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in Wordpress by Paul // May 16

Creating WordPress Custom Page Templates

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In WordPress you start off with 2 default types of posts you have the standard posts and you also have pages.

For these types of posts WordPress will use different PHP files to display the content, the standard posts will use the single.php file and the pages will use the page.php file.

But the problem with this is that you can only use one file for your pages so you can’t have different page layouts or styles. This is why WordPress created the ability to create custom page templates, which allows developers to create as many different page templates as they want.
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in Wordpress by Paul // May 14

Creating WordPress Shortcodes For Envato Marketplace API

If your a regular reader here then you will know every month I display a list of Free items that you can get from the Envato marketplace.

The Envato marketplace is a set of different websites which are all dedicated to sell premium standard files on all types of files you will need for design and development.

You can get WordPress themes, code scripts, graphics, photos and much more.

In this tutorial we are going to look at how to use the API to get public information and how to turn this into a WordPress plugin to display item information on your Website. We are going to team up the API with your account name to easily earn money from the affiliate account by referring new users to the marketplace.
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in Wordpress by Paul // May 9

How To Create A Pinterest Scroll To Top Button WordPress Plugin

In a previous tutorial you would of learnt how you can use jQuery to create a scroll to top button on your website so when you click the button it will scroll you back to the top of the page.

This is a really useful feature for websites which have a large scrolling page or infinite scrolling. The types of websites that will need this feature are content heavy website for example blogs. There are loads of blogs with massive pages because of all the great content on there. It would be so useful to have a scroll to top button on them…as most blogs are on WordPress I’ve decided to take the previous scroll to top tutorial and turn this into a WordPress plugin.

Why Pinterest?

in Articles by Paul // May 5

Life After The Google Penguin Update

If you own a website or work on a website then you may of heard about all the changes that has taken place in the Google algorithm over the last couple of weeks.

I don’t normally post about SEO changes on here but I feel that the latest Google Penguin update is a big game changer to SEO and thought I had to find out more about it.

The month of April 2012 the SEO game changed, people trying to play with the Google SEO results have finally been shot down the rankings. People who rely on black hat link build techniques have been shot down, some from page 1 in Google to page 6-7+. Who goes to page 6 in Google? No one.

These websites have seen a massive amount of traffic loss, some websites losing up to 80% of Google traffic, this can be thousands of visitors a day…thousands.

Most of these businesses that rely on this traffic for them to function correct, there are companies going out of business all because of this update.

So…what do you think of the new Google Penguin update?

April Google Updates

Before we get into the Google Penguin update I think it’s important to say that this update is different to the Google panda updates which have been taken place over the past year. The purpose of Panda is to return the highest quality content, this works with penguin to bring back the best results for your keyword.

There was a silent Google panda update on the 19th of April which cost some people about 30% of organic traffic from Google.

Google Penguin update was released on the 24th April which cost people the remaining 50% of organic traffic.

There is an easy way to check if you have been affected by one or both of these updates, just look at your Google analytics page and put in a date range of the start of April to the start of May. With this range you can see what your results were before and after the update. If your search engine traffic stayed the same on the 20th April then you were not affected by the Panda 3.5 update, but if you lost traffic on the 25th April then you were affected by the Penguin update.

Google Penguin

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First of all the name…Google are calling all their updates after black and white animals and will probably end up with a white animal to show white hat techniques win.
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in jQuery by Paul // May 5

Create A Real E-Book With Turn.js

In today’s tutorial we are going to see how we can create a “real” ebook by using the jQuery plugin turn.js. Using this jQuery plugin you can create a real looking turn of pages to create a magazine looking web page.

View the demo to see what you can create with Turn.js.

Demo

What Is Turn.js

Turn.js is a plugin for jQuery that adds a beautiful transition similar to real pages in a book or magazine. It works in all modern browsers including touch devices.
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in Wordpress by Paul // May 3

How To Register Menus In WordPress

In a previous snippet we learnt How To Register A Sidebar In WordPress in this snippet we are going to learn how we can easily create custom menus and add them anywhere on your WordPress blog.

Create A New WordPress Menu

WordPress allows you to create your own custom menus from pages or category items. Using your theme settings you can define where certain menus can appear. For example you can create a menu for all your categories and display this at the top of your page.
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in Freebies by Paul // May 1

Free Premium Files For May 2012

The start of the month always brings free files for us all, and May is no different the Envato marketplace again are offering so great files you can use in all parts of your Web project.

Envato is a web marketplace where you can get premium files for different areas of your website. My favourite marketplaces is the script marketplace CodeCanyon and the Blog theme marketplace ThemeForest.

Here are the files which you can get for free this month.

Elitepack CSS3 Display Screens

37 sales at the normal price of $6, but you can get it for free.

Elitepack CSS3 Display Screens are a collection of web elements that are designed with pure CSS3 technology meaning that no images have been used apart from the background images.

This particular pack is the CSS3 display screens which are a nice modern way of showcasing your application, website or portfolio gallery using CSS3 powered display ‘vectors’. It includes an iphone 4, imac screen, macbook pro, macbook air, and an ipad 2. All the models also come with black and white variations.

Get Your Free Copy

WordPress Wave Portfolio + Blog

in Wordpress by Paul // April 23

How To Display Author Bio With WordPress

WordPress is a CMS that allows your website to work with multiple authors. When your website has multiple authors it’s good to have the author bio at the end of the posts so that the reader can get to know the author.

In this tutorial we are going to learn how easy this is to do in WordPress and how we can customise the default WordPress Author info to provide even more information about WordPress Authors.

in Wordpress by Paul // April 18

How To Create A Google Plus Badge WordPress Widget

Google+ is now the third biggest social network behind Facebook and Twitter, this means more and more people are starting to use the network more.

If you are using Google+ then you want to addvertise that you are on Google+.
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