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  • How To Create Dashboard Menu Icons for WordPress Custom Post Types

    Using an image sprite, we show you how to create dashboard menu icons for your custom post types that change on hover, just like the the core WP icons.

  • Using the WordPress Post ID Outside of The Loop

    WordPress provides access to post and page data within “the loop”, but what if you need to get this information outside of the loop?

  • How to Stop WordPress Asking for FTP details to Upgrade Plugins

    Why WordPress asks for FTP information and how you can stop typing in your details in each time you perform a plugin or core upgrade.

  • Sign up for the Google+ developer API

    Google releases a mailing list sign-up to notify developers when the Google+ API is released.

  • How to Add and Remove WP Admin Bar Links

    Customizing the new WP Admin Bar by adding new links and removing existing ones. Here’s the code and and some examples.

  • How to remove the WordPress Generator Meta Tag

    The WordPress generator meta tag displays your website’s WordPress version for anyone to see. This can be a security risk for your website but it is easy to remove. Here’s how to remove the WordPress generator meta tag from your WordPress installation.

  • Scheduling MySQL Backups on Windows 7

    Many people have had problems scheduling database backups uwing the MySQL Administrator tool. We fixed the issue and here’s how.

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