WordPress 2.7 Cookbook is no different, and though it’s more of a quick reference book, rather than one that you would traditionally read front-to-back, I still found myself devouring the pages within a day or so.

“With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You’ll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.”

Useful Tips I Picked Up

• Displaying a custom login form in your blog’s sidebar
• Using the CSS sliding doors technique within WordPress
• Creating an iPhone friendly version of your blog.
• Save time by using Worpress shortcodes
• Testing your blog’s security

Ultimately, books like this one deliver exactly what you’d expect. In need of front-to-back WordPress reference? This won’t do. However, if you think you’d enjoy reading over a 100 useful tips and “recipes,” I’d pick it up!

Free E-Books

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This is a complete CodeIgniter TextMate/E-Texteditor bundle. It includes shortcuts for every CodeIgniter helper function, and library included in CodeIgniter 1.7.2. Tab stops and default values are provided.

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Learn about everything you’ll need to build and maintain your Linux servers, and to deploy Web applications to them.

Whether you’re planning on running Linux at home, or on a leased Web Server, this book will walk you step-by-step through all of the common administration tasks, from managing traffic reporting to log-file rotation. This guide even includes step-by-step instructions on installing Linux (Fedora 4), Apache 2.0, PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1 on a home or office development server, so you can test all of your applications before rolling them out.

The number of WordPress functions can be dauntingly. Why not print a helpful cheat sheet for future reference? This one will do the trick!

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Working on a new eCommerce site? Need some beautiful icons to go along with it? These will do the trick!

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For intermediate JavaScript developers who want to take their JavaScript skills to the next level without sacrificing web accessibility or best practice.

If you’ve never written a line of JavaScript before, this probably isn’t the right book for you—some of the logic in the later chapters can get a little hairy. If you have only a small amount of experience with JavaScript, but are comfortable enough programming in another language such as PHP or Java, you’ll be just fine—SitePoint will hold your hand along the way, and all of the code is available for you to download and experiment with on your own. And if you’re an experienced JavaScript developer, they would be very, very surprised if you didn’t learn a thing or two. In fact, if you only learn a thing or two, you should contact them at SitePoint—they may have a book project for you to tackle!

A compilation of the best solutions provided to common PHP questions.

The PHP Anthology will save you time, and eliminate the frustration of completing PHP tasks, with a comprehensive collection of ready-to-use solutions. If you’re building web applications with PHP you’ll never let this book out of your site!

Installation Instructions

To add this theme, simply open “Preferences” (”Options” on PC) and click “Import” at the bottom. Then browse for your zip file — do not unzip — and click “okay!” That’s it.

* Note – At this point in time, I’ve only coded for HTML, PHP, and JavaScript. As I’m still “debugging”, so to speak, I’ll continue to update the downloadable source code. If you notice any quirks/inconsistencies in the coloring, please feel free to let me know, via the comments. … And if you like this theme, please send a link to your NetBeans buddies!

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“Here’s my jQuery lightbox clone, I did it because those available are either not close enough to the real lightbox (lacking animations, not supporting galleries, etc ,etc) or were just not suiting my need.”
-Stéphane Caron

License

CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0

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