Sep
09
2010
Adding a Tweet Button to WordPress
After I completed the redesign for bavotasan.com, I was looking for some social media links to add to the bottom of my single post pages. The main two buttons...
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Sep
03
2010
Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 5
So far I have gone over a lot of the basic requirements for putting together a WordPress theme. Some stuff is pretty simple and other stuff might take a...
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Sep
02
2010
Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 4
When you develop a theme for WordPress, you should consider giving your users a few customizable options so they can easily modify certain elements to their liking. Simple and...
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Sep
01
2010
Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 3
If you’ve already gone through the first two parts of this series, you are well on your way to putting together a WordPress theme. It might seem a little...
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Aug
31
2010
Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 2
In my last post, I tried to point you to the most important pages in the WordPress codex to get you moving in the right direction with developing your...
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Aug
30
2010
Developing Themes for WordPress: Part 1
Over the weekend, I gave a presentation on developing WordPress themes for fun and profit. It went really well and I thought it would be a good idea to...
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Aug
25
2010
Optimization Tips to Speed Up Your Site
Ever since Google announced that a site’s speed would be a major factor in its ranking, I have really been paying attention to how my site performs. I guess...
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Aug
20
2010
Create bit.ly Short URLs for your Posts in WordPress
I have been working with the http://bit.ly API and decided to change the short URLs on my site to include the short URLs provided by http://bit.ly. The API is...
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Aug
17
2010
Optimizing your MySQL Database
I run my Web sites on a dedicated virtual server and every once in a while, I need to go in and optimize things to make sure everything runs...
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Aug
10
2010
How to Draw a Smiley Face with CSS3
I was messing around with CSS3 gradients, rounded corners and shadows, and I thought to myself, “I wonder if I can draw something that actually looks like something?” Lo...
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