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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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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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How to Create Custom Write Panels in WordPress with More Fields Plugin

Custom Fields in WordPress

It seems that every day WordPress theme’s are getting more advanced and robust. This is a good thing for the existing developers that know what they are doing in terms of coding, but it puts a lot of new designers and developers in a very… Read More »

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Jun 30, 2011
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How to do Live Blogging in WordPress

Live Blog in WordPress

Live blogging is rolling textual coverage of ongoing events within a single blog post or channel, very similar to live television or radio. Live blogging is being adapted by a lot of smaller and larger news oriented sites to broadcast live updates from technology conferences,… Read More »

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Jun 28, 2011
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How to Add Multiple Galleries in WordPress Posts and Pages

Multiple Galleries in WordPress

WordPress comes with a built-in gallery feature for posts and pages. We wrote an article on how to add a gallery in WordPress with a lightbox effect. But there were two issues that were raised from that article. One was that the gallery shortcode pulls… Read More »

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Jun 27, 2011
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