Daily Inspiration #952

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Display & Style Related Posts For Your WordPress Site

Display & Style Related Posts For Your WordPress Site

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30+ WordPress Video Tutorials

30+ WordPress Video Tutorials

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How To Backup Your WordPress Website

Anyone who has had their website hacked or inadvertently changed something they shouldn’t have on their websites database, will know the importance of backing up your live websites on a regular basis. The steps involved in backing up and restoring a WordPress database using PHPMyAdmin is no different from any… read more

How to Build a Sliding One Page Portfolio with jQuery

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In this tutorial, I will show you how to create an interesting jQuery-powered one-page site. One page sites are usually a great way to show your prospective clients how good you are at what you do. This one is no exception.

Demo & Source Files

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How To Create A Simple 404 Error Page For WordPress Themes

How To Create A Simple 404 Error Page For WordPress Themes

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The Developer’s Guide To Conflict-Free JavaScript And CSS In WordPress

Imagine you’re playing the latest hash-tag game on Twitter when you see this friendly tweet:

You might want to check your #WP site. It includes two copies of jQuery. Nothing’s broken, but loading time will be slower.

You check your source code, and sure enough you see this:

<script src=”/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.6.1″ type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script src=”/wp-content/plugins/some-plugin/jquery.js”></script>

What Went… read more

Do You Care About SEO? How About $80k in New Sales?

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, chances are you’ve heard of it. You keep seeing articles about SEO, have probably even read a few of those articles, and it sure looks like everyone else is doing it.

But why should you care about SEO? Easy: SEO can… read more

What’s new for web designers – Oct 2011

The October edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, boilerplates, some JavaScript tools and resources, useful documents for working with clients, and a number of great new fonts.

Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful… read more

30 Fresh Minimal WordPress Themes (2011 Edition)

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Minimal is the timeless web design trend of basic styling a web page and stripping out all non-essential elements allowing the reader to focus solely on the content with absolutely no distractions. Achieving the balance between content and minimal design is not easy, but in… read more

Clean: A Responsive and Minimal WordPress Theme

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Last month we released our first responsive WordPress theme at Theme Trust, and it was well received. Since viewing of the web is no longer limited to only desktops and laptops, it’s clear that responsive design will soon be the norm. That’s why we’ve decided to… read more

35 Orange WordPress Sites Inspiration

35 Orange WordPress Sites Inspiration

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Intro To TGM Plugin Activation Class For WordPress

Intro To TGM Plugin Activation Class For WordPress

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No, Facebook Is Not Ruining Your Grades [STUDY]

The latest of several studies to look into the relationship between Facebook use and low grades has a counterintuitive twist — some kinds of Facebook use are correlated with higher GPAs.

“Facebook use in and of itself is not detrimental to academic outcome,” says study author Reynol Junco, a professor at… read more

Remove WordPress Version Number

Remove WordPress Version Number

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How to Sync A Local & Remote WordPress Blog Using Version Control

How to Sync A Local & Remote WordPress Blog Using Version Control

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Essential jQuery Plugin Patterns

I occasionally write about implementing design patterns in JavaScript. They’re an excellent way of building upon proven approaches to solving common development problems, and I think there’s a lot of benefit to using them. But while well-known JavaScript patterns are useful, another side of development could benefit from its own… read more

8 Simple Steps to Set Yourself Up on Social Media

Freelancers new to flying solo can be overwhelmed by the mass of marketing opportunities on the web. And while social media is a great way to promote your business, it can be enormously time consuming.

Like any marketing activity, it takes time to build up your brand, but there… read more

Power Over Others: It’s Not What You Think

When I started my career, oddly enough as an illustrator, I asked a famous artists why there were so many nasty peers in the business and why professionals of his level were so friendly and helpful. He smiled and said, “there’s all the room at the top and precious little… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.107)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)

If you would like to receive our daily updates you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebookor by subscribing to our RSS feed.

CSS3… read more

WordPress Theme of the Week: Purity

WordPress Theme of the Week: Purity

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Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 2, October

Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated staff and volunteers… read more

Steve Jobs, Always Inspiring

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Last Wednesday October 05, 2011, we lost an icon, one of the biggest geniuses of our times, Steve Jobs. Jobs was not only an icon, he was an idol, an eternal source of inspiration, a master. From Apple fan boys and girls to those who insisted… read more

Linkswitch #89, Web Presence, Pricing War, Writing Problems

Take Control of Your Web Presence with Ten Top Tips

Social media is a brilliant way to build your brand, which in turn grows your client base. But it can suck hours out of your busy day. And time is the one resource that we freelancers crave.

With a simple routine,… read more

Free Premium WordPress Theme: Iridiumous

Free Premium WordPress Theme: Iridiumous

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MacSnapper: Step by Step Documentation for Any Project

The one part about a project that always gets neglected is documentation – it may that be tutorials, user guides, project notes or manuals. It’s time consuming and to do it well, you’ll need screen shots with annotations and much more. Shrinking away from this task often results in poor… read more

WordPress Essentials: The Definitive Guide To WordPress Hooks

If you’re into WordPress development, you can’t ignore hooks for long before you have to delve into them head on. Modifying WordPress core files is a big no-no, so whenever you want to change existing functionality or create new functionality, you will have to turn to hooks.

In this article, I… read more

Daily Inspiration #947

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Sites of the Week #174

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Palantir and 2ndfloor. Also we’re featuring the new and responsive design of The Boston Globe, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we… read more

Mega Bundle from VectorPack.net Only $29! ($545 Value)

VectorPack.net has prepared a great Mega Bundle for designers. This is a limited time offer, available until the 12th of October. At such a great value you will not want to miss the opportunity! In this pack you will receive 650 high quality design elements and save more than $500!

This… read more

Effective Ways to Promote Your Online Business

Freelancing is on a high, and more and more professionals are taking this route. Executive-level full-time professionals are not the only ones contemplating it; personnel at all levels and from various industries want a taste of freelancing. The lure of “becoming one’s own boss” and deciding one’s own schedule is… read more

Markup-Service Competition: $700 Worth of Services Up For Grabs

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This weeks fantastic giveaway will come in useful for web designers and web developers who are short on time and want to convert their designs into high quality, semantic and valid markup. Markup-Service is giving away free services to two lucky winners! First prize is $400… read more

WDL Premium: deFacto – News Magazine WordPress Theme

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Today for our premium members, we’ve got a new premium WordPress theme from ThemeShift. deFacto is a powerful news magazine WordPress theme. Through custom widgets, page templates and post layout options you can easily tailor the theme to your special needs with no coding skills.

If you’re… read more

21 Best WordPress eCommerce Themes

21 Best WordPress eCommerce Themes

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15 Free WordPress Themes for Designers

15 Free WordPress Themes for Designers

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Thalliumity Free WordPress Theme

Thalliumity Free WordPress Theme

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88 Photography-Junkie Links From The Last 7 Days

Toad Hollow Photography has been busy searching the internet all week for the best links on tutorials, photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone.  A very active week in the world of photography, this list contains some great work from some truly great people.  We hope you enjoy checking… read more

Free WordPress Theme: Njobsboard a Job Board Theme

Free WordPress Theme: Njobsboard a Job Board Theme

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Daily Inspiration #946

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Free Premium WordPress Theme: Tiberion

Free Premium WordPress Theme: Tiberion

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OctoPink Free WordPress Theme

OctoPink Free WordPress Theme

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Keeping Your Email Private While Sharing it Online

In the real world, we carry identification cards, drivers licenses, passports, and more to make sure people know who we say we are. No matter where you live, you’ve likely got one official ID that covers almost anything you’d need verified. Even just your name and date of birth is… read more

10 Free Android Apps To Boost Your Productivity With

Having a smartphone in your pocket has somewhat become a style statement, but apart from its appearance and style appeal, it allows you to perform all tasks that you would perform with your laptop or computer. This is the main reason of smartphone popularity.

For the designing fraternity, there are plentiful… read more

OctoPink WordPress Theme

OctoPink WordPress Theme

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20 htaccess hacks to prevent your WordPress site from hacking

20 htaccess hacks to prevent your WordPress site from hacking

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10 CMSes for Easier Image Management

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While WordPress (using the numerous portfolio themes and plugins) has become a very popular choice for creating photo blogs or online portfolios, sometimes you may just need a dedicated CMS in order to create a web gallery. In this article, we shall take a look at… read more

Daily Inspiration #944

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Interview with Mike Austin (Human Nature 84)

Today we will have the pleasure to interview one of the best vector illustrator ever: Mike Austin also known as Human Nature 84. Mike have impressed everyone on the digital art community with his new approach on making vector graphics and being a high defensor of this media. Hope you… read more

How To Create Custom Post Meta Boxes In WordPress

What seems like one of the most complicated bits of functionality in WordPress is adding meta boxes to the post editing screen. This complexity only grows as more and more tutorials are written on the process with weird loops and arrays. Even meta box “frameworks” have been developed…. read more

Take Control of Your Web Presence with Ten Top Tips

Social media is a brilliant way to build your brand, which in turn grows your client base. But it can suck hours out of your busy day. And time is the one resource that we freelancers crave.

Struggling to manage your Linkedin connections, group discussions, guest blogging and website… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.106)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)

If you would like to receive our daily updates you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebookor by subscribing to our RSS feed.

Scalable and… read more

how to create documentary cartoons

how to create documentary cartoons

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Free Stuff: 210 Grunge Brushes from VectorPack.net – Comment to Win

In honor of VectorPack.net‘s Mega Design Bundle 2, I’ve got 5 copies of 210 Grunge brushes to give away! For this contest, I get to give away part of the brushes from that bundle to 5 lucky winners. Make sure to read the rules, and good luck!

Contest Rules:

All you have… read more

WordPress Theme of The Week: Flashlight

WordPress Theme of The Week: Flashlight

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Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 1, October

Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated staff and volunteers… read more

Apple Might Only Launch iPhone 4S, Facebook Timelines Launch Delayed: Today’s Top Stories

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today.

Apple Might Only Launch iPhone 4S

New evidence and speculation suggests that perhaps only the… read more

Designers Know Your Code: Web Design Tutorials

As almost any web designer worth their salt, and a large percentage of web developers will tell you, to be fully considered a web designer you have to have some background in code. Not to the depth that full on developers must, but it really is unfair to the rest… read more

A comparison of leading WordPress theme frameworks

If you’re going to design a WordPress site, there are a few ways you can start. Many designers start with an HTML template that they then add WordPress code to.

Others start with the basic WordPress code and design around that.

But others begin with a starter theme or framework, which is… read more

Klout Quietly Adds WordPress to Klout Scores

When Klout announced in mid-September that Blogger and Tumblr would play a role in determining your Klout score, WordPress users immediately asked, “What about us?”

Klout responded by quietly adding WordPress to its scoring system, which already factors in 11 other services: Blogger, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Google+, Instagram, Last.fm, LinkedIn, Tumblr,… read more

Quick Tip: Creating WordPress Shortcodes

Quick Tip: Creating WordPress Shortcodes

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10 Useful Html5 WordPress Framework

10 Useful Html5 WordPress Framework

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17 WordPress Online Store Themes

17 WordPress Online Store Themes

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20 funny and nice ideas for your new Facebook timeline

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WordPress 101 Video Training Part 1: The Dashboard

View engaging conference lectures, interesting how to discussions, and high quality freelance advice via video here on FreelanceSwitch.

This week we look at WP101 Video Training Part 1: The Dashboard by Shawn Hesketh. In this video he reviews the WordPress Dashboard, in the backend administration area. This is part… read more

Beautiful Paper Artworks Come to Life

Paper is more than just a medium that you can write on. To some, it is an essential tool in creating sculptures big and small! Albeit flimsy, there are several techniques in making outstanding artworks from paper, cards or its fiber counterpart. One popular technique is the origami (ori means… read more

50 Best Portfolio WordPress Themes in 2011 – Part 2/3

50 Best Portfolio WordPress Themes in 2011 – Part 2/3

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MyCinema Free WordPress Theme

MyCinema Free WordPress Theme

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How to: Configure Facebook Insights for Your WordPress Blog

How to: Configure Facebook Insights for Your WordPress Blog

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Daily Inspiration #941

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Sites of the Week #173

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Warchild and Rabiscaria. Also we’re featuring the beautiful Fuzzco portfolio, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more than happy… read more

WordPress Essentials: How To Create A WordPress Plugin

WordPress plugins are PHP scripts that alter your website. The changes could be anything from the simplest tweak in the header to a more drastic makeover (such as changing how log-ins work, triggering emails to be sent, and much more).

Whereas themes modify the look of your website, plugins change how… read more

5 WordPress Mobile Plugins to Create Mobile Theme

5 WordPress Mobile Plugins to Create Mobile Theme

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73 Cool Links for Photography Junkies

Toad Hollow Photography has been looking all over the internet this week for some of the best tutorials, photography and blogs to share with everyone here.  It’s been an active and exciting week, and the list contains some truly incredible works from some of the best photographers.  We truly hope… read more

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iPhoneSales

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Daily Inspiration #940

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

The Art of using Illustrations in Web Design

There are many of elements that go into enhancing a web design project. Typography, new technologies and UX design patterns are only some of them. One the most powerful is illustrations and vector graphics. They can be handy in a broad range of applications. Remember the cliché, a picture is… read more

A Showcase of Landing Pages Designed for Conversion

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The best landing pages are the ones that have been built with one specific goal in mind. Whether it’s to encourage users to sign up, encourage purchases or convince people to buy a product, the landing page can make or break a sale.

It’s often not enough… read more

Daily Inspiration #939

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Developing WordPress Locally With MAMP

Local development refers to the process of building a website or Web application from the comfort of a virtual server, and not needing to be connected to the Internet in order to run PHP and MySQL or even to test a contact form. One of the most annoying parts of… read more

You’re Pricing It Wrong: Software Pricing Demystified

Pricing your own product is always a tricky proposition, and the more critical the price is to your product’s success, the more difficult it is to set. It’s easy to look at another product and say how much you would be willing to pay for it, but how can you… read more

MediaWiki: The Definitive Wiki Engine

By now most everyone online has heard of Wikipedia; the online encyclopedia that boasts millions of articles in dozens of languages. It revolutionised the way content was delivered online and popularised the word ‘Wiki‘. According to Google, it is the 6th most popular website in the world.

What you may not… read more

6 Ways Brands Can Earn More Exposure on Tumblr

Shane Snow is co-founder of Contently.com, an “agile publishing” platform for brands and freelance journalists.

With 29 million blogs (more than WordPress at last count), and at least as many millions of posts every day, Tumblr is a force of nature in the Internet ecosystem that cannot be ignored. That massive… read more

Daily Inspiration #938

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

How to Create a Responsive Portfolio Site with WordPress and Semantic.gs

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I doubt that I need to explain to WDL readers what responsive design is, or why it’s important. Suffice it to say that it is a big part of the future of our industry. Fortunately, making responsive layouts is easier than it was when when we… read more

Free Premium WordPress Theme: Ubert TumBlog Theme

Free Premium WordPress Theme: Ubert TumBlog Theme

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StarPoint Free WordPress Theme

StarPoint Free WordPress Theme

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Sideshow: WordPress Theme of the Week

Sideshow: WordPress Theme of the Week

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Tumblr Secures $85 Million in Funding Amid Big Growth in Pageviews

Microblogging platform Tumblr has secured $85 million in funding, the company announced Monday, adding that it has seen its pageviews increase greatly this year.

Aside from the funding round led by Greylock Partners and Insight Venture Partners, the company shared impressive new stats: Tumblr’s pageviews per month this year have gone… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 4, September

Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated staff and volunteers… read more

20 High Quality, Extraordinary & Free Web PSD Templates

No matter who you are or what your business may be, you will always want your website design to stand out. Having an extraordinary website allows you to stay on the mind of most of your visitors and can help translate how unique your product or service is to someone.

The… read more

How to become a prolific blogger

Whether you are a web design freelancer trying to win new work, an entrepreneur promoting your web app, or a corporate drone looking to enhance your career, you will need a blog. In fact the personal blog has almost become a requirement for any web professional.

The problem is, they are… read more

Laborista Free Premium WordPress Theme

Laborista Free Premium WordPress Theme

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Get Related Posts For WordPress Post

Get Related Posts For WordPress Post

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Daily Inspiration #936

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

15 Free HTML5 and CSS Templates

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Ready-made HTML5 templates are currently one of the most sought after resources within the web design community. They not only offer a quick and easy-to-edit solution for building modern websites, they also offer a fantastic route to explore and understand HTML5s syntax.

All of the themes below… read more

How to Secure WordPress Part 2 – The Plugins

How to Secure WordPress Part 2 – The Plugins

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Daily Inspiration #935

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Sites of the Week #172

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Mightybell and 10k Apart. Also we’re featuring the beautiful Kitchen Sink Studios portfolio, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be… read more

A Roundup of Valuable Facebook Tools

Not long ago we had a post featuring some valuable Twitter tools, and we received requests to do the same kind of post for Facebook. In the interest of giving our readers what they want, and the community content that is useful, this post was born. Today we are presenting… read more

Disable All RSS Feeds On Your WordPress Blog

Disable All RSS Feeds On Your WordPress Blog

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