HTML5 Boilerplate

by Craig Butcher on April 27, 2012 in Wordpress Plugins with No comments

This is a great little plugin that I have found during my morning coffee break.

It is based on the HTML5 Boilerplate and is highly recommended to use.

From the screenshot, you will get to select a lot of options:

The quick(!) lowdown from the FAQ about this plugin what you can choose.

  • Use HTML5 DOCTYPE
  • Add IE Conditional Tags
  • Move XFN profile from to ?
  • Use HTML5 Character-Encoding Tag
  • Kill IE6 Image Toolbar
  • Force IE-edge / Google Chrome
  • Add Google Verification
  • Force iThings to Use Full Zoom
  • Add Favicon
  • Add iThing Favicon
  • Add IE-only CSS file
  • Add Modernizr JS
  • Add Respond JS
  • Add jQuery JS
  • Which jQuery version
  • Put jQuery in or at end of ?
  • Add jQuery Plug-ins JS
  • Add Site-specific JS
  • Add Google Analytics
  • Use HTML5 Search <input /> Type
  • Add Search placeholder Text
  • Add Cache Buster to CSS & JS Files

It may be an overkill at first and it does help to speed up WordPress development. Little plugins like this goes a long way for us developers!

[Download: HTML5 Boilerplate]

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Forge – Your new WordPress builder

by Craig Butcher on April 20, 2012 in Wordpress Themes with No comments

If you are the kind of person who like to create WordPress theme from scratch I would recommend Forge. It is a brilliantly constructed toolkit that lives in the command line to bootstrap and develop your website using SASS, LESS and CoffeeScript.

The use of this software is utterly simple and require a bit of command line knowledge.

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Permanently removing Link URL in Add Media

by Craig Butcher on April 20, 2012 in Wordpress Help with No comments

If you are like me who don’t use the Link URL in ‘Add Media’. There is a chance you are getting fed up of having to click on ‘None’ to remove this. What if I told you there is a way round this?

Log into your WordPress and go to this address:

http://yourwebsite.com/wp-admin/options.php

This is the hidden side of WordPress that they don’t want to tell you about as it is strictly for people who knows what they are doing (we don’t really). Scroll down to image_default_link_type and change from file to none.

Now you no longer have to deal with this issue.

Warning: We are not responsible if anything goes wrong. Always, always, always back up before doing anything drastic!

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Speeding up WordPress websites

by Craig Butcher on April 20, 2012 in Wordpress Plugins with No comments

If you are finding your current WordPress setup running slow even when it is running on a modernly fast server, you will need a caching plugin to serve your pages faster. W3 Total Cache is the tool for the job.

What is caching in general? It is designed to improve web server performance while keeping your websites up when it is under heavy load from the likes of Reddit, Hackers News, Digg, retweets links and many more.

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Removing category in permalinks

by Craig Butcher on April 19, 2012 in Wordpress Plugins with No comments

Having /category/ in your permalinks is a pain and it looks like an eye sore in the URL bar.

WP No Category Base is the tool for the job and allows WordPress to write meaningful URLs to appear in search engines.

That’s all folks. You may go back to what you are doing!

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Markdown

by Craig Butcher on April 19, 2012 in Wordpress Plugins with No comments

What is it? In short,

“Markdown” is two things: a plain text markup syntax, and a software tool that converts the plain text markup to HTML for publishing on the web.

If you are a web writer and don’t want to get interrupted in the flow of writing, Markdown is for you. Ever since I have switched to it for writing, it just makes sense.

How does it work? Allow me to explain…

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37 Examples of Striking Brochures to Attract Attention

by Paul Mayne on October 28, 2011 in Print Design with No comments

There’s a reason why the brochure design should look different, unique, or even bizarre, both in terms of coloring, typography, shape, size, purpose is to seek attention. For any business a well-designed brochure printing will be a good marketing tool as well.

We must remember, your brochures can act as a first impression of the company to many people, because it is necessary to ensure it gives the right message and reflects a positive image of the brand will be promoted. We’ve all read and flip through hundreds or even thousands of brochures and I’m sure most of them are very similar to a rectangle or like a book, rambling dense with text, and very boring.

Back again on the above points, although the contents of the brochure you’re great and quality, but if your brochure designed in correct way or just too boring, is not attractive, no one was interested to see let alone read it, it means that your brochure failed. So an attractive design so in order can steal people’s attention is very important in addition the right content, to produce attractive brochure that you also need to find good printing company for your best brochures.

So lets take a look the brochures below, hope you can get inspirations!

Alaris Brochure

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A Booking System WordPress Plugin

by Paul Mayne on September 12, 2011 in Wordpress Plugins with No comments
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I stumbled across this plugin recently, and it’s brilliant. Does exactly what it says on the tin. If you ever need a booking system WordPress plugin then take a look at this one: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/booking/ Continue reading →

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Need Custom Fields Within Your WordPress Page/Post?

by Paul Mayne on July 22, 2011 in Wordpress Plugins with No comments
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This is a very quick post about a plugin I came across recently. I needed to have custom fields within a blog post so I could draw out certain data to display the post on a map in it’s correct location. Continue reading →

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Multiple templates for posts

by Alex Thomas on June 5, 2011 in Wordpress Help, Wordpress Plugins with No comments
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I was developing a site for a client who wanted to show the post in a different template depending on it’s category. We all know that you can easily have different templates for pages using the following code at the top of your page template: Continue reading →

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