Auto slide for Twenty Eleven Featured Posts Slider

I’m a great fan of the amazingly versatile but still solid default WordPress theme that has been served with all WordPress packages since version 3.2 released on July 4, 2011: Twenty Eleven. Many of the sites I developed since then use a child theme based on Twenty Eleven and some of them use as front page a page that has been dressed up with the Showcase Template. But… there is just one thing missing! Read More »

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Youtube videos with strange colours

Recently, I started noticing strange colours in Youtube videos. But strangely, this did not occur on all videos. Read More »

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Your donations donated

A substantial part of the contributions I have received over the past year (2011) for my WordPress plugins Easy FancyBox, Skype Online Status and XML Sitemap Feed has just been donated to the Avaaz project Smuggle hope into Syria. While the UN is failing again, Avaaz has the only network that is both smuggling medical equipment and journalists in and images and information out of Syria.

In light of our common history, global awareness and ‘The Grand Scheme of Things,’ I view current developments in the Middle East to be of much greater importance than our Western financial concerns. So I ask you all to please consider joining me and many (at the point of writing this: almost 9 thousand) others in the support for the struggle for freedom of those that are facing the wrath of their own government army.

Thanks!

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Domain Renewal Group deception

Example bill Domain Renewal Group domain name registration You might (yearly) receive this Domain Name Renewal Service letter that looks like a bill for the renewal of your domain name registration.

Sender is the Domain Renewal Group from New York or London. The letter says your domain name is up for renewal and if you do not act quickly, you risk losing the domain. Subsequently, you are offered the choice between renewal for 1, 2 or 5 year terms and you are asked to fill out your credit card number, e-mail address and signature. There is even a return envelope included to make it all as easy as possible.

But… Read More »

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WordPress plugin files called settings.php and options.php spell trouble

Today, I ran in to a most peculiar issue involving a plugin called Easy Nivo Slider running on a WordPress Multi-Site installation. Let me try to explain what happened. Read More »

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