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Genesis: Move Navigation to Top 22 Aug 2013 | 05:09 pm
Here’s a little code snippet to move the primary navigation in the Geneses theme to the top of your pages: Of course, you could use this to hook the primary navigation in anywhere on the page. You’d ...
WordPress Plugins Are Dead 12 Jul 2013 | 07:54 pm
iOS and Android have forever changed what people expect from their technology. For the most part, however, that wave of expectations hasn’t hit the WordPress community. Sure, WordPress itself functio...
Should I Use mysqli_real_escape_string With Prepared Statements in PHP? 6 Jun 2013 | 10:12 pm
Graham recently asked me: Do I still need to used mysqli_real_escape_string when used prepared statements in PHP? The simple answer is no. The way it used to work is that you would take form input ...
How Being Lazy Can Help You Stop Procrastinating 30 May 2013 | 07:15 pm
Listen to the Full 30-Minute Podcast Version Let me give you an example: Yesterday, I was feeling completely burnt out. For the last couple weeks, I had been pushing real hard on a number of project...
How to Make More Money in Web Design 19 May 2013 | 06:33 pm
Listen to the Full 30-Minute Podcast Version Are You Losing Money Trying to Be Everything to Everybody? I have 100% been guilty of this. When I first started marketing my services, I had a shotgun b...
How Wealthy Developers REALLY Succeed 5 Apr 2013 | 01:08 am
You know, I’ve spent a lot of time teaching coders technical skills. How to upload files using PHP, how to create website templates, how to hack, twist and mold WordPress to your will, and so on. In ...
How NOT to Hire a Freelance Developer 2 Apr 2013 | 10:50 pm
I’ve seen a rash of really bad job postings on Elance lately and I thought I’d step in to offer a little (ahem) constructive criticism. Here’s the thing. Bad job postings are bad for everybody, becau...
How to Monetize Your Content in 2014 27 Mar 2013 | 08:43 pm
What will the future of content monetization look like? Are we forever stuck with an ad-based, privacy-encroaching business model (ala Facebook)? Does the failure of NewsCorp’s “The Daily” mean fee-ba...
How to Add a Login/Logout Link to WordPress Menus 26 Mar 2013 | 07:12 pm
In my last post, I talked about how to add a custom meta box with a custom link to WordPress navigation menus. Several times, I mentioned how I needed to add a specific class to that link for WishList...
How to Add a Fully Functional Custom Meta Box to WordPress Navigation Menus 22 Mar 2013 | 07:44 pm
When I created WishList Login 2.0, I wanted to an easy way for users to add a dynamic login/logout link to their navigation menus. As simple as it sounds, it’s not something you can do natively in Wor...
