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Community Funded

So I have been working on a project that has become my main focus. I am really proud to be the developer for www.communityfunded.com. We currently have a splash page up that allows the public to register as a user.

Here is a brief summary of the project:

Community Funded will connect people, ideas and resources in historic new ways, empowering our communities and promoting “grass-roots economic recovery.” Anything’s possible when it’s Community Funded.

Please sign up to be a part of something really special.

Here is a link to our Facebook page with some more info and response from the public: https://www.facebook.com/CommunityFunded

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Keep Users Based On Role Out of WP-ADMIN

Here is a quick and dirty way to keep your users out of the WP-ADMIN area.  I have not found a good way to redirect a user from the wp-login.php page to a custom page and not profile.php. (anyone knows, please let me know : > ). I needed this as i had a front end system for users to manage their profiles.  That part needed to look like the regular theme and not like the admin area.

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My First VideoPress Video

so this is embarrassing, but worthy of a first video post

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Collapsable Categories in Post Editor

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So you have a ton of categories and there are a lot of child categories at the list and the post editor has become unruly? In order to change a posts’ category or to add it to a new one the list is unmanageable. Here is a jQuery code snippet that you can use to make the categories collapsable. It removes the label functionality. You cannot click on the name to select the item’s checkbox, but it now allows you to click on the name to expand the categories.

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Resize Image on the Fly to Fit in a Square Box

This simple image class will allow you to get an image from your server to dynamically resize it and center it top/bottom and left/right in a square box. If you have some images that are all good kb size but are a bit random in their dimensions, you can use this class to make them fit dynamically in a box. It will make images that are larger than the bounds of the box smaller, but will not adjust the size of images that are smaller than then bounds. That would make them blurry, so instead it just makes them centered in the box.

I am using this in a scenario where there are images that have been uploaded to the server that are very small 200×200 and rather large 1000×1200. The size of my display box in this example is 400×400.

Here is a demo: http://www.matthewaprice.com/image-resize-demo/

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WordPressFeeder.com – Embed Your WordPress Feed Externally

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Introducing a new tool! This site lets you create a snippet that you can embed or give to someone else to display your blog articles outside of your site. I built this as there are some hosted shopping cart solutions where you cannot run PHP, and you cannot style elements in an iFrame not from your own site. By creating WordPressFeeder.com, I got around both of these issues. The generated code creates stylable elements on your external site.

Here is a demo of this in action view demo

Feel free to let me know any suggestions, feature requests, or issues you may have with this by commenting on this post.

The first step is to simply put in a link to your feed and choose from the following options:

  • Article content character limit
  • You can choose what you want your article titles to be wrapped in: h1 ,h2, span, div, etc
  • How many posts do you want to show
  • Read more link customization. You can pick from up to 9 options
  • and…Whether or not you want to display The Post Thumbnail
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Jquery Tabs Without Jquery UI

Here is a compact way to replicate jQuery UI tabs without the UI. I wrote this code to account for unlimited tabs and to create dynamic “selected” class on the clicked item and removes the class when you click on another tab. This lends itself to easier styling of the tabs as well.

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Simple WordPress Accordion Menu

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So when WordPress introduced the wp_nav_menu() function, it made it easier to create navigation menus for the average user. You can create dropdown navigation simply moving the items around in the admin -> appearance -> menu section of your dashboard. This tutorial requires jQuery, but is not a jQuery plugin.

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