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iPhorm – Building Forms Just Got Easy : WordPress Plugin Review

Posted in Articles on November 30th, 2011 iPhorm

I’ve been wanting to write some plugin reviews for a while now have only managed a couple. So when the guys over at themeCatcher asked me to take a look at their new plugin iPhorm, I thought it was a great opportunity to write one.

So iPhorm, a form builder for WordPress, yes before you say it, I know there are a number of form building plugins out there at the moment (such as Contact Form 7 and Form Builder), but you really should take a look and see how this plugin compares, it won’t disappoint I promise.

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Social Sharing Toolkit Plugin WordPress :: Use within Loop

Posted in Articles on November 17th, 2011 Social Sharing Toolkit Plugin WordPress :: Use within Loop

I recently installed the Social Sharing Toolkit by Marijn Rongen for a project I am working on. Its a fantastic plugin and very simple to use but I came across an issue when trying to add it within the Loop on my post listing pages. Looking through the documentation I found no reference of any PHP functions you could use. After digging around the Plugin code it’s self for a while I finally found a solution that works.

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Why Aren’t Splash Pages Dead Yet?

Posted in Articles on February 25th, 2011 Why Aren't Splash Pages, Dead Yet?

Splash pages; a marketers dream but a developers nightmare, that’s how I would describe them. Obviously as I am a developer I’m going to be slightly biased but really, how can something that goes against web standards and SEO so badly, still be used so heavily on today’s Internet?

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WordPress Featured Image Option

Posted in Articles on February 24th, 2011 WordPress Featured Image Option

I recently discovered a feature in WordPress that I never knew existed called Featured Image. Apparently its was added in v2.9, but I must of completely over looked it. My guessing is that this is one of the most underused features in WordPress, but is such a quick and easy to add main images to your posts or pages.

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Disable/Remove New Admin Bar in WordPress 3.1

Posted in Articles on February 23rd, 2011 Disable/Remove New Admin Bar in WordPress 3.1

For those of you who aren’t ready to let their clients loose with the new admin bar feature that was launched today with v3.1 of WordPress, then there are a couple of ways to remove it.

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