Radical Development

December 26, 2011
by Steven Swafford
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Colorlabs Wardrobe WordPress Theme Giveaway

Update: If you were not selected as a winner stay tuned in February as I will have another giveaway. On January 1, 2012, I will giving away this theme. Wardrobe provides exceptional control for all aspects of your e-Commerce website. Whether you’re already running an online fashion store that needs updating, or planning to build a new WordPress-powered online store, the Wardrobe theme will be incredibly valuable to you. The pre-made template makes the job of putting up an online store easy without much complication. Wardrobe has a simplified design with clean graphics and good use of color that shift …

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January 5, 2011
by Steven Swafford
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WordPress Functions Hack To Open External Links In A New Window

Are you wanting to a mechanism to open all external links on your WordPress site in a new window? If you’re not familiar with functions.php as with anything make a backup before you begin any modifications and store this backup in a secure place. What functions.php does is let you create functions you can reuse. It works similar to a plugin, being loaded when the WordPress theme is first loaded. You can then use the functions inside for anything you wish. Just take the following code and save it inside your local functions.php: There you have it. One word of …

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September 15, 2010
by Steven Swafford
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Theme Giveaway: Weekly By Theme Junkie

Okay all of you theme junkies, no pun intended. Today I secured the theme Weekly from Theme Junkie and I thought that I would give one person a chance to win this theme. Should you be interest the rules are very simple. Leave a comment explaining why you want this theme and be creative. Don’t just say because I like it. On 1 Oct I will select a winner based upon the comments received solely at my discretion. Again, the more creative you are with your comment the better your chance. Features: Newly Designed & Easy-to-use Theme Options(New!) Unlimited One/Two …

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June 23, 2010
by Steven Swafford
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WordPress Themes Roundup

If you’re looking for a theme to refresh that tired look of your WordPress blog then take a moment to look at these resources. While there are a number of different theme flavors out there both free and commercial only you can decide what best suits your needs. I must say if you find a commercial theme please purchase it and support the theme owner. While many if not all theme owners work out of love they still must eat. I have tried a number of themes myself and I keep coming back to my personal favorite Hybrid and the …

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June 20, 2010
by Steven Swafford
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Web Hosting Gone Wrong: Webhost4life

As you may have noticed last Friday evening my website was extremely slow and when it loaded it resulted in error after error. As soon as I saw the problem I begun to investigate the root cause in order to determine the best approach to resolve the issue. To my surprise WebHost4Life whom I am now calling WebHostNot4Life had migrated my site and database to a new server. Typically a move to newer hardware represents a positive aspect but in this case WebHost4Life completely failed at the task, in fact a quick search of Google yielded a number of customers …

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June 2, 2010
by Steven Swafford
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AutoBlogged WordPress Plugin Product Review

If you’re wanting to automate your blog posting with external content then look no more. AutoBlogged is a powerful autoblogging plugin for WordPress that automatically creates blog posts from any RSS or Atom feed. Autoblogging is a great way to automate your WordPress posts so you can focus your efforts on earning money with your blog. With dozens of features, AutoBlogged is one of the most powerful autoblog software plugins available for WordPress and the best way to get automated blog content. Not only is the product easy to use, but it does a great job at syndication all without …

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March 12, 2010
by Steven Swafford
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Ten WordPress Plugins To Help You Manage Advertising

Managing advertising campaigns is easier than you may think with the right plugin. There are a number of different ways you can add advertisements to your WordPress blog and I thought I would take the time to list the plugins that I feel work best for me. Various WordPress plugins may assign advertising blocks to specific areas, or allow you to customize where they appear. Others will automatically inject them between blog posts or within the post content itself. Look closely at each plugin to determine what works best for you. Chances are you will be able to utilize one …

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