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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 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

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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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 : 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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Wordpress Shopping Cart Plugin

The Wordpress Shopping Cart plugin gives you the ability to quickly and seamlessly integrate an online shop with a fully functional shopping cart interface into any Wordpress website.

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Wordpress : Using jQuery library with your plugin or theme

When you develop a Wordpress plugin or theme, you might want to make use of the jQuery library included and distributed with the Wordpress package.

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Wordpress : Translate a Plugin

First off, you have to know that not all Wordpress plugins can be translated. The plugin developer(s) had to take the necessary steps such as using the Wordpress __() and _e() functions and load_plugin_textdomain() in order to parse the strings/text of the plugin through the localization system.

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WordPress : Using Javascript libraries with your plugin or theme

When you develop a Wordpress plugin or theme, you might want to make use of some of the Javascript libraries distributed with the Wordpress package such as Prototype, Scriptaculous and jQuery.

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PHP : Cannot use a scalar value as an array

I was working on a Wordpress plugin today and came across the most disturbing PHP warning error which I have never seen before in all the time that I’ve worked with PHP. The warning error message was : Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array What caused this error was when I tried to append [...]

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