How to Create Additional Image Sizes in WordPress

Additional Image Sizes

Last month there was a huge vulnerability spotted in a famous image resizing script known as TimThumb. Since then the community has collaborated and fixed the issues. While TimThumb is a viable option, we believe that WordPress theme developers should focus on using the core… Read More »

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Sep 12, 2011
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Grido – Very neat Responsive Tumblr-Like WordPress Theme

Grido Theme

Today we were notified by our friends over at Themify about this new theme they have released. Grido is a responsive theme that fully supports WordPress Post formats making it yet another Microblogging theme for WordPress. Grido theme comes with 9 gradient backgrounds for each… Read More »

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Sep 8, 2011
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How to Duplicate Theme Files from WordPress Admin Panel

Theme File Duplicator

Have you ever worked on a client’s site who is not willing to give you FTP? The hardest part about that is you cannot create new template files, nor you can duplicate an existing template file. In this article, we will share with you a… Read More »

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Sep 8, 2011
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How to Easily Access Your Draft Posts from the WordPress Admin Bar

Drafts Dropdown in WordPress

Most of us bloggers don’t write our posts in one sitting. Usually we have several drafts laying around which we work on gradually. But wouldn’t you like to get quicker access to your draft posts and pages? Normally you have to click on Edit /… Read More »

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Sep 7, 2011
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How to Use Shortcodes in your WordPress Sidebar Widgets

WP Shortcodes

We showed you how to add a shortcode in WordPress, then we also showed you how you can use shortcodes in your WordPress Themes. In this article, we will show you how to use shortcodes in your WordPress sidebar. First thing you need to do… Read More »

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Sep 2, 2011
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