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Plugin bugs, or “gotcha’s”, when used in WPMU

Mike Badgley — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:13:21 +0000

In the days leading up to the Christmas break I was involved in creating a WPMU-powered WordPress blog for one of our clients. This was the first time we (iStudio) or I had used this product, so as you might (…)

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Skinning IdeaJam by Elguiji Software

Mike Badgley — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:11:00 +0000

One of our clients here at iStudio was looking to have a custom design/ skin applied to an idea management software package they were using called IdeaJam. IdeaJam is a product of Elguji Software, LLC, and is used by a (…)

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Creating a fully functional CMS with WordPress, WPML and Flutter

Mike Badgley — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:21:00 +0000

Working on a redesign for a client, which is being built with WordPress. The client had a theme already created, so what had to be done was considerable content-population as well as building and structuring the site. This site is (…)

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YouTube video stream in a WordPress blog

Mike Badgley — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:48:01 +0000

While working on a WordPress blog implementation for a client, I came up with a bit of an interesting solution for a feature request they had. In short, they wanted to be able to show a list of videos from (…)

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Launch of “Passwords: Passing on Words of Wisdom and Hope”

Mike Badgley — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:02:41 +0000

On Wednesday afternoon I launched a Web site of a book of a collection (21 in total) of local authors called Passwords: Passing on Words of Wisdom and Hope, Volume 1. The web site was designed to promote the book (…)

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An interesting (?) implementation of WordPress as a CMS

Mike Badgley — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:40:46 +0000

This past weekend (and early this week) I’ve been working on a small micro site for a client who needed something ready to go ASAP. In an effort to conserve time, we decided to go a CMS route so that (…)

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Using graphical (background) imagery for a Telerik RadTabStrip

Mike Badgley — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:40:33 +0000

While working on another Sitefinity project – and yes, it’s safe to say that we have fallen in love with the product – our lead developer here came up with a nifty method for implementing a graphical navigation approach to (…)

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Skinning Sitefinity: Part 2

Mike Badgley — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:42:50 +0000

With the birth of my first child, Zachary Michael, I was away for a few days and all things web-related were far from my mind. I know, for a Web geek that is pure blasphemy, but it’s the truth! :) (…)

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Skinning Sitefinity: Part 1

Mike Badgley — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:48:39 +0000

In an earlier article I posted back in March, I discussed how I would be working within a CMS product by Telerick called Sitefinity for one of our major clients here at iStudio. Well the designs for the site have (…)

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Building a Multilingual Site with WordPress – Continued

Mike Badgley — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:43:23 +0000

Growl. This is beginning to get frustrating. Apparently, finding a decent plug-in that gives you a fully multiligual site, with langauge switching, is much tougher than I thought! If you read my last post, you’ll have seen that I was (…)

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