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WordPress App Store – Making Plugin Purchases Easy
The WP App Store is now open for business! The WordPress App Store is a quick and easy way to purchase and install premium WordPress themes and plugins all in one place. It’s that simple! With brands like Woo Themes and ThemeJam or plugins like Gravity Forms – there isn’t much of a reason not Continue Reading »
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Giveaway: Receive a Full Refund on your wpLifeGuard Membership
As a thanks to all of our members, we would like to give a full refund to two lucky people. It’s easy! Simply submit a testimonial telling us what you like about your wpLifeGuard membership and you’ll be entered to win. On Tuesday, April 17th we will randomly select two members to win a full Continue Reading »
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Keep WordPress from Compressing JPGs
A little known WordPress feature is WordPress’ image compression. While this is a handy feature to help increase the speed of your website, not all website owners want their images compressed – like photographers for example. Thankfully, turning off this feature is quick and easy. Simply add the following to your WordPress theme’s functions.php file. add_filter(’jpeg_quality’, Continue Reading »
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Easily Create Galleries and Slideshows with WordPress
Showcase by Dev7studios makes the whole process of uploading, ordering and editing your images as simple as it can be. Then it makes your gallery look stunning by automatically showing your gallery in a beautiful “lightbox” slideshow. Built in features like dynamic image resizing and simple lightbox theme changing just make it all the better. Continue Reading »
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How to Add Links to WordPress 3.3′s Admin Bar
One of the great additions to WordPress 3.3 is the updated admin bar. Not only does the admin bar add some nifty quick links – but you and plugins can add links of your own to it. It’s pretty simple and straightforward. How to Add a Single Link to the WordPress Admin Bar <?php add_action(’admin_bar_menu’, ‘add_toolbar_items’, Continue Reading »
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Boost Your Restaurant with Quality Restaurant Focused WordPress Themes and Hosting
Restaurant Engine is a new service that offers “a turnkey, hosted website solution designed specifically for Restaurants.” If you’re a restaurant owner that needs a WordPress website and can’t afford a custom design, Restaurant Engine is for you. Restaurant Engine’s quick and easy restaurant web hosting service makes it a cinch to setup a feature Continue Reading »
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How to Add Custom Alerts to a WordPress Dashboard
There are many different ways to reach out to your users – email newsletter, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. The problem with these communication mediums is that users must opt in to receive these notifications. With this simple code snippet you can now place alerts in the WordPress dashboard without your users opting in to receive notifications. Continue Reading »
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How to Remove 16,000+ Comments and Combat SPAM on your WordPress Blog
Recently One of my WordPress blogs received 16000+ SPAM Comments in a span of just over a month. Statistics / Graphs Notice the spike in bandwidth (green) and then the drop when the spam techniques were implemented. Again, notice how much bandwidth is used before and after spam techniques were implemented. The Damage Spam Can Continue Reading »
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WordPress Easter Egg
The creators of WordPress, Automattic, really are a fantastic group who not only made the greatest CMS currently available, they also take time to have a little fun. This is evident by this WordPress Easter Egg. What’s an Easter Egg? Well, aside from those plastic eggs filled with delicous chocolate, an Easter Egg is an Continue Reading »
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How to Disable Theme Switching from the WordPress Dashboard
Sometimes clients can mess with or even break their WordPress site. One of the ways they’ll do this is by changing their WordPress theme – this can easily be prevented with a little PHP. How to Disable WordPress Theme Switching Paste the following code in your WordPress Theme’s functions.php to completely disable WordPress theme switching Continue Reading »