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WordPress Personas For Firefox

What WordPress is to Blogging, Firefox is to browsing, so what happens when we can get both of them to get together? WordPress personas for Firefox WordPress has released a new set of Personas for Firefox themed around, well WordPress, which you can install and use on the browser. The personas were designed by Chad Pugh and are based on Vintage Press and Inkwell

WordPress Plugin Releases for 03/11

New Plugins WP-ZoomImage With CopyProtect You can pop up an image or thumbnail by just clicking on it and it will disappear when you click it again Titled Comments Hikari Titled Comments enables each comment to have a title, so that commentators can give a subject meaning to their comments. Scroll to Top Plugin Integrate a jQuerry scroll to top control in WordPress manually Tweet my Script This plugin watches your Twitter RSS Feed for user-defined “launch codes” to trigger user-defined script URLs. Dojo Skew Gallery plugin for Wordpress This is a plugin to create a skew photo gallery utilising Dojo Toolkit Ajax.

Forms On Mobile Devices: Modern Solutions

Mobile forms tend to have significantly more constraints than their desktop cousins: screens are smaller; connections are slower; text entry is trickier; the list goes on. So, limiting the number of forms in your mobile applications and websites is generally a good idea. When you do want input from users on mobile devices, radio buttons, checkboxes, select menus and lists tend to work much better than open text fields.

Obama Theme, Republican Candidate

Today Geoff Fox tipped me off to something ironic: the website for Republican congressional candidate Daria Novak is using a WordPress theme I designed back in 2008 for Obama supporters. What’s interesting is that soon after Geoff made the observation , Novak’s web team removed all references to Obama from the CSS and templates, even changing the name of the /theme/ directory. Keep in mind, Novak is a candidate who previously said : Obama is the most dangerous official in our history, in my opinion.

Uncovering Toy Cameras and Polaroid Vintage Effects (With Photoshop Tutorials)

Since its emergence, the digital photography market has gradually supplanted the traditional one. APN and digital SLR cameras entered our lives, and some people announced the death of silver-based images. This is not all lie, and yet old-fashioned images have been particularly popular in the past few years

Dribbble, Meritocracy and the Open Web

Last month I was lucky to be drafted into Dribbble by a fellow designer. It’s a private beta site with a lot of buzz

30 Free Fonts For Creative Projects

Guest Post by Fonts2U We all know picking the right font is important when working on your creative projects.

WordPress tip: Get rid of unused post revisions

Just run the following query on your WordPress database, and all revisions (As well as meta associated with it) will be deleted from your database. Of course, do not forget to make a backup of your database before running the code. DELETE a,b,c FROM wp_posts a WHERE a.post_type = ‘revision’ LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships b ON (a.ID = b.object_id) LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta c ON (a.ID = c.post_id); If you’d like to see more SQL queries for WordPress, make sure to read this post .

Entering The Wonderful World of Geo Location

I thought I could not be out-geeked.

Manage Comments From Your Windows or Linux Desktop

Comments form a very integral part of any blog to generate communication and spark discussions. As a WordPress blog user, managing comments and replying to them is very easy, however, what if you can manage and reply to comments from your desktop? WP Comments Notifier is a open source application written in QT/C++ for Linux and Windows, which will allow you to manage new comments and reply to them from your desktop