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WordPress: Add Your Own Branding
WordPress is a great open source platform to build on and we have nothing but respect for their work, but wouldn't it be nice to make a few modifications to the back end such as removing the WordPress logo from the log-in screen and dashboard and replace them with your own identity or even your Client's? There are three main locations that we will be looking at in this tutorial to really make the site your own. First we will be working on the log-in screen, removing the WordPress branding and altering the link, the admin Dashboard where we will alter the smaller WordPress ghost branding and lastly we will take a look at the footer.php...
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Six Interesting iPhone Apps you have probably already heard about from another web site.
iPhone apps are everywhere these days and the market is currently overflowing with millions of these tiny, untouchable applications. The closest comparison I see this flood of apps is the height of the Atari 2600 era. Any game that could be developed was, the target market for games was unclear, the hype was through the roof and the market became so saturated with these games that the gaming economy was declared bust. It's difficult to visit the office next door without apps sneaking their way into the conversation at some point, granted the neighbors run a software company but that's beside the point. Just about every company is...
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WordPress: Provide a Better Naming Convention for Thumbnails
We never really brought the WordPress thumbnail feature to its full potential until recently. Initially, we assumed that WordPress provided a codex tag that would allow for the easy insertion of a thumbnail image, keeping it separate from the full-size image, something such as wp_thumbnail would have been perfect. What we discovered was that WordPress has no such tag or simple naming convention set for the use of thumbnails. This isn't to say WordPress hasn't thought about this at all. What WordPress does provide are a few options for basic thumbnail insertion. The first option is to simply add a link to the thumbnail image ( http://www.mysite.com/wp-content/uploads/myImage-125x125.jpg...
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Tutorial: Flutter Duplicate Fields
Creating duplicate fields through Freshout's WordPress plugin, Flutter has been a little on the mysterious side up to this point. No documentation seems to exist for this feature with the exception of simply repeating a php get_post_meta tag for each Custom Field. The true beauty behind the duplicate fields lies within the ability to utilize a single php function to echo all fields as they are created on the fly. An example: I set up a Custom Write Panel Page titled "Upcoming Events". Within this page is a group and the option for duplication is checked. Let's title this group "Event" and create a Custom Write Fields like so: CUSTOM...
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Tutorial: Condensing the Flutter menu
One of the few flaws we've found with Freshout's WordPress plugin entitled Flutter is the manner in which it displays Custom Write Panels. Flutter lists the Write Panels in the WordPress navigation under no distinct heading. WordPress breaks the navigation down in an orderly fashion for us: Dashboard, Posts, Media, Links, etc. only to be interrupted by what typically turns into five to eight Custom Write Panels making a mess of the usability. The problem becomes truly evident when combining it with Ozh's Drop Down Menu plugin where the added horizontal menu can quickly be overwhelmed by multiple Custom Write Panels pushing the Ozh...
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