I’ve been helping Ron update his website over at ronmayhewphotography.com for the last few weeks. I thought about placing this post over in the portfolio section of my site, but, really, all I did was supply a little CSS know-how and some other minor tweaks to help him achieve the look he wanted. While Ron is fond of telling me “I’m a photographer, not a web developer”, five minutes on his site will prove him wrong. ...
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Whether for business or professional use, these are the top four things that I always find myself recommending. The first is Dropbox. No matter how easy software and hardware manufacturers try to make computer networking and file sharing, the technology still remains out-of-reach for most normal computer users without help from technology professionals. Dropbox pushes all the complexity aside, allowing people to share files with different...
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I’m currently working on a new theme for use in Real Estate. Building off of the experience I had with my last project in the industry, there are a few lessons I learned that I’m trying to apply directly to the new theme. Its All About the Search! Nearly 90% of site visitors go directly to the property search. Therefore, not only should the search be prominent, it should be the first thing they see, the last thing they see, and if...
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I wanted a way to allow my theme users to create posts, upload an image for the post, and have that image be used all over the place without the user having to specify the image as the post thumbnail or use any other custom fields. Justin Tadlock’s Get-the-Image plugin works nicely for digging images out of posts. Timthumb.php by McDaniels, Hoyt, and Gillbanks has been the standard in image resizing for a while. Getting these two scripts...
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While I could call it a “work in progress”, the truth is, I’ve learned so much while building Shabadoo that I’ve taken what I’ve learned and moved on to other projects. As a Thematic child-theme development toddler, I’m hoping that Shabadoo will be of some use to a child-theme development infant. Here’s the story… To those who know Thematic, they’ll immediately recognize what Shabadoo really...
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What this covers: 1. How to configure VieleRETS for use with WP-Realty 2. How to configure a batch job in VieleRETS 3. How to configure a batch job to run in CRON
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