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WordPress Plugin Info Plugin I’ve been playing around with the WordPress Plugin Info Plugin for the last couple of days and have implemented it on MyWordPress. Basically this plugin pulls information regarding a specific plugin that is hosted on the WordPress directory. Theres a vast array of info that can be called back by specifying [...]

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I have installed the WordPress Theme Demo Bar by Zenverse on my Stallion Theme Test Site. The WordPress Theme Demo Bar allows any wordpress theme to be previewed without activating it.The  demo bar is shown on top the page, allow users to preview another theme. I have set the widget up in the sidebar so it easy to swith [...]

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Its time to get some of my WordPress sites set up to be more responsive to the ‘Mobile World’ . So I have spent the last couple of days investigating responsive themes. Firstly what is a responsive theme ?? A responsive theme should enable your site to work on the plethora of new devices and screen resolutions [...]

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Wp All Import Purchase Well I’ve finally got round to purchasing another datafeed importer. Now if this plugin operates as described and the support exists then I will be happy. WP All Import is a powerful WordPress affiliate store building plugin. WP All Import lets you create a ready-to-promote affiliate store, populated with thousands of [...]

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Simple Lightbox WordPress Plugin Want to display images in WordPress overlayed on to your sites page heres a very simple way using Simple Lightbox. Firstly ‘Lightbox’ is a method of showing an image on a Web page without leaving the page.It basically creates a pop-up of the image that is clicked. I have been looking for an [...]

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I have spent a considerable amount of time over the last couple of days messing about with RSS Aggregators with various levels of success.
In the end I have opted for the super simple ,and by simple I mean simple but powerful

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The Post Title Scrolling at the top of www.mywordpress.co.uk is created using the Post Title Marquee Scroll WordPress plug-in.

This plugin gives you a number of options

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The recent version of Shortcodes Ultimate gives us the Accordian shortcode.Basically this means that when you have more than one spoiler on a post or page only 1 of them will stay open. To understand what this means have a look at the demo below. Stallion Theme users may notice that I am using the Remove [...]

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The Scrolling Pop-Up for WordPress gives you a simple way to drop a Pop-Up box onto your site. I have the POP-Up configured to show an AD on the home page which is activated from a PHP call in the header and then the demo POP-UP that displays when this post is visited which is [...]

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The latest version of the Stallion WordPress Theme is now available .

A few of the changes are listed here

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A nice way to review the colour options for your WordPress Theme is to give the user the ability to review what CSS layouts are available. The Chameleon CSS Switcher WordPress Plugin by the Wegrass team allows you to give your site this ability. The Chameleon CSS plugin has the following options Time condition : sunrise, [...]

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The latest update to the Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress enables a shortcode for embedding a simple google map. To demonstrate I have recently come back from a weeks break in Weymouth were we had hired a cottage ,   Again really  simple to use.

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The Seven Days WordPress Plugin by the Wegrass Team gives you the option to set what days of the week a widget is displayed. A nice graphical interface which you just click to show or hide what days your widget will appear. So for testing purposes I have set up seven widgets with each one set to [...]

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Having installed the Shortcodes into  Text Widget Plugin thought I would look at expanding the smilies usage on MyWordPress . Having tried out a couple of smilies plugins I have opted for the Custom Smilies plugin by Crazy Loong . This adds a popup  selector on the write post menu so you can pick a smiley to insert  also adds [...]

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The Vertical Scroller for WordPress  or  gives you an easy way to put vertical scrolling content into your widgetized theme. The WordPress vertical scroller scrolls each entry one at time within the widget. Its easy to install and setup ,you can set a expiration date for each entry and customise the display. You can use this Vertical [...]

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Finally got round to updating MyWordpress to 2.9.1 might just be me but the site seems a bit quicker now. While I was at it I have updated a couple of plugins to the latest versions so its time for a coffee

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To move files across the Web you will need to make use of  some FTP software (File Transfer Protocol).This is essential when you consider you may want to upload content from your local machine to your web site. There are many hundreds of software packages that can acheive this but again I was not looking to [...]

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Have just upgraded My Wordpress to Wordpress 2.9.

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Have just updated my WordPress for Blackberry to verion 9.0.169 hopefully this as fixed the issue – was having yesterday with malformed posts.

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I wonder if it would be possible when using WordPress from a Blackberry that you could look up tags in the same way you can select categories.

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This is a great plugin that checks for spam content You need to obtain a Api Key to enable this Plugin this is pretty straight forward. Download the plugin Here. Unzip and copy to your server plugin directory.Goto the Akismet Configuration and get your API key,insert this in the required place save and activate the [...]

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ALinks is a WordPress plugin that automatically turns defined keyphrases into links.Makes it easy to manage your affiliate links.

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This plugin allows you to reference wikipedia articles by using a simple syntax it is very easy to add extra content to your site without having to spend time typing. I use this as an added value item to enable the visitor to this site to gain more knowledge. Heres an example of what this [...]

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New Theme used on MyWordpress the Themetic Theming System

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I have removed BuddyPress from MyWordpress due to performance issues. The concept of BuddyPress and the ability to integrate it into WordPress is great and though there have been a number of suggestions/solutions to performance issues it really does not work for me. To be honest one of the great things about WordPress is the ‘Plug [...]

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