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I (Antonie Potgieter) am a software engineer/web developer located in South Africa. My full-time work is the management of Tribulant Software and the development of its software packages.

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WordPress Plugins 2009

Friday, November 28, 2008

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WordPress Plugins 2009

I’ve decided to recommend 5 universal, essential plugins for WordPress so that you can start the year of 2009 on the right foot with your WordPress websites. If you haven’t tried these, go ahead and put them on your WordPress website!

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WordPress Source Code Reference

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

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WordPress Source Code Reference

Browse and search the WordPress source cross reference while working on WordPress related projects.

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WordPress Whois Plugin

Sunday, November 23, 2008

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WordPress Whois Plugin

Download a free WordPress WHOIS plugin which will allow you to insert a domain WHOIS search form into any WordPress post or page.

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WordPress Image Gallery

Saturday, November 22, 2008

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WordPress Image Gallery

Building WordPress image galleries is a rather painless process and allows you to display a set of photos/images to your users inside posts/pages related to an event or topic.

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Turn off error reporting on your production site

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

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Turn off error reporting on your production site

On a production site, you would most likely want to hide all possible PHP errors, warnings and notices from your users for both usability, presentational and security purposes.

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WordPress : Banner Ad Embedding

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

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WordPress : Banner Ad Embedding

Do you feel the need to earn revenue from your WordPress blog or website but you haven’t found the appropriate solution to convert traffic into ROI? If your answer is YES, then it is probable that this post is aimed at you.

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WordPress 2.7 Navigation

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

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WordPress 2.7 Navigation

WordPress 2.7 is expected to be released in November 2008. The WordPress development team posted an entry on the WordPress development blog regarding the WordPress 2.7 navigation options. Go ahead and take the survey and make yourself heard.

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WordPress : Build a Thickbox plugin

Sunday, September 14, 2008

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WordPress : Build a Thickbox plugin

In this guide/tutorial, I will show you how to build a WordPress Thickbox plugin which allows you to use the Thickbox library on your WordPress website and display images in an overlay on the front-end of your site.

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HTML Entities

Thursday, September 11, 2008

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HTML Entities

When you use HTML special symbols on your website pages, it is better to use the actual unicode HTML entities to ensure (X)HTML validation and proper encoding of the content on your pages to all users.

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Install Wordpress via Command Line

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

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Install Wordpress via Command Line

I wrote a useful article/tutorial over at BloggingRocket which guides you through the process of installing Wordpress with Shell Access. Please feel free to check it out and comment.

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