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Strip images and other HTML tags from a WordPress post

November 13, 2011

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Here’s a really quick snippet for when you’re building a custom post loop in WordPress. It’s really easy to remove the images or any other nasty html that could mess up the theme that you’ve spent hours designing, just put the tags in the functions that you’d like to keep and hey presto you’ve got [...]

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WordPress mail() On A Windows Server

September 1, 2011

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Web design and Development is anything but not exciting, every day is a school day it would seem. Today i discovered that PHP’s mail functionality and in turn the lovely plugin Contact Form 7 don’t work as expected (read: not at all) on a windows server and need a bit of tweaking of the SMTP [...]

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Prevent WordPress Editors From Changing Themes

August 31, 2011

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Wonderful little code snippet that prevents the editing of your wordpress theme by administrators. This stops them uploding themes, editing the existing code of your custom theme and also prevents them from adding, removing or editing plugins which is really very useful. just add these 2 lines of code into your wp-config.php file and upload [...]

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CSS3 PIE Life Saving .htaccess Snippet

August 25, 2011

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I like to use CSS3 Pie…. It gives my designs nice rounded corners for my boxes and gives me a lovely little shadow on my text. Unfortunately those nice people at Microsoft deemed these features unessential. I recently ported a site onto a different companies hosting which for some reason didn’t implement my CCS3 Pie [...]

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Super Simple Jquery Dropdown Menu For WordPress 3

August 18, 2011

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WordPress 3 has a native menu functionality that is really cool and allows WordPress site administrators to easily add and edit menus on their sites. Here’s a really simple way to get a smooth dropdown menu for those indented menu items in your custom menu. View The Demo (view the source of this page to [...]

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Find And Replace A String In MySQL

August 15, 2011

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I’m finding this little snippet of code extremely useful at the minute. A simple way to change a string in a MySQL database. UPDATE table SET field = REPLACE(field,'oldString','newString'); I’ve been using this a lot lately when migrating WordPress installations from host to host and i have to change the url from say http://mydomain.com to [...]

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Gzip And Set Expiry Dates Of Files With .htaccess

August 15, 2011

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We’ve been using one and one as our web host for a good few years now, we’ve got a couple of older servers which run and host quite a few older sites that were created using PHP 5. You might know that the latest versions of WordPress require at least PHP 5 to be running [...]

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Order Custom Fields Correctly in WordPress

August 11, 2011

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This might be reinventing the wheel but i could not get my custom fields to output in the correct order in WordPress. Custom fields are really powerful and can be used for a tonne of different things in my case I was using it to store product values for an online shop which integrated into [...]

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Integrating Googles Unofficial Weather API

June 16, 2011

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Google offer a whole range of API’s for web developers, Google Maps and Google Checkout being just 2 popular options which are well supported and widely implemented. I am currently redeveloping Farmores Hotel and bed and breakfast site Places2stay. the site itself works as an affiliate portal site for Late Rooms, basically, users can search [...]

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Mobile WordPress Sites : How to get Category Name

May 9, 2011

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A while ago I built a football podcasting site for a client using WordPress. If you’ve ever used it or developed with it then you’ll know how powerful and fun to use WordPress can be. We needed to have a mobile version of the site so fans could listen to the podcasts on their phones [...]

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