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Author: Sam Devol

Integrate PunBB into your WordPress site

The info in this post is pretty old but I’m leaving it here for reference, regardless… I wanted to add a forum to my WordPress blog but everything I came across did not integrate well (design/page continuity, etc.) or was

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Corporate Slave theme — Big update

Version .95 is out now, with a lot of tweaks done over several months… Incorporated some plugins into functions.php for convenience: Optimal Title Hot Dates removed ‘sociable’ Slimbox Added the Top Post functionality (for a full-width ‘featured’ post). Top Post

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www. Preference and samdevol.com

Since domains are often indexed differently (with and without the www prefix), I’m jumping on the no-www bandwagon. For more info visit Ease of use with WordPress influenced me to use Mark Jaquith’s Enforce www. Preference plugin (which works for

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About Me widget for WordPress – v1.0 (TinyMCE)

When I first started a WordPress blog I wanted to add some personal identification to the front page in an effort to promote validity/identity/what-evah. ‘Widgets’ were somewhat new to WP so I thought this was the approach for me. I

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No new Hesk integration tutorials

I added a ‘Help Desk’ tech support ‘ticket’ system some time ago (Hesk v0.93.1) and wrote a tutorial for it here. I don’t use it and haven’t had time to update to the latest version of Hesk (latest version of

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Integrating a Help Desk into WordPress in 15 minutes or less

I had an interest in adding a Help Desk to my site where clients could submit ‘tickets’ that would be tracked (and stored in a MySQL database, preferably alongside my current WordPress one) and when changed/updated both the client and

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About Me widget for WordPress – update

Working on 0.99 and and I decided to take the About Me widget to a level I had never intended. If you have used it before, you’re used to seeing this configuration interface: I had originally intended to design a

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WordPress 2.0.5 released

I was looking at this one as a real yawner. I consider myself almost obsessive about updating but I was going to take a pass on this one. Then, I saw this was fixed, and I thought wot the hell…

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WordPress Theme: missunderstood

This is the release of the missunderstood theme, originally designed by Will Rossiter. This is a dark theme, with a slightly girlish touch (that’s not pink!). See a live demo here. The sidebar is fixed (static), but the header and

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Received an email from site5.com tech support:

I received an email from site5.com’s tech support this morning, titled: Scheduled Maintenance Notification. Fighting back tears of joy and relief, I opened it and noted it warned of IMAP irregularities to be expected due to server upgrades. It contained

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