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Author: Reuben Gunday

Bookshelf Mini-Update

It is our desire to make Bookshelf easier to manage with every update. This small update has been made to avoid confusions caused by technical terminology. For new users, adding custom fields for the product price has been little difficult as the custom fields box is hidden by default. To make life easier for both

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WordPress 3.2 “Gershwin”

It is time for another upgrade to your WordPress site. Like previous releases, the newly released version comes with exciting new features. The new features are: Distraction free writing mode: Inspired by the good old plain paper writing! Now you have a better editor with a bigger & simpler view. Write, edit and post with

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Adding visual editor to WordPress comments box

Read part 2 for adding visual editor to WordPress comments box using new editor API available in version  3.3 Writing HTML tags in comments is not easy for everyone. You can add visual editor/TinyMCE in comments box so that your site visitors can easily format text in bold, italic, etc. You can add visual editor

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Relative dates for posts and comments in WordPress

Calendar dates are nice but relative dates (i.e 1 day ago) can be more attractive. You may have noticed relative dates in Twitter and Facebook status updates. You can also display relative dates for posts and comments without using a WordPress plugin. In your Theme’s functions.php file, add the following snippet: The above snippet can

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Combat Comments Bot

We were getting many comments by bots on our site. The comments are directly posted to our web site without visiting our site. The bots are programmed to comment in this way. To deal with this issue, I have developed Combat comments bot plugin. How to use? After installing and activating the plugin, go to

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Bookshelf 2.0.3

We have released Bookshelf 2.0.3 on May 11 2011. There are no major changes in the plugin except for Troubleshooting feature. The troubleshooting feature will help Bookshelf users to find common set up errors. How to run Troubleshooting? Go to Bookshelf >> Troubleshoot. Enter the Post/Page ID in the text field. Click “Run test”. Results

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Don’t panic, it’s the Admin Bar

One of the new features in WordPress 3.1 is the admin bar. While this feature is useful to many users (mostly multi-site users) but for some users (mostly buddypress users) it can be annoying. For those who do not want the admin bar You have two choices to disable the admin bar: Disabling admin bar

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Tip of the day: Embedding videos in WordPress

I have seen several premium WordPress themes providing extra shortcodes for embedding Youtube and Vimeo videos. Most of the theme authors do not know that this function is already present in WordPress core. This function is powered by oEmbed. Using oEmbed you can avoid the process of copying and pasting HTML from the site hosting

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Using Bookshelf 2.0

Before using Bookshelf, please make sure that you have setup the plugin correctly. To ensure the plugin is setup correctly: Go to Bookshelf->Settings Enter your paypal email address Select your currency type and save. Instructions for using Bookshelf: Create or Edit a post (or page) In the PDF file box, click “Choose file” button and

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