Last night I attended MashBash Tel Aviv, an intimate gathering of Mashable's Adam Hirsch and 800 of his closest friends from the Israeli hi-tech industry. In between having fun and getting served free drinks for three hours, I managed to learn something new. I learned about "social proof."
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There is one WordPress theme file that I almost never touch when working on a theme: comments.php. I usually style WordPress comments via the CSS sheet, and that's that.
Well, there's a lot you can do to customize and extend WordPress comments if you just know how. ...
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WordPress blogs and sites can be notoriously slow. But fear not - here are ways to make your WordPress blog super speedy and fun for your visitors to view with a few tweaks, hacks and plugins. Be sure to check back because I will be updating this post as I discover new and wonderful ...
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When starting out, many bloggers seek out the cheap and easy route, either choosing to blog on Blogger, WordPress.com, or another free and hosted blogging platform. This approach makes sense, since a person can never know until they've started if they even like blogging, let alone whether they'll be successful.I ...
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I know that Gmail and Firefox don't really have anything to do with WordPress, but I decided to write about them anyways because:
I have nothing earth-shattering to say about WordPress right now. Everyone else is talking about version 2.5, and I still haven't installed it (my bad) so I don't have anything
The WordPress TinyMCE editor mercilessly strips tags at will. Some will tell you that in order to avoid this problem you should disable the visual editor, but this is not a realistic solution since a. Many people feel more comfortable using a visual editor and b. ...
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Update March 23, 2008: The code that I originally wrote below based on Roland O'Connor's post didn't work. I subsequently found this WordPress Forum topic, which had the correct code to replace, and I've corrected the post below.Also, I wrote a follow-up post to this one with more ...
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Blueprint CSS may just be the answer to all our CSS layout woes. Most, if not all, WordPress blog themes use CSS for laying out the design. But as any website or blog developer knows, using CSS for layouts can be one of the causes of early aging, high blood pressure, ...
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Darren Hoyt, that brilliant WordPress developer and designer, explains how you can publish RSS feed headlines on your WordPress blog with a built-in WordPress function instead of using a plugin.
As Darren says, this code snippet is not intended for scrapers; it's for people who have ...
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Have you ever been working on your WordPress blog's design, when you refresh the page only to find that it's decided to revert to the default theme?
This has happened to me pretty often, and apparently I'm not the only one. Mark O'Neill says that his WordPress ...
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Get to know every line of your comments.php WordPress theme file