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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]

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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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!

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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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 →

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 →

I’m currently working on a project that requires having 2 featured images within a WordPress page that sits outside of the standard editing area that is defined in the template. This is a pretty big website so I didn’t particularly want to create a template for each page. Continue reading →