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Miriam is the friendly CEO of illuminea, a WordPress design and development agency. Miriam is a huge fan of WordPress and has been using it for over five years now. In addition, Miriam and her team have been organizing the local Israeli WordCamp conferences for the past few years.

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Displaying Flickr images in sidebar or footer of WordPress blog

| August 30, 2007 | 3 Comments
We were building a site where we wanted a strip of flickr images from a specific flickr group, or with specific tags, to show up in the footer, and to update automatically as new images became available on the flickr group or with those keywords. The best solution seemed to be ... View Post

Create Flash header or slideshow on WordPress easily with Flashfader plugin

| August 5, 2007 | 62 Comments
My Flash skills are non-existent, so when a client requested some kind of Flash header where the images fade out and in, I was happy that I remembered that I had once come a across a ... View Post

Things I do to optimize and secure every WordPress site and blog

| July 6, 2007 | 7 Comments
(Updated Sept. 9, 2007) I have compiled a to-do list of plugins that I install and steps that I take to optimize and secure every WordPress site or blog that I create. This list will be updated with new developments or plugins and tips that I discover, so make sure to check ... View Post

Relooking at the Page Links To Plugin

| June 21, 2007 | 9 Comments
Since I discovered the Page Links To plugin, it's become one of the plugins that I use most on my sites, particularly those where I'm using WordPress to create a CMS. I've reviewed it already (see the review here), but it seems that ... View Post

Viper’s Video Quicktags is the best for embedding movies

| June 10, 2007 | 6 Comments
After trying out many of the plugins available for helping WordPress users embed videos in their posts and Pages, the one that I find to be the best is Viper's Video Quicktags plugin. Once activated, you can select which types of videos you want to become available on the ... View Post

Adding unlimited streaming video to your site with Google Video

| April 23, 2007 | 1 Comment
A client gave me a 15 minute movie that they wanted uploaded to their site. The problem with such a long video is that it needs to be streamed, or else the user has to wait until a good portion is downloaded before they can view it. But adding streaming Flash video demands some ... View Post

Method for speeding up Google Analytics

| March 31, 2007 | 0 Comments
Google Analytics is a popular tool used by web owners to monitor their site statistics. It can be easily installed on WordPress using any one of a number of plugins designed for that purpose. However, it can slow down the performance of your site, especially on a CMS system like WordPress.... View Post

Are Flash blogs the future?

| March 20, 2007 | 2 Comments
LutinCapuche Blog has developed a plugin called FlogMaker that changes your blog to a Flash-based blog. You can see a demo of a Flash blog on the site, and manipulate the background, colors, and more and see the results. It works like any other plugin, where ... View Post

Cool post title design at cfTopper

| March 2, 2007 | 0 Comments
cfTopper has the coolest design for post titles that I think I've ever seen. He has the post title with a reflection close underneath. Take a look: cfTopper post title example I tried to get an idea of how he does it by using Firefox Web Developer and ... View Post

Page Links To

| March 1, 2007 | 0 Comments
The Page Links To plugin allows WordPress Pages to link to any page you would like. I recently used it on a site where the top nav bar is comprised of pages, but two of the pages - the news and resources pages - needed to have dynamic content ... View Post
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