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Adding Gravity Form shortcode Anywhere in WordPress Template

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WordPress shortcodes are great for adding great features easily and efficiently using plugins into your posts and pages. The problem with shortcodes is that they don’t work when added outside the loop. Shortcodes are usally added in the content text area for added functionality. For instance, if yuo wanted to add Gravity Form into your [...]

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jQuery Testimonials Slider with Navigation and Effects using Cycle Plugin – Multiple Sliders on Same Page

Sometime back I put together a Text Testimonials Slider with Navigation using jQuery and Cycle Plugi[...]

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[AS3] Load External swf into Main Flash Movie with Play, Pause, Forward, Rewind, Load and Unload Buttons

Sometime back I had posted several tutorials explaining how to load external swf file into main flas[...]

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Enable JScrollPane Scrolling for iPad and iPhone

jScrollPane is a cross-browser jQuery plugin which converts a browser’s default scrollbars int[...]

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Set Google.com the Default Search Engine for Chrome instead of Country specific

Sometime back, I started using Chrome extensively and One of things that I could not fix for some ti[...]

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Get Permalink, Title and Excerpt for Any Post Anywhere Outside the Loop in WordPress

To get a permalink and Post Title outside of the standard WordPress post loop, you have to use the g[...]

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Facebook Platform – Secure Page Tab URL will be required on October 1, 2011.

As I write this post on 12 Oct, The FBML apps I manage are all working fine even without SSL certifi[...]

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Facebook ID Data Type Storage in BIGINT vs VARCHAR

While working on legacy Facebook applications recently migrating them to the latest Graph API, I fix[...]

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WordPress Custom Post Type Listing by Alphabets with Alphabetical Navigation

wordpress-mediaUsually, in a WordPress blog or website, we do not need to list posts or pages by alphabetical order[...]

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Text Slider for Testimonials with Navigation – JavaScript Widget using jQuery Cycle Plugin

The jQuery Cycle Plugin is a slideshow plugin that supports many different types of transition effec[...]

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Joomla Error – jtablesession::Store Failed DB function failed with error number 145

This error occurs due to the table jtablesession crashing, and solution is quite simple. Just login [...]

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Custom Page Templates Not Showing Up in Page Attributes Drop Down in WordPress Admin Panel

While working on a WordPress website, I created a new custom template for Custom Post Type records b[...]

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Resolve function.getimagesize: failed to open stream: 403 Forbidden Error

If you are getting following error trying to get image size on your own server, you need to provide [...]

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Adding & Customizing Back Buttons in jQuery Mobile Framework

jQuery Mobile Framework has a feature to automatically create and append “back” buttons [...]

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Resolve Mobile Safari Greyed out File Field Issue in iPhone/iPod/iPad by using Picup App to upload images

Sometime back I developed a mobile app, where image was to be submitted with the entry form in some [...]

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Facebook Graph API 3.1 – Requesting Extended Permissions for your Application

Facebook has added the app’s permissions to the user object, which can easily be accessed usin[...]

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Include & Display Custom Post Type Records under Categories Posts Listing in WordPress

Using WordPress, if you create Custom Post Type and while adding records you also post them under st[...]

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What is Facebook Third Party ID and How to Get it using Graph API

To get the Facebook Third Party ID for your app Facebook user, try the following code using Graph AP[...]

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WordPress Custom Post Types – Best Plugin for the Job and How to Set it Up

WordPress 3.x comes with the ability to create Custom Post Types and which makes it very simple for [...]

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New Topic Email Notifications to Every Member in Mingle Forum WordPress Plugin

Mingle Forum is very useful WordPress Plugin that allows you to quickly put a Forum on your WordPres[...]

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Enable Auto Update for WordPress Plugins and Core Files without FTP, FTPS or SSH2

When using the auto update feature to update wordpress to the newest version or to update your plugi[...]

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Automatic Subscription for New Topic or Posting Comment to Get Email Notifications in Mingle Forum WordPress Plugin

Mingle Forum is very useful WordPress Plugin that allows you to quickly put a Forum on your WordPres[...]

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Installing libphp2 for PHP over Joyent SmartMachine Server

On a Joyent server, I needed to install the libphp2 for PHP on SmartMachine so that WordPress can us[...]

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Get URL Hash Parameters & Values using JavaScript for PHP $_REQUEST

We all know that php can read the url values of query string variables using $_REQUEST but foi yuo n[...]

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Resolve WordPress wp-admin/edit.php Page 500 & 404 Error for Admin Posts Link

If you get WordPress page not found error or 500 internal server error for opening admin/edit.php Ad[...]

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