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Thanks to Seano I have been using Google Chrome to make my life easier.  How you ask?  Well, Chrome has a really nice bookmarking feature that will allow you to create a standalone instance of Chrome for what ever bookmarked site you want.  I use it religiously for Pandora , Google reader, Whos.amung.us, hulu, and [...]

With the coming release of WordPress 2.7 we now have an easy way to separate out your pings and trackbacks from your comments. I will be using the default theme WordPress comes with to show you have to do this.  Below is the important code you should focus on:

Backwards-Compatible Spam and Delete Buttons for WordPress Add Spam and Delete buttons right to the comments for WordPress installs below 2.6. Disabling the update nag Removes that nagging “WordPress [Version] is available! Please update now” message from your admin area. Add Your Website to Firefox’s Search Bar Using OpenSearch XML The ability to search right [...]

Have you ever needed to see what a theme looks like with your content but you did not want to have to recreate your whole site on a testing server and import all your data?  Well, Theme Test Drive to the rescue. You simply download the plugin, unzip it, upload it to your WordPress install, [...]

For some time now I have been using Really Simple History for my applications that use a good amount of AJAX. RSH is exactly what it sounds like, it is a really simple way of adding history and bookmarking to your AJAXified apps.  To see it in action have a look at the Mason’s Graduate [...]

David Walsh posted a priceless and overly useful post about Send Email Notifications for Broken Images Using MooTools Ajax but the only problem with that is that he used MooTools ;). For those that want to do the same thing with jQuery here is the JavaScript code, please have a read at his post for [...]

I’ve been using Blueprint css framework for a bit now mainly for the typography structure it provides.  But lately I’ve been investigating the rest of the framework.  Just a few weeks ago I noticed some of the default classes it has for forms error, notice and success. Although they do and look like you would [...]

If you are a WordPress plugin Developer then you most likely have used the “add_menu_page” function before.  With WordPress 2.7 you can now add an icon to your plugin to be shown in the new side menu in the admin area. php < view plain text > add_menu_page( $page_title, $menu_title, $access_level, $file, $function = ”, [...]

WordPress 2.7 will be release sometime soon and with it comes a new feature call “favorite actions,” it’s a drop down menu that is sort of a quick launch to your most used actions. Right now it only contains “Add New Post”, “Add New Page” and “Manage Comments”. Like with most features in WordPress, you [...]

Say you want to wanted to put little tabs – you know, the ones like what you get from a lawyer or a realestate again to point out important things – off the side of your page so that your users can click, bring that tab into view to see what important information you want [...]