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$.fn.checkAvailability = function() {
$("#check-username").click(function() {
if ( $(‘#username’).attr("value") != ”) {
$(‘.loading’).show();
var username = $(‘#username’).val().toLowerCase();
$.get("check-username.php", { username:username } , function(data) {
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One of our latest projects at Anansi Web Development was to build a real estate website with a simple CMS. And I thought, rather than building something from the scratch, why don’t we use WordPress as a CMS and add necessary functionalities. And therefore, here are the steps involved in building [...]

If you are hard-coding your navigation menu in WordPress rather than using wp_list_pages() template tag, you will need to add a class manually in order to highlight the current page it is on.
<li<?php if (is_page(‘gallery’)) : echo ‘ class="current_page_item"’; endif; ?>><a href="gallery/">Gallery</a></li>
Note: wp_list_pages() template tag automatically add current_page_item class to the <li> element [...]

Problem in IE8:
The upper half of the <fieldset> border goes missing. This problem has been discussed here and shown here.
HTML:

<form action="login.php" method="post" id="login">
<fieldset>
<legend>Login</legend>
<label for="username" class="label">Username</label>
<input type="text" name="username" id="username"/>
<label for="password" class="label">Password</label>
<input [...]

Ever since finding out about WolframAlpha.com, I’ve been playing with it and I must say it’s pretty amazing and addictive.
WolframAlpha(tm) is a new type of search engine – or what they call “computational knowledge engine”.
Rather than trying to explain what it is and what it does in words, lets have a [...]