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LTR alignment icon added to Hebrew and Arabic WordPress in version 3.4

| July 2, 2012 | 2 Comments

When WordPress 3.4 was released a few weeks ago, many posts were written reviewing the great new features that the release included, like embeddable tweets, linkable photo captions, and theme options. However, one new feature that was added in 3.4 was barely mentioned anywhere, and we only know about it due to

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5 Useful Tips for Gravity Forms

| June 27, 2012 | 4 Comments

We are huge fans of Gravity Forms (so obviously we're an affiliate), a premium WordPress plugin for creating forms, because nerdily enough, it actually makes creating forms kinda fun. But most importantly, Gravity Forms makes it really easy for

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Data Serialization, WordPress, and my new best friend

| May 3, 2012 | 4 Comments

Recently, Miriam wrote about Data Serialization and what a pain in the tuchus it can be to migrate a site that has serialized links in the database.

So, today, when I migrated one of our client's sites from our staging server to the live/production server, I was frustrated that some of the widgets

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Data portability and data serialization in WordPress

| April 10, 2012 | 26 Comments

Over at illuminea, we’ve been migrating WordPress sites for years. So we thought we’d seen it all when it came to WordPress migration. And yet, recently we encountered an issue that we had never dealt with before, that puts a snag in the ease with which you can move WordPress sites: data

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How to localize a Hebrew website’s Dashboard with WordPress Multisite

| November 15, 2011 | 1 Comment

Many of our clients request English and Hebrew websites and ever since WordPress 3.0 made WordPress Multisite a breeze to install, we've been using it so that clients can manage all their sites from one Dashboard.

Logically, our clients want the Hebrew website to have a Hebrew Dashboard. However, out of the box, WordPress Multisite defaults

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How to Re-enable and Allow Comments in Older Posts in WordPress

| November 15, 2011 | 2 Comments

We had a client come to us and ask how to re-enable comments on older posts. I started searching around and found 2 ways of allowing comments on many posts at once.

1. Use the built-in WordPress Bulk Edit feature.

This feature was introduced back in version 2.7 but only now did I fall in

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How to embed a .wmv file in WordPress

| November 7, 2011 | 7 Comments

A client recently asked us how they could embed .wmv files in their WordPress site so that it plays in a video player. Interestingly, we're so used to working with video websites like YouTube and Vimeo which allow easy embedding by just pasting

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How to share a draft with a private URL in WordPress

| May 30, 2011 | 5 Comments
It's been a while since I've been so excited about a plugin. Enough that it inspired me to write a post about it. I've always wanted to share drafts of posts with people before I publish them but didn't want to bother them with "can you log in, look at the post and let me ... View Post

Allow Editor access level to add users in WordPress

| May 29, 2011 | 2 Comments
Recently, a client asked us to allow editors to add users on their WordPress site. They wanted this feature so that the site managers wouldn't be tempted to click on any of the settings, and possibly mess something up. I know this is super specific but it did come up for us so maybe ... View Post

How to add images and styles to the WordPress custom menu

| May 24, 2011 | 9 Comments
There are lots of good plugins out there for displaying social media profiles on your site, but what if you want to use your own icons? And you want your client to be able to easily manage the links to these social profiles? The solution is to create a custom menu in WordPress with ... View Post
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