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Creating Custom WordPress ShortCodes

One awesome feature of WordPress is the ability to add in and use custom shortcodes in your posts to customize how your content looks. Shortcodes are bb-code style tags that you put right in your post, for example: [gallery] In this post I will give you a quick tutorial on how to create your own...

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Quick Tip – SSHFS (And Other Fuse File Systems) On Lion & Snow Leopard (32 and 64 bit!)

One of the biggest issues I have with Mac OS X is the lack of built-in FUSE filesystem support. FUSE lets you easily add extra filesystems such as SSHFS, which is a great way to securely connect to remote servers. Unfortunately a once great project, MacFuse, is now dead, and only supported by nasty patches...

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5 Commonly Overlooked Web Application Security Holes And Bad Practices

As you probably already know, web application security has been an increasingly hot topic over the past decade. From simple SQL injections to full-on website defacings, many websites, big or small, have been affected by lackluster security. If you use a prebuilt system such as WordPress the biggest thing you can do is update the...

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A New Plugin To Make WordPress Break Out Of Frames!

Happy labor day everyone! Since apparently I can’t seem to go a day without doing work, I decided to put the finishing touches on a quick’n’dirty wordpress plugin I wrote for a few wordpress sites/blogs I maintain and release it. Nusuni Frame Buster is a simple plugin that will make your blog either break out...

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WordPress Tip: Modify The Default Excerpt Ellipsis ([...])

One little annoyance with WordPress is the way it display post excerpts. Instead of doing the logical thing and doing a regular ellipsis at the end of the paragraph, it tries to get fancy with an ugly... Fortunately for us it is really easy to switch: Open your theme’s functions.php file (create one if...

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