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Is Google Screwing Up?

Lee hodson — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:50:30 +0000

No one can escape Google’s relentless tweaks to catch spam and build search result accuracy. No one! Not even WPMU and JournalXtra. Panda, Penguin, Parrot… Okay, I made the last one up but the point is that Google is screwing up. When Penguin was released, WPMU’s traffic dropped from over 8,000 daily visits to under [...]

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HowTo: Add New Widgets to Genesis Child Themes

Lee hodson — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:08:57 +0000

Easier to do than adding a new custom menu to a Genesis child theme. Just a few lines of code in the child theme’s functions.php file is all you need to add a new widget area anywhere within your WordPress site. Genesis uses ‘hooks’ to make it easy to latch code into the theme. A [...]

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HowTo: Browser and OS Detection with PHP

Lee hodson — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:52:21 +0000

A very quick PHP script for detecting browser/device and OS agent strings from the HTTP User Agent variable. This is not 100% reliable because surfers and bots sometimes hide or falsify the user agent string so please use with caution. Browser and OS Detection Script This script detects whether the OS/Device is Linux, MacOS, iPad, [...]

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HowTo: Add New Menus to Genesis Themes

Lee hodson — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:19:22 +0000

Adding additional navigation menus to Genesis themes is easy. This method creates custom navigation menus that you can customize as you would any other WordPress custom menu by visiting Appearance > Menus. We use a two-step method: Create a custom nav file Register the custom nav file in your child theme’s functions.php file By repeating [...]

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Is Skype + Video + Linux Always a Hassle?

Lee hodson — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:35:18 +0000

Every time I upgrade my favorite Linux distro. I end up without Skype video support. Every time!!! It’s unbelievable. Why can’t Skype make an app that provides out-of-the-box video support for Kubuntu. Anyway, because I keep forgetting how to get my webcam to work with Skype on Linux, I thought I’d write about it here [...]

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