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Pro Blog Design
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Advice for blog owners and designers on making a more attractive, usable and ultimately profitable blog.
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Working With WordPress Shortcodes
WordPress shortcodes are used frequently in plugins and themes as a way to achieve extra functionality, without the need to modify template files. You just type the shortcode word right into your post. Some plugins and themes use them to add event calendars, some for making announcements, while others use them for inserting contact forms.
Simply, WP shortcodes are awesome.
However, what if you're a theme / plugin developer wishing to use them for your next great product, but you have no idea where to start? We're going to fix that in this tutorial.
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How to Edit the WordPress RSS Feed
Ever thought you could make some improvements to your RSS feed? Like letting it cover more (or less!) content? Or adding some extra details onto the end of your posts?
In this post, I'm going to show you how to do exactly that.
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Design Critique: B2Bbloggers.com
B2Bbloggers.com is a B2B marketing site that features a lot of guest posts on B2B marketing, and highlights a lot of content from around the niche.
We're going to take a look at the site's design today, critique it, and work out how we could improve it. As we do hopefully you'll learn to apply this same methodology to your own site.
We'll be working through this design as a case study, redesigning each section along the way, so you get to see each item as we rework it, including the full before and after design.
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MyBiz Theme for WordPress Discount Code
Over on PliablePress, we've released our newest WordPress theme. MyBiz is designed for modern businesses who don't want the "faceless-company" approach that customers are used to receiving.
It's vibrant, colorful (You even get 5 color schemes to choose from!) and yet still professional and well organized. Most of all, we've put an extreme amount of care into the homepage, giving you 3 different ways to ensure your best content is highlighted and that your visitors go to the pages you want them to see.
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How To Write a Restricted Content Plugin
There are a lot of sites out there, particularly digital education sites, such as Net Tuts and Blender Cookie, that push out a lot of "premium" content that is only accessible to registered users.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you some of the basics of writing a WordPress plugin from scratch that will allow you to restrict content on your site to registered users. You will be able to restrict complete pages / posts by clicking a check box or just sections of content using WordPress shortcodes.
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Custom Font Uploader for WordPress Themes
WordPress theme option panels were a tremendous stride in the world of theme development; they gave site owner's the ability to modify various aspects of their site, without ever having to touch the code. Every great theme either has or should have an extensive options panel.
In this tutorial, I'm going to demonstrate how to add a custom font uploader to your options panel. This will allow site owners to upload any number of font files and apply them to different sections of the site.
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30 Pro jQuery Tips, Tricks and Strategies
Whether you're a developer or a designer, a strong jQuery skillset is something you can't afford to be without. Today, I'm going to show you 30 handy jQuery coding tricks that will help you make your scripts more robust, elegant and professional.
Getting Started
These tips and tricks all have one thing in common- they are all smashingly useful. With this stuff in your back pocket, you'll be ready to go change the world, and even better, write jQuery like you know what you're doing. It's gonna be fun.
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I Just Dont Care About the GPL/Licenses
There has been another GPL storm going on in the WordPress world in the past few days. Yep, again.
I don't normally make a comment on them, but given that I'm directly involved with it now through PliablePress themes (All of our themes have to come with some sort of license, right?), it seems time to finally step in.
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Get Your WordPress Themes from PliablePress!
Anyone following me on Twitter will already know this by now, but our big project, PliablePress, went live around 24 hours ago! And it’s been great! It’s been crazy and I’ve been chasing things around everywhere and I meant to have this post published, well, 24 hours ago, but all of that aside, it’s been great. We’ve had loads of great reactions to the designs, and even our first happy customers! In this post I want to show you what we’ve done so far, share some videos of the framework in action, and offer you a discount if you want to become a customer!
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3 Years On, Time To Show You Who I am?
(This is more of a personal post than normal. If that’s not your thing, sorry, but at least I warned you!) My name’s Michael Martin, and I’m the person behind Pro Blog Design. If you’ve ever emailed in, tweeted, or left a Facebook message (or most likely, even if you’ve just left a comment here!) then you’ve talked to me before.
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