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I have been using this plugin for almost a year. When it works it is great! When I upgraded to WordPress 2.5 I started having a problem with the final two steps, reactivating the plugins and going to the final page. Before I could activate the plugins I had to upgrade the data base. Then [...]

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I upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1 today and my old theme broke. I have been looking at Cutline for some time but I have not been motivated enough to commit the time.  Today I had the motivation. I am really pleased that I had it ready to go in about thirty minutes.
Cutline 1.3 Released | Cutline [...]

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A PCI audit point I saw recently recommended that servers not respond to ICMP timestamp requests. For externally based web servers this probably means asking your host provider to implement a rule on their router to block ICMP packets type 13 or 14 with a code of 0. I haven’t tried this but this should allow normal maintenance packets(e.g. ping) and prevent echo tests using timestamp requests.

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Recently I changed some of my sites to not use the "www" on the front of the URL. It was a little tricky but I got it working right. The first part is to change WordPress to use shorter URL. The second part of the change was to modify the .htaccess file. I found that  [...]

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I installed WordPress 2.5 last Saturday on all of the blogs I support. It had passed some preliminary testing on my development blog so I installed it. It is supposed to have increased security, better administrative panels, and the ability to upgrade plugins automatically. They say there are very few changes that will affect the [...]

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Okay, Markus said I shouldn’t do this but I installed Opera@USB on my USB drive and renamed a few files. I wanted Opera to appear as a menu item in the PortableApps Menu.  Here is how I did this.

First I created a directory under the PortableApps directory called, OperaPortable. You can name it anything you [...]

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I ran across this page in one of the blogs I read but I do not remember which. I installed YSlow to check out my web sites. It was an easy check. The rules I consistently failed were rules 3 and 4. I came back here for the explanations. Implementing fixes for these rules can [...]

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Here is a handy checklist for people creating or modifying WordPress themes.
Note: The following checklist was based on WordPress 2.0. Since WordPress 2.1, WordPress has replaced and introduced new template tags.
Files, functions, and to-dos you need to check-off before using / publishing your own unique WordPress theme:
Files and Templates

404.php
archive.php
category.php [...]

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A magazine theme with some interesting ideas. I do not know if I am going to use it but I may use an idea or two. Nice work Alessandro!

Options WordPress Theme: What WordPress themes should be likealessssandro Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:30:00 GMT

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I am looking at moving all of the photos on an existing site over to Flickr. The plan is to convert the site over to WordPress and use the images from Flickr so I wanted an easy way to insert photos. I was looking for something that would be as simple to use as ImageManager [...]

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bookmark this on del.icio.us - first posted by lordpet to browser webdesign tools design test - more about this bookmark…

Test your web design in different browsers - Browsershotslordpet Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:30:00 GMT
This is an interesting site but do not expect quick results from the web site. It creates [...]

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Today I ran across Bennett’s jQuery version of the Share This plugin. By using plugins based on jQuery rather than Prototype library, I reduced the load time for several web sites. I still had one web site that used the Prototype library and I suspected it was because of the Share This plugin. By switching [...]

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Today I tried to get Chili to work on this blog. I post code occasionally and Chili was appealing to me since it uses jQuery for most of the heavy lifting. I was hopeful that Chili would be quick and incrementally increase the amount of JavaScript downloaded. Chili didn’t work for me. It had syntax [...]

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Shadowbox.js Media ViewerI_CRE8 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:00:00 GMT
This looks interesting but it is considerably larger than my current jQuery lightbox plugin. Since I do not use flash or the other media the plugin supports, this plugin has limited benefits for my personal use and most of the web sites I maintain. [...]

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Recently I found an interesting problem. A person complained to me that a link on a web page did not work. When I went to the page I was able to duplicate the problem with my default browser, Internet Explorer. Since I was pretty sure the developer who composed the page would have tested their [...]

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Thank you to everyone who tried out the beta releases of Writer over the last year and gave us feedback. Over 1.5 million of you downloaded our last beta release, and your input helped make Writer the product it is today. 
Our goal from the start has been to help make blogging more powerful, intuitive, [...]

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Every web designer finds it handy to have a collection of code snippets such as javascript effects, pieces of html and widgets that they incorporate into their designs. Lets take a look at recent examples of these …

This is an interesting collection of snippets that I need to investigate further. The creativity in web development [...]

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In a previous post I said that jQuery 1.2 did not work with tablesorter. Well, Christian and the folks at jQuery have made some updates and they work together now. You need both the 2.01 version of tablesorter and the 1.2.1 version of jQuery.

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I tried jQuery 1.2 this week on my phpWebsite demo site but the zebra tables in tablesorter did not work for me. I got a dark gray table rather than a striped table. The folks know about the problem and it looks like someone has offered a fix. I will wait for those folks to [...]

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In a previous post I started creating a phpWebSite theme based on Blueprint. My plan is to convert an existing phpWebSite to the latest version but a theme for the latest phpWebSite(1.3.0) is not ready yet. Since my idea of humor is frequently referred to as cheesy I am calling this new theme, Bleuprint.The theme has [...]

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