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Do WordPress users need Jetpack?
Automattic, the people behind WordPress have announced JetPack. In essence, it’s a plugin for self-hosted WordPress owners that adds functionality that WordPress.com bloggers have had for a while. That sounds a good thing, right? Well, most of the plugins (bar one) are available separately from Automattic and, this way, you can at least only install…
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So, what is EmbedPlus?
Yesterday I announced that my YouTube Embed WordPress plugin would include EmbedPlus. But what exactly is it? First of all, let me explain YouTube embedding.
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Windows 7 and "No such interface supported" error
So, I connect my brand new monitor (details to follow) and attempt to look at the display settings in Windows (I’m running Windows 7 64-bit to be more precise). Except all I get is a pop-up boxed titled “explorer.exe” which states “No such interface supported”. I’d also noticed that links in the Control Panel were…
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Finding App APKs for Android Tablets
Most Android tablet devices come with their own, limited, app stores rather than the Google Marketplace. The easiest way around this is to install the apps you want manually – these are .APK files. Other than using Google and searching for each individually, there are a number of sites which allow you to download APK…
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WordPress function get_the_shortlink
Many WordPress functions have a standard version which outputs the results directly and an additional version prefixed with get_ that returns the output – useful for adding to a string and manipulating before output. One such exclusion is the_shortlink, which returns a short link to any page or post – there is no get_the_shortlink, so…