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WordPress – Contact 7 plugin shortcode

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(“”);

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Rogers/Yahoo SMTP server extremely slow causing big delay

Google is full of posts & discussions of others talking about how the Yahoo smtp server (smtp.mail.yahoo.com) is slow and causing a delay, so I thought I’d join in. My Canadian ISP is Rogers, Ontario, who use the Yahoo smtp server, and until now I’ve had little

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MSN Windows Live Messenger crashes when opening main window

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

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Ctrl F5 – Firefox opening a new tab, not refreshing clearing cache

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

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WordPress 2.0 iPhone app

I am currently testing my new WordPress iPhone app, and adding this blog post using my phone. So far the app appears very simple to use, and supports multiple WordPress installations, which means I can update, amend and add content to clients WordPress sites while on the

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