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  • Limit the Length of WordPress Post Titles

    Aug032010
    limit-post-titles

    Recently we were working on a WordPress website with a very specific layout that meant post titles on the blog homepage could only be a certain length before they started effecting the pixel perfect layout of that page. To conquer this we decided to adopt an old method of shortening the title tag and adding [...]

    Magento: Subcategories inside Parent Category

    Jul272010
    Subcategories Magento

    In this tutorial I will be explaining how to display subcategory thumbnails within a parent category. This will allow your visitors to narrow down their search accordingly as opposed to being overloaded with all of the products from within a parent category at once, like Magento does by default. An Example of Subcategories within a [...]

    11 Amazing @font-face Typefaces

    Jul262010
    font-face

    In this collection we have tried to group together 11 of the best free fonts that specifically allow @font-face embedding. Junction – The League of Movable Type Sorts Mill Goudy – The League of Movable Type Sertig – Type The Font Code – Fontfabric Raleway – The League of Movable Type Calluna – Exljbris Mentone [...]

    Display Posts Outside the WordPress Loop

    Jul192010
    wordpress-posts

    There are two ways to pull content from outside the WordPress loop (the right way and the wrong way). One of these ways (the wrong way) is to use the query_posts() function to retrieve the content from outside the loop. However, WordPress does not recommend this method as it can interfere with the main loop, [...]

    Adding Google Analytics to WordPress

    Jul132010
    wordpress-analytics

    In this article I will be explaining how to add Google Analytics to your WordPress dashboard using the Google Analyticator plugin for WordPress. To start with download the Google Analyticator plugin from this link, when it has finished downloading unzip the file and copy the google-analyticator folder to your plugin directory (wp-content > plugins) and [...]

    Adding jQuery to WordPress

    Jul122010
    wordpress-jquery

    Each WordPress installation comes with jQuery built-in as it uses the Javascript library in it’s dashboard area. Meaning that you don’t have to actually upload it to your server and link to it from the header.php file of your theme, instead you can add the following line of code inside the section to call it [...]