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Create your Twitter API OAuth Settings

By The Mighty Mo! Design Co. / June 17, 2014 / Comments Off

There are times that we will be asking our clients to obtain their Twitter API so we can integrate their WordPress site. Here is a quick guide to get your Twitter OAuth Settings. 1) Sign in using your twitter account: https://apps.twitter.com/ 2) Create a new app 3) Enter Name, Description & website. You can leave…

How to Create a BuddyPress 1.2 Child Theme

By / January 25, 2010 /

I just spent a good 30 minutes figuring this out, so I thought I would post just in case anyone out there is having a similar mental block. 🙂 To create a BuddyPress 1.2 child theme, simply create a new folder in your normal “wp-content/themes” folder and then put a style.css file into that folder…

How to Change the […] in WordPress’ the_excerpt Hook

By / August 11, 2009 /

WordPress’ “the_excerpt()” hook has a long track record of annoying people. On the one hand, it is a totally awesome way to grab a quick summary of the article. On the other hand, it totally sucks, because it doesn’t provide any options (a.k.a. “parameters”). By default, it leaves the equivalent of pigeon droppings on your…

Notes from “Getting the Pretty Stuff In” Presentation at Flashbelt with Paul Burnett

By / June 8, 2009 / Comments Off

Photoshop Take a bunch of photos of the exterior of a building 1) Select all the photos 2) Tools –> Open into Layers 3) “Auto-align” the layers 4) (with all of the layers selected) Layer –> Smart Objects –> Convert to smart object 5) Layer –> Smart objects –> Stack mode –> Median To stitch…