Contact 7 is an awesome contact form generator for WordPress, hugely popular. However, as standard it doesn’t offer a shortcode solution so you can hard code it into your sidebar.php or header.php etc, so it displays on every page. But the solution is here: <?php echo do_shortcode(“”); ?> Paste the above code into your theme’s More »
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I’ve been struggling with MSN Messenger continually crashing. Messenger has been starting fine, and I get my Messenger icon in my toolbar – but when it comes to opening (right click – Open Messenger) it has been crashing every time. The problem (for me, at least) seemed to be the saved / linked live accounts More »
Modern versions of Mozilla Firefox have developed an irritating change in their usage of the Ctrl & F5 facility. Rather than a full refresh of the page and cache, this option now opens the same page in a new tab. Usefull? I don’t think so…… There is an add-on to combat this which can be More »
If you are trying to connect to your WordPress blog remotely using an iPhone, Android or other system via XML-RPC and it’s not happening, then this is for you. The standard xmlrpc.php script is quite commonly installed with many free blogs, including WordPress. Unfortunately, it is quite easy to exploit and often abused by amateur More »
Here is how I change the tag cloud. It is not difficult, but do take care. Locate the wp-includes folder. Find the category-template.php file. Save the category-template.php file to your computer, and back it up (as always) Open the category-template.php file in notepad, then find: wp_tag_cloud The number ’45′ in that code defines how many More »
WordPress 3.0 will be bringing with it many additional functionalities, including: Customisable menu’s Additional widget positioning Custom backgrounds Custom header images This in turn means new themes are needed to incorporate such functionalities. Do you see where this is going? I’m currently producing new widget ready WordPress 3.0 themes, some free & some premium themes More »