Create A Skewed Title With CSS and Jquery

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Posted on June 26th, 2011 by Kyle G

Web typography sometimes seems limiting, but using jQuery combined with CSS 3 will you the ability to create something that breaks from the norm. The effect is to use jQuery and a plugin call Letting JS to wrap elements (letters) with a unique class and target each with unique styling. The styling is CSS 3; [...]

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Creating The Author Tag Cloud

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Posted on June 14th, 2011 by Kyle G

I just released this sites first plugin: Author Tag Cloud, which create a tag cloud by an author containing the tags he or she used on their posts. Beyond that it creates a new permalink structure to drill down into content and find post based on author and tag. It also creates a template tag [...]

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Adding Google Fonts to WordPress

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Posted on June 12th, 2011 by Kyle G

If you haven’t seen the great API Google has out for fonts, the chances are when you do you will want to start using it. The Google Font API allows you to add new and great fonts to your web pages and frees you from the limited choices you had before. This site uses many [...]

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Adding Rewrite Rules to WordPress

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Posted on June 5th, 2011 by Kyle G

Changing WordPress URL structures is covered in many places with just the basics, but you don’t really get the behind the scenes. The common tutorials and discussion is on how to create a pretty permalink structure that will increase your site’s SEO. That is changing the default permalink structure from http://www.yoursite.com/?p=1 to http://www.yoursite.com/hello-world. But as [...]

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Create A WordPress Meta Box With Jquery UI Datepicker

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Posted on June 4th, 2011 by Kyle G

Adding datepickers is a great way to improve your a WordPress Plugin you are building. This post will go through everything you will need to do to add a Jquery UI Datepicker to your custom meta box. What you will need to know before you move on Plugin Basics such as registering a plugin and [...]

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