How to create a WordPress Widget

To create a wordpress widget is tantamount on saying that you would want to create a wordpress plugin.

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Hawud Currency Converter Widget

Wordpress Currency Converter Widget Screenshot

The Hawud Currency converter widget is a good widget to add if you have an online shop on your wordpress website. This will help your international clients decide on their purchase as they will be able to check how much it would cost them on their local currency.

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How to create WordPress plugins Part 1: Hello World

WordPress is the leading blogging platform used on websites. The main factor that contributed to this is the fact that WordPress is fairly simple to use. Its installation is straightforward enough that almost anybody could do it.

I do not think anyone could actually get lost on its admin dashboard cause that is also relatively simple.

Creating plugins for wordpress is also simple. That fact contributes greatly on the very rich library on wordpress plugins.

So, without complicating things, lets start creating our “Hello World” plugin.

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Timthumb Vulnerability for Possible Server exploit

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The other day I was installing a theme for one of our wordpress sites and I got the following email from our host ….

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How to create WordPress plugins

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In this tutorial series you will be able to learn how to create WordPress plugins from the very start of every programming learning the “Hello world” up to the creation of Administration options for your plugin.

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Install XAMPP on Ubuntu 10.04

This tutorial will show you the steps to fully install xampp on ubuntu 10.04 without problems.

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ITX PEAR Templating

Ever since my ids-media days, I have always worked with a web development team. There are always two major parts of the web dev team I have worked with, Front-end (designers) and the back-end (programmers). The most common hurdle that we encounter is how to be able separate the presentation layer with the logic layer.

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MySQL Fulltext search

There are several ways to search for something in a MySql database. One of these techniques is the use of the LIKE clause.SELECT field1, field2 FROM Table_Name WHERE field2 LIKE ‘%search_string%’

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