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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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The future of WordPress is 2.1

And it looks good! As of this post it’s around 50% done (I prefer to think of that as half-full, thankyouverymuch). I have been testing the alpha and love it. Often when answering questions about WP I find myself writing

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WordPress theme: Corporate Slave

Here is a newsletter-style 2-column with sidebar theme for WordPress which allows some control over which categories are displayed in each column. I included the WordPress Theme Toolkit by Ozh for user-friendliness. This theme is a modified version of Corporate

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WordPress Tools and Resources

Over the past few months I have come across an enormous amount of resources and tools for every aspect of working with WordPress. This is another one of the benefits of Open Source (a large number of contributors), however the

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WordPress Troubleshooting: Finished installation and it doesn’t work!

This article was inspired by the fact that WordPress downloads recently passed the 1,000,000 mark. There are some very common problems that pop-up frequently on the WordPress Support Forums that can stop an installation dead in it’s tracks. This is

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Guide to using the WordPress Support Forums

Which of the following is true? The WordPress Support Forums can be a wonderful resource, a gold mine of wisdom and technical expertise, with quick, salient responses that get me right back on track… The WordPress Support Forums can be

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Quick look at WordPress issues in June:

Shortstat: There's an issue with shortstat 1.3 and WordPress 2.0.x. Try this fix: I was having the same trouble with logging not occurring. is_admin_page()* was returning true for non-admin pages. I just commented that line out, and it’s working for

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