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One of the most popular requests we receive is from Australian property agencies asking for a WordPress powered real estate website. WordPress is number 1 Content Management System – it’s easy to use and easy to developed on. Since we are getting more and more requests, we have decided to develop a Australian Real Estate [...]

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When you’re using WordPress as a CMS for clients, it’s a good idea to customise the Admin Login page so the client feels the ownership of the Admin console that they will be using. It doesn’t have to be complicated, by placing the following code into functions.php of the current theme, almost half the work [...]

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If you wish to disable wpadminbar in WordPress 3.1+ for a specific theme, just add the following line of code into functions.php file of your theme. No plugin installation required. add_action( ‘show_admin_bar’, ‘__return_false’ );

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A lot of people have emailed and asked me for ready-made mobile themes that they can easily install on their WordPress blog so I have decided to put together four of my favourite professional and affordable mobile themes for WordPress. For Advanced Users and Developers WPtouch Pro WPtouch Pro is a premium version of the [...]

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Using Google Fonts in your WordPress Theme is very easy and it can be completed in 3 simple steps. 1. Go to Google Web Fonts, browse all the fonts available for use on your website and pick any font you like. For this example, I will be using Droid Sans. 2. Click on the font [...]

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WordPress 3.0 was released a few days ago, and it’s more powerful than it has ever been. And if you are thinking of using WordPress 3 for your blog or even as a CMS, I recommend a self-hosted version rather than the free version hosted on WordPress.com. So, what are the server requirements to host [...]

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I was looking to buy a premium WordPress Theme for one of my projects a while ago and I came across ThemeForest and WooThemes. There are other premium WordPress Theme stores like Elegant Themes, Templatic, Template Monster, etc, but ThemeForest and WooThemes are leading the market. After looking around for a while, I decided to [...]

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Here is a step-by-step tutorial on how to customise WordPress Login page for your website/blog. This tutorial will show you how to change the WordPress logo and link on the Login page without hacking the core code nor installing a plugin. 1. Copy and paste the following code into functions.php file of your current theme. [...]

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WordPress iPhone app was released almost a year ago, but I have only downloaded and used it recently. WordPress for iPhone is available for all self-hosted wordpress.com blogs provided they are using WordPress 2.7 or higher. The app allows you to access the Administrator Panel of the WordPress blog using your iPhone, enabling you to [...]

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To display 5 latest posts in each parent category of your WordPress blog, add the following code into the template that you want the result to appear. In our case, we added the following code into our 404 template page (404.php of current theme). Other places that you might want to display a list of [...]

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