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Smart Backup Plugin
Smart Backup is a complete WordPress solution for database backup and restore...


Ambient Occlusion Theme
Ambient Occlusion is a clean and warm theme, with a brown/cocoa colour...



WordPress Theme: Cyanide
This theme has originally been created for an offshore client. The theme...




WordPress Theme: Clear Apple
Clear Apple is a clean magazine theme, no thumbnails for posts, wide...


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Photoshop Project: Decorative Frame
Download: One of my recent projects was to create a cozy, decorative frame for a jewelry site. The outcome is visible here. Painting it in Photoshop was easy, as I tried to be original. The final version has a grunge layer applied to the frame, and some noise applied to the content image.
Amazon S3 Guide
Here is a quick tip about finding your AWS Security Credentials to access your Amazon AWS S3 simple storage to create buckets. (Buckets are folders to store your files such as images, videos in Amazon Simple Storage). Step 1: Go to Amazon Web Services web site and click on the Account tab and Security Credentials Link as shown in the...
WordPress Jobs Plugin: Premium Jobbin
From a rushed release to a refined plugin! Get Jobbin now and turn your WordPress installation into a real job board. The new 0.2.2 version brings an application form and many UI tweaks for better usage and general accessibility. Two years ago, I needed a job plugin, and there was only one free plugin for WordPress. I did the job...
WordPress and phpMyAdmin: Database Management
EDIT: WordPress.org plugin usage statistics shows the following chart: All users are strongly encouraged to update to the latest version (1.2.7 at the moment of writing this post). The code is cleaner, there is more information regarding MySQL and the phpMyAdmin codebase gets cleaned up and updated for speed, performance and HTML validity. Running inside an IFRAME inside WordPress, it...
PHP/MySQL Date and Time Notes
I’ve always sucked at date/time calculations using PHP or MySQL. This changed a while ago when I broke the ice with a Facebook-style function for calculating time diferrence in a friendly way. Today, I had to calculate past dates using 2 separate date and time columns. MySQL uses NOW() to output a date format such as "2011-03-10 14:30:00". My date...
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Recently I had to use PHP to display a score value such as “3″ padded as “03″. There’s a tiny PHP function that does just this. $myvalue = '3'; str_pad((int) $myvalue,2,'0',STR_PAD_LEFT) While working with strings, such as $myvalue, I had to convert it to integer using the (int) operator so I can make further calculations with my initial value. The...
Smart Backup is a complete WordPress solution for database backup and restore operations. Create backups of your complete WordPress installation, files only, or database only. Backups can be restored with one click. Options for the scheduler include timeouts (for tight PHP servers), backup types (files, .sql, complete) and notification emails for backup success or failure. The backup manager allows for...
Once in a while we run into specially crafted sites, be it graphics, code or content. This week we have 5 links to awesome web sites: http://www.letterheadfonts.com/ – A great collection of vintage ads, fonts and graphics. The combination of colours is warm, merry and inspiring. http://www.ermark.ro/live/adora/02-index.html – A beautifully crafted jQuery and CSS theme. Works for WordPress, too. http://pmbennett.net/...
Blog Tycoon has several news and upcoming projects for February regarding its content, its products and future plans. Lots of interesting projects and updates are live this month for all the big players out there. Latest news and rumours tell that XHTML 2 is dead, and HTML 5 is the new HTML 4. And it’s the way to go. We...
Disconnect yourself with some interesting short comics from Little-gamers.com: