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Looking for a file uploading solution to integrate on a WordPress admin I stumbled upon the incredible jQuery file upload plugin Uploadify. It’s a complete solution and by all means easy to implement with a large amount of options.

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Tags: javascript, plugin

WordPress 3.0 will separately identify the Drop-ins that you add to your installation. WordPress Drop-ins are custom PHP files related to several WordPress core files such as advanced-cache.php or object-cache.php that you can load on WP-Content to override the core file with new functionality.

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Tags: plugin

There are quite a bunch of frameworks for WordPress. Hybrid, Thematic and Carrington to name the most well known. Most of them could be used right away as themes, but the fact of the inclusion of many new hooks and filters makes them suitable for re-utilization of the theme. The Elastic theme was born like a WordPress framework but recently its author started calling it a theme engine. Why? read on.
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Tags: wordpress themes

Surfing the web, in one of those endless clicks on related pages, stumbled upon this illustrator. Her name is Chelsea Greene Lewyta and she tagged herself on her Behance portfolio as “illustration, children illustration, children, women, girls, tea, forest, trees, animals, nature”.

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Tags: illustration, showcase

One of the most exciting features in the upcoming WordPress 3.0, the custom Menus, has been updated and it now looks much more polished and integrated into the Admin back end of WordPress. You can now add a page, a post, media, tags, categories and even custom links with just a couple of clicks. There’s also a widget for you to drop your menu wherever you want.

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Tags: usability

Since Easter is close I thought you might need a couple of free icons to ornate your site, a cute easter bunny and an easter egg.

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Tags: icons, resources

Many designers keep designing between each freelance work just for the sake of it. Sometimes great stuff comes from the design we create during these gaps and not few of them end up getting their bytes covered with dust. Instead of loosing forever that precious time why don’t we sell them online? We will review a series of sites that allow you to deliver your digital goods on your own site along with hosted solutions that allows you to market the itehostingms on your site while leaving the payment process to a third party.
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Tags: e-commerce, resources, showcase, web application

One interesting new feature coming up in WordPress 3.0 will be the Menu Management as we discussed earlier. This feature will allow any user to configure on the WP Admin a new menu including items such as pages, categories and links. Now, as much as I love this new feature, since it will make non-tech savvy users life much easier, the design is inconsistent with the rest of the WP Admin interface. I’ve given it a shot and designed how it could look to follow the standard styling of the WP Admin interface.
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Tags: open source

Basecamp might be the most commonly used platform for project management. However, since its inception, many other solutions have been created offering almost all the features available on Basecamp at a very low price or free at all in both hosted or self-hosted versions. From Gantt charts to iPhone apps to track your projects, these project managers have it all.

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Tags: project management, web application

It is said that ads inserted on the content perform better than those on sidebars or footers. Let’s see a quick and easy technique for WordPress to display ads every two posts.

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Tags: development, tutorials