Inserting shortcode into ANY template…

Do you have a great plugin that you use all of the time, but wish you could put it in a very custom location, maybe on the index.php or footer.php page of your template, instead of just a Post or Page? Luckily there is a very simple way to do this… Instead of just using [your shortcode info], you will want to go to your location of your template, and change it to <?php echo do_shortcode( [your shortcode info] ) ?>   Sounds easily enough, huh?   Let’s look at an example I recently used was for the wpaudio plugin. I wanted to put near the bottom of just my...

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Fall Savings – Over $100 today!

If you are a current client and refer a design/website paying client to us between now and December 31, 2010: You will get $100 credit for future purchases… If you refer a web-hosting client to us between now and December 31, 2010: You will get $30 credit for future purchases…

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Saving Facebook Videos To Your Desktop

Do you want to save videos from Facebook onto your desktop and watch later? Here’s how to do that: Mozilla Firefox: Step 1 = Watch the video all the way through Step 2 = Navigate to C:\ >> Documents and Settings >> USER >> Local Settings >> Application Data >> Mozilla >> Firefox >> Profiles Step 3 = Copy the file that is looks newest and probably large, and paste in another location, ex : desktop, my documents etc Step 4 = Rename that file to something with .flv extension, ex : Facebook.flv Step 5 = Play this video using FLV player...

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YouTube Custom Backgrounds

Are you bored with the default YouTube Background? The default YouTube profile background is fairly boring and plain, even with their custom design options its not quite unique. With the following tutorial we will learn how to create a great looking Web 2.0 YouTube background design. Step #1: Open Photoshop and create a new image that is about 2000 x 1900, and 72 dpi is fine. Step #2: Create a new layer and put two boxes in the middle of the image, at the top and bottom. In my example, I made the boxes Black and a size of 960 x 669 (width x height). Step #3: Make the foreground color...

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3D Peeling Sticker Effect Tutorial

The Popular 3-d Peeling Sticker Effect Start with your object being on a layer by itself. For my example, I am going to make a “Euro-Style” Sticker… Add a background layer by holding [Ctrl] + [Alt] and clicking on the New Layer button at the bottom of the Layers Palette [F7]. Press [D] to select the default colors and press [Ctrl + Backspace] to fill with white. Double-click on your object’s layer in the area to the right of the name. This will bring up the Layer Style dialog box. Click on [Stroke] at the bottom of the list. Remember: Set the Stroke size to something...

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WordPress Image Resizing Issue

If you are hosted with Hostgator, you may have a problem with the automatic thumbnail generation feature that many WordPress themes provide. To solve this: 1. Login to your Hostgator control panel and contact Live Chat Support. 2. Ask the support technician to white list your thumbnail generation file for mod_security . You will need to give your file name and path.  The file name mostly will be timthumb.php . You can find this file inside the WordPress theme folder. An example file path wp-content/themes/theme_name/timthumb.php This is a known issue with Hostgator’s WordPress hosting and...

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