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In header.php file of my WordPress theme, I have the following code to display a different header image for different pages.

<?php
if (is_page(‘about’)) {
$image = ‘image_about.jpg’;
} else if (is_page(‘projects’)) {
$image = ‘image_projects.jpg’;
} else if (is_page(’services’)) {
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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Template Monster is giving away a Free Easter WordPress Theme and 20% discount on Religious templates.

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Findings from the Survey for people who make websites, 2008 are now available on A List Apart website.
All the findings are very informative and helpful; but the ones that interest me most are:

Job titles where percentages increase with age, until age 65: Accessibility Expert and Information Architect.
While women comprise 16.2% of the [...]

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Someone emailed and told me that they liked the Recent Posts feature on my blog homepage and would like to know how I did it. Well, it is actually very simple, there is no plugin or widget – all you need to do is add the following snippet to index.php of your WordPress [...]

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It is not uncommon for a WordPress blog to display a list of all posts in an alphabetical order. I was using <?php wp_get_archives(‘type=postbypost’);?> to display all posts by post title but I couldn’t find a way to sort the post titles in an alphabetical order. After looking at the [...]

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The followings are useful cheat sheets for web developers who need to refer to certain syntax and code quickly and easily. They are printer-friendly so you can print them out and stick them on your wall like posters. For those who want a little more than cheat sheets, check our our recommended web [...]

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WordPress has launched a new service called Jobs at WordPress, which is a job board for all things WordPress. According to their FAQs, the service is currently in beta and it will be free while in beta. Jobs are categorised into:

General positions
WordPress blogger positions
WordPress design positions and
WordPress programmer positions

There are already a [...]

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WordPress has just released WordPress 2.2 (Getz) today. I will be downloading and installing it for my blogs in the next few days.
According to the official announcement, WordPress 2.2 has many new features such as:

WordPress Widgets
Full Atom support
A new Blogger importer
Infinite comment stream
Smart plugin detection
Speed optimizations
WYSIWYG support in a future version [...]

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