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Create a WordPress Page with Posts and Custom Code
I have recently been creating a website where the client wanted a soundcloud player at the top of the page, with the posts from a certain category underneath within their wordpress powered site.. Obviously, I could create a sticky post, but that would be messy. Instead I created a WordPress Page template with the soundcloud [...]
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Making a WordPress Page
To make a page template in WordPress is quite simple: Create a new php page in your favorite text editor and at the top place: <?php /* Template Name: NameofNewTemplate */ ?> Done! On your new page you can do things such as including posts from a certain category, have a static html page or [...]
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Show WordPress Post Titles & Posts On Your Website
If you use WordPress for your blog, but your blog is not your home page, you may wish to display the latest blog posts on your homepage, or any other page for that matter, to entice people into your blog. WordPress Pages If you use WordPress for your whole site (pages and all) then this [...]
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Where Have I Been?
These last few weeks have been quiet on the blog front – so where have i been and what have I been doing? Tim Healey Mr DJ Tim Healey (www.myspace.com/djtimehealy) has asked be to re do the layouts for both his person myspace and his record label Surfer Rosa Records. I have been working hard [...]
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Hosting Emails With Google Apps
I wanted to set up Google Apps so that the mail for one of my clients used GMail rather than the SquirrelMail/Horde/Roundcube that comes with cPanel. I struggled to find a proper, helpful blog – so I thought I would make one! First off you need to have your own domain (obviously!) Unless you want [...]
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Hack a Music MySpace Profile
I was tasked to redesign a Music MySpace Profile Page – below is the outcome: Recently a client approached me and asked me to redesign their MySpace music page. I had recently helped someone redesign their personal page using the Profile 2.0 editor built into MySpace and found it very easy, so I thought the [...]
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The next step…
So you’ve got a brand new website that you want to promote? Recently I finished a website for Frag Records. Once completed they asked me for some hints and tips on how to get their name out there and how to be heard. Off the top of my head I came up with several promotional [...]
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I’m back…
Hello! Well, you may not have noticed I was gone from the social interweb, but I was for a little while. I was finishing off my degree in Music Production and the social world was distracting me. Twitter has become a very close friend of mine and I would spend hours trawling tweets and twoots, [...]
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Frag Records II
Frag Records has had a bit of an overhaul recently. I sat own with the guys the other day and we spent a few hours changing the design. The logo has been made bigger, grenade added, and a few links have been removed. The construction of the pages has changed dramatically. I found out the [...]
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Mac Apps
A friend of mine recently acquired a new Mac. Having mine for over a year now, he asked me what programs are essential to have. He’s not a web developer, so he just wanted to know about general use apps – that make using a Mac that much nicer. I immediately said a couple, but [...]
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