Because WordPress is a publishing platform, there are options for content visibility that most beginners overlook. Have you ever thought about creating a blog post that you don’t want everyone to read? Maybe just for family members or close friends? Or maybe just very special group of your users? Well, in this post we will [...]

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Do you ever wanted to be able to automatically add a search field to WP 3.0+ navigation menus? If yes, just have a look to today’s recipe, you’ll probably love it! Open your functions.php file, and paste the following code. The search field will be displayed once you saved the file.

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Twitter has transformed the way people communicate with each other. It has now become extremely popular across the web with millions of users exchanging billions of tweets each day. Almost every blog today has a retweet button for allowing its readers to share the articles on twitter.

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I wanted to use widgets in the footer of my WordPress theme but my wordpress theme didn’t come with a footer-sidebar by default. I didn’t really wanted to change the theme just because of that. So I hacked the wordpress theme to introduce footer-sidebars. If you are looking for a tutorial that explains how you [...]

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One of my readers asked me the following question: “How can I run a JavaScript within a WordPress post?” In this short post I have explained how I use Javascript in my WordPress posts. Adding javascript in WordPress post is really simple. You just have to switch to the HTML view in the editor and [...]

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If you want to show your Facebook Statuses and you are hosting on a WordPress.com blog that restricts you from installing plugins, try this. The following method make use of Facebook status feed and WordPress RSS widget. It will also work for self-host WordPress blogs, but you guys who self-host can use better plugins for [...]

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I saw someone using windows media player on vista the other day and it inspired me to make a website menu. So here are the steps I went through to make my media player style menu. Click Here for Large Image Start off with a canvas with the size of 800X200px and make the background [...]

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