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Gmail Navigation in pure CSS3, how does it work?

We could call it a trend. If you take a look at the Gmail navigation, and then at the way buttons are styled on YouTube, you’ll start noticing similarities. When you over the navigation menu, the item...

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CSSrefresh, automatically refresh stylesheets as soon as you save

If you’re like me, obsessed with the minimal, meaningless detail specially when it boils down to refine stylesheets, you likely prove mastery over the subtle art of typing and switching from the editor...

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There is not such a thing like a basic website

How many times someone asked you how much would you charge for a basic website? Do you really think they’ve been interested in having a basic website? Who does want such a thing like a basic,...

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How unfair we often are toward plugins developers

Designing website for, and with WordPress since three years by now, I’ve archived few blocks of code that I’m willing to convert into one or more plugins. I also admit that third parties’ plugins are a...

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Infographic – How to train a remote employee?

I had experienced working remotely for agencies and companies. A neat communication is obviously extremely important. Never assume others understood or know already what you’ve never explicitly told...

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How well Alister Cameron nailed down in 2008 – The future of WordPress Themes

Looking behind, in the past, it’s so intriguing. What big names, involved in the develop of WordPress since the beginning, said of the future? What did they think it was going to happen? Not many of...

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Does WordPress fail to upgrade or upload?

I had recently an issue on one of my customers website which puzzled me. I was getting an error while uploading a new media or if I tried to automatically update plugins. I was getting an ungraceful...

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Ultimate WordPress body_class function

I wasn’t happy with the default body_class() function in WordPress. I wanted to assign more classes to the body element in order to target various sections or specific pages across the website, so that...

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WordPress Move, how to fix the Fatal Error on Activation

In our normal routine, it isn’t uncommon to migrate a WordPress site, most of the times from production to its final domain. The plugin WordPress Move (realized and maintained by Mert Yazicioglu) is an...

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Why turning off few clients is beneficial for your business. And ultimately...

Some clients are a joy to work for, but for the most of us they’re just a few. In the rush to get customers and work, we all have the tendency to accept junk and binding tasks. That ends up in us...

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Quick fix for the notice “wpdb::escape is deprecated since version 3.6″

Assuming you have set to true the variable WP_DEBUG, upgrading to the latest stable release of WordPress, at the present 3.6, may call in a disquieting error message on the top of the page. Notice:...

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How to remove the “install the free WPMU DEV Dashboard plugin” message

Despite the quality of their plugins and themes, I noticed that the support offered by WPMUDEV is not always top notch. There are things they do not like to say, or are not particularly happy to help...

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Quick fix for the notice “wpdb::escape is deprecated since version 3.6″

Assuming you have set to true the variable WP_DEBUG, upgrading to the latest stable release of WordPress, at the present 3.6, may call in a disquieting error message on the top of the page. Notice:...

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How to remove the “install the free WPMU DEV Dashboard plugin” message

Despite the quality of their plugins and themes, I noticed that the support offered by WPMUDEV is not always top notch. There are things they do not like to say, or are not particularly happy to help...

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Hello world! A fresh restart.

Hello there. My apologises for not letting you finding the usual content on the site. I’m resetting the whole blog and multisite, finally fixing what I left behind in the last four years. The new blog...

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Redirection 301 and 302 in WordPress

How to preserve the SEO value of a page on your site when you need to change its permalink or URL? A resource on your site, being a page, a post, an article, or other, accumulates value (rank) with...

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10+ quick and dirty tips to boost your productivity as a freelancer

Working as freelancer undoubtedly offers few advantages. It also demands responsibility and a precise time management. The difference between a pro and a beginner ultimately lays in how good one is in...

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WordPress 3.7 and Automatic Core Updates

There are been rumours, and it is now official. WordPress 3.7 will have the capabilities to auto upgrade itself, for now limited to core and security releases. More precisely, by default WordPress 3.7...

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Path to mysqldump and mysql for MAMP

Today I had a small issue with MAMP and the WP-DBManager plugin (which, by the way, is neat and awesome). On the DB Options page for the plugin I could not find the path to mysqldump and mysql. The...

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Remove the Gallery Inline Styling in WordPress

At some point it is inevitable to get a bit annoyed by how the gallery shortcode outputs a bunch of inline styling straight into the markup. In fact, removing the block of CSS altogether is trivial....

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