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Peng Zhang on September 26th, 2011
I know image maps are supposed to be deprecated html entities. But sometimes, you have to work with what is provided and does not have the time to enhance and modify the template. In such a HTML template, there is an image map and from one of its AREA tags, I want to play a [...]
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Without a close look, the two plugins can be easily confused with each other due to the name. WP Maintenance Mode has much nicer looking themes, a higher rating and a lot bigger number of downloads. But when I turned on the maintenance mode, people logged in as editors can still access the admin area [...]
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Truth be told. One day it just dawned on me that WordPress does not use session at all, none. How does it know whether a user is an anonymous visitor or someone who has previously logged in? It uses cookies. If I remember correctly, it uses a number of cookies: one for the admin backend, [...]
If anybody is wondering why their themes and widgets menu disappear from under the Appearance admin area even if you are logged in as an administrator, this happened to me yesterday. To save you some time, I figured and confirmed that this can be caused by turning on the option to show the Appearance -> [...]
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I had felt the need to implement a sidebar in the header of an existing theme, and therefore, embarked on an investigation of how to implement a sidebar or widget zone for a theme. I found useful information in a few places: http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgets_API http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgetizing_Themes and http://www.wordimpressed.com/wordpress/easily-register-widget-zone/ I came to the understanding that: register_sidebar(), register_sidebars(), unregister_sidebar() [...]
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