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Gravity Form with Placeholder Input Values

Gravity Forms Placeholder Text that Works with IE

Surprisingly Gravity Forms hasn’t implemented the placeholder feature for Gravity Forms input elements. The placeholder allows you to show placeholder text inside the field instead of using field labels to create more concise looking forms like this: On June 22, 2011, Jorge Pedret, a freelance web developer, came up with a solution to the Gravity [...]

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Moving WordPress from Subdirectory to Root – FAQ

If you followed the instructions in my post “How do I move WordPress from a subdirectory to the root directory?” and you encountered any issues, please read the following list of frequently encountered issues. Please comment below if you continue to have problems or write to me via my Contact form if you need personal [...]

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Customizing Studio Press Child Themes

Q: I’ve just started a blog. I’m new at it. The blog is set up using the Genesis theme Lexicon. I would like tags to show under my posts, but for some reason they don’t. Maybe this particular theme doesn’t enable it. How can I address this? I am not a coder so is there [...]

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TimThumb WordPress Security Vulnerability

Zero Day Vulnerability in Many WordPress Themes TimThumb is a popular image resizing utility used on millions of sites worldwide. It is inherently vulnerable because it allows hackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code in your timthumb cache directory. To prevent this from happening, it is urgent that you either update your TimThumb script [...]

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Create an Image Gallery in WordPress Using a Lightbox Plugin

WordPress supports image galleries without having to use any plugins. However, using a couple simple plugins will take your WordPress gallery from nice to wow! 1 – Install Cleaner Gallery Plugin The Cleaner Gallery plugin creates valid HTML code (which the default WordPress gallery does not) and ingrates with many lightbox-type plugins. (Lightbox displays a [...]

25 Top WordPress Plugins You Should Know About

Clean and simple list of the plugins I use most often on my WordPress sites and some that I’ve included just because they’re too cool to not mention.

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  • Gravity Forms Placeholder Text that Works with IE
  • Moving WordPress from Subdirectory to Root – FAQ
  • Customizing Studio Press Child Themes
  • TimThumb WordPress Security Vulnerability
  • Create an Image Gallery in WordPress Using a Lightbox Plugin

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