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Lessons Learned Running a Small Business in 2011

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As 2012 begins, I want to look back over the past year to see what can be learnt from it

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How to Make a Floating Share Box

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This is one of the most common questions I get asked; how do you make a floating box with share links

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Validate Forms in WordPress with jQuery

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This article will teach you how to add validation to your WordPress comment forms

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Load Next WordPress Posts With AJAX

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Today, we’re going to replace the standard “Older Posts” links on your blog. Our plugin will create a button to instantly load the next page of posts

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User Friendly Short Codes with TinyMCE

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WordPress short codes are everywhere: in practically every theme and many, many plugins. They are extremely useful and provide huge amounts of extra functionality. With all of their greatness, however, there is one major problem with them: they are not very user friendly

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8 Tips to Secure a WordPress Site

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Security is one of those topics that comes up time and time again. You hear the advice, you know you should do it

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How to Get Facebook, Twitter, and RSS Counts {WP}

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You will have seen blogs showcase their Twitter, Facebook, and RSS counts with typography. With these numbers in plain text, you can style them into your website

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Add a jQuery DatePicker to Event Posts {WP}

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In previous posts, we set up an events system for WordPress

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How to Use the Twitter API in WordPress

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There are plenty of Twitter plugins for WordPress. Why would we want to make our own script?

Well, most of the plugins come with a lot of fluff you just don’t need. Ours will be simple and efficient

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Make a Template for Taxonomies & Post Type Archives

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On Monday, we set up a custom post type in WordPress for listing events
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Events List With Custom Post Types and Taxonomies

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A few weeks back, we put together a way of adding events to WordPress
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Best Way to Have Quality Comments Only?

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I love reading the comments on each article I post. If you leave one, you’re near guaranteed I’ll reply to you directly

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Add Useful Links to WordPress Admin Bar

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WordPress 3.1 introduced the admin bar, which adds admin options

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Web Dev Books I’ve Been Reading

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I’ve stacked up a fair few design, development and marketing/business books in the past few months. In this post, I want to share with you the ones I’ve enjoyed most

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An Updated WordPress Events List

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Around this time last year, I wrote a post
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