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March 26, 2009

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WordPress Category Exists?

Already tried in WordPress to check if a category exists? There is no Template Tag so you need to create your own solution.
- By Frank on WP Engineer
Core Dump Files in WordPress Folders

I was surprised to see my WordPress folder sizes increasing and FTP revealed huge ‘Core’ dump files in several folders of my WordPress installation. As they gobbled up my server storage space, I had no idea where these came from and what to do with them.
- By Quick Online Tips

Quote This: WordPress Plugin

To continue working on my mission to create new WordPress widgets, fulfill my obsession with shortcodes, and release my fourth plugin this month, I present to you Quote This, a plugin to display quotes on your blog.
- By Justin Tadlock
WordPress Backup Plugin by Blog Traffic Exchange

About a year and a half ago we wrote about how to backup your WordPress blog. In that post, we covered a few different WordPress plugins to manage your database backups, and explained why that was so important.
- By Kyle Eslick on WP Hacks

10 Web Analytics Tools For Tracking Your Visitors

Any blogger or site owner worth his or her salt will tell you that knowing how your site is performing is essential.
- By Rick Tansun on SitePoint
Google Analytics Tips You Should Know About For Your Blog

Every blog owner has been there: you log in to check your traffic and there’s been a spike or dip of epic proportions. A piddling number of visitors (or an inexplicable throng) have been to your page and you did nothing to bring it about.
- By Sandra Hajda on Make Use Of
Top 10 Tips to Increase Entrecard Traffic to Your Blog

Here is a unique way to increase traffic to your blog. It is called Entrecard. It is defined as an advertising platform for blog owners that are offered for free.
- By Brian on TemplateLite

How to Create Dropdown Navbars for Your Subpages and Subcategories

In this tutorial, you will see how to display your sub-categories in an animated dropdown, and how to create similar dropdowns for sub-pages as well. You’ll even be able to highlight the page your reader is currently on.
- By Michael Martin on Pro Blog Design
25 Free Online Color Resource Web Applications

This is a list of 25 free color related web applications to create color palettes, edit color palettes, create color themes, test colors and color palettes against a myriad of variables, find color palettes from images, and more.
- By Christopher on JungleJar
New Screencast: HTML & CSS – The VERY Basics

This video is the VERY basics of what HTML and CSS is, for the absolute beginner. HTML and CSS files are, quite literally, just text files. You don’t need any special software to create them, although a nice code editor is helpful. You can create these files on any computer and use your web browser to preview them during development. You can think of HTML as the content of your website: a bunch of text and references to images wrapped in tags. CSS is the design of your website. It targets the tags you wrote in your HTML and applies the style. Keeping these two things separate is key to quality web design.
- By Chris Coyier on CSS-Tricks
15 Must See MooTools Techniques

- By WebAir blog