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The FITC Toronto 2009 officially ended yesterday. Congrats to the award winners. My overall experience was pretty good. I’ve attended FITC in the past four years and they are getting better and better. This year, I’ve learned a lot of new things about Flash, particularly the multitouch Flash content and mobile Flash. In this post, I’m going to share my thoughts on some of the presentations that I’ve attended.
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Original post by Nick La
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The FITC Toronto 2009 officially ended yesterday. Congrats to the award winners. My overall experience was pretty good. I’ve attended FITC in the past four years and they are getting better and better. This year, I’ve learned a lot of new things about Flash, particularly the multitouch Flash content and mobile Flash. In this post, I’m going to share my thoughts on some of the presentations that I’ve attended.
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Original post by Nick La
I wrote previously on securing a fresh WordPress install. Today, I’ll cover several WordPress plugins that can be used with fresh or existing WordPress installations to enhance security. I’m not going to cover recovering a hacked site, or exploit scanning tools like Exploit Scanner or WordPress Antivirus in this tutorial.
As before, I’ll emphasize a few things:
1. Your WordPress security is only as good as the security on your local computer. If you’re not running good antivirus and anti-malware software or are using an insecure wireless connection, none of this will matter.
2. Likewise, if you’re not keeping your WordPress install updated, none of this will matter.
3. I should have at least mentioned this in my previous security article but didn’t: your WordPress security is also only as good as your web server’s security. Since the audience for these tutorials is beginners, I’m going to assume that you don’t have a lot […]
Original post by Klint Finley
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New Plugins
Incomment Referrer
This plugin quite simply lets you know where the users entered your site when they leave a comment. A lot of people who joined the do-follow movement are listed on sites which are a target for comment spammers. To those who suffer comment spam can now find out the page they come from, and block accordingly.
WP Hide Pages
This plugin hides selected pages from menus which created with wp_list_pages function. Essentially it adds exclude parameter to wp_list_pages function but it’s so easy now.
Pages to Page
Create the contents of Recent Comments, Pages, Categories, Archives, Recent Posts and Calendar which are usually shown in the sidebar and insert them onto a post or page.
eletro widgets
It allows yout to use WordPress widgets to set up your home page (or any page) in your blog. You can configure and drag & drop widgets around right in the front end. Please watch the video […]
Original post by Perurry
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Last week I talked about Cross-Browser CSS Gradient. Today I’m going to show you how to put the CSS gradient feature in a good practical use. Check out my demo to see a set of gradient buttons that I have created with just CSS (no image or Javascript). The buttons are scalable based on the font-size. The button size can be easily adjusted by changing the padding and font-size values. The best part about this method is it can be applied to any HTML element such as div, span, p, a, button, input, etc. (more…)
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Original post by Nick La
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I emphasized the importance of backing up in my basic security tutorial, but I discovered all of the backup tutorials I found were out of date. So here’s a tutorial on backing up your WordPress database with the terrific WP-DB-Backup plugin. The great thing about this plugin is that you can have it automatically send you backups by e-mail that you can save both to your local computer and optionally store in your Gmail or other web mail account and an additional off-site backup.
This tutorial assumes you already know how to install plugins.
This tutorial should be forward-compatible with WordPress 3.0
1. Install WP-DB-Backup by Austin Matzko
2. Mouse over Tools so that the down arrow appears
3. Click the down arrow
4. Click Backup
5. You’ll see something like this:
On the left are the default database tables included with WordPress. All of these are included every time you backup. The only thing you have to […]
Original post by Klint Finley
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Reflections
Perfect for photofolio blogs or websites using WordPress. Support threaded comments and pretty simple to use. Page in Malay
Homage
Homage is a two-column layout WordPress theme, with a right-hand sidebar. Plus a static pages menu, a replaceable logo area and paged- and threaded- comments.
K9
K2 inspired theme for WordPress. Key features include: widgets support, custom header, threaded comments and post thumbnails.
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Original post by Perurry
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Guest Post by Fonts2U
Being a specific form of art, typography has always been coherent with the general progress of art and cultural growth of humanity. This is why the history of western typography reflects the development of art in Europe to a considerable degree. The epoch of Roman Empire, Renaissance, Baroque, and the art of Industrialization period – we can track the traces of each stage of art development in the design of particular typefaces, born during a respective period of time. In fact, the whole history of western typography has always been about the development of new trends, and the revival of ancient techniques of writing and lettering designs.
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Original post by Nick La
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New Plugins
Hikari Hooks Troubleshooter
Hikari Hooks Troubleshooter creates a draggable window with informations about all functions hooked to Wordpress actions and filters, and lists all conditional tags.
Hikari Unicornified Gravatars
Hikari Unicornified Gravatars converts avatars from people that don’t have a Gravatar, into customized unicorns.
Tal.ki Embeddable Forums
Add a forum, message board, or discussion board to your blog. This plugin will add a Forums page to your blog and allow your members to start their own conversations and topics on your site.
Eletro Widgets
It allows yout to use WordPress widgets to set up your home page (or any page) in your blog. You can configure and drag & drop widgets around right in the front end. Please watch the video for further details
HTML Emails
Converts the default fugly, plain-text email notifications into fully customizable, sweet lookin’ HTML emails.
ArcadePress
Allows you to turn any Wordpress site into a full arcade site, including flash game uploads, categories, and more.
TwitPic-It
As […]
Original post by Perurry
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Within this review, I will provide an objective view on the video-hosting service called VideoPress (owned by Automattic).
Now I will be one of the first to admit that I am somewhat of an Automattic fanboi. I love WordPress, and use several of Automattic’s other services. However, even I was skeptical of what I considered a too-good-to-be-true video-hosting service.
A Little Background
I have been hosting my videos on YouTube for quite a while now. I especially liked their new HD feature and the ability for my screencast software to export directly to the service.
I didn’t (and still, really don’t) care that the YouTube player is branded and shows ads. It worked, and worked well, and that’s really all I cared about it. And best of all, it was free.
However, I ran into a roadblock with some of my videos. The ten-minute time-limit was really […]
Original post by Ronald Huereca
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