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A new avatar generator for WordPress with get_avatar and Flathash
Brand new avatars for WordPress Gravatar service
Orari trenord, corri solo quando ce n’è bisogno
Hai presente quando corri in stazione per prendere il treno al volo e, quando arrivi, ti accorgi che il treno ha 12 minuti di ritardo?
Retrofitting of a vintage Lael Tester from 1955
I've learned a lot of things by disassembling and changing the way an old tester works
Ultrasonic gun from a gun toy with Arduino
A toy gun hacked to become a distance measuring tool
Best meteo embed: Windyty Widget
Meteo site with fantastic wind visualization. There are available also other parameters, but the wind visualization is really perfect! Try…
Highlight text for search results in PHP
Useful code to highlight text occurences in search results or in a text. How to highlight text in a string…
Remove or change the view link in WordPress posts list admin
If you want to remove the row action ‘view’ from the admin posts list within a specific custom post type…
Unicorns as user avatar generator
Generator of avatars for community with funny unicorns images. [try unicorns avatar generator]
Modify list counter in :before pseudo class with jQuery using start attribute
Custom li list item with pseudo classes
How to bring back tweet counters
Twitter doesn't want you to see how many tweets your links did.
How to add rel=”nofollow” to links with preg_replace()
Adding rel="nofollow" to external link is a good SEO practice.
WordPress 4.1.1 is available! Please update now.
Sometimes you find messages like “WordPress 4.1.1 is available! Please update now.“, in italian it is: “È disponibile WordPress 4.1.1! Aggiorna…
Fix for WP SUPER CACHE home not refreshing
WP SUPER CACHE is one of the most used WordPress plugin for cache, but probably there is a small bug…
Add client logo to wordpress login
If you want to add your logo or the logo of your client above the wordpress login you have to…
Force WordPress to use Italian date
To get date with get_the_time in Italian you should specify italian (it_IT) in the WP_LANG constamt in your wp_config.php file.…
VK Social metrics, Top Stories plugin now with support for Vkontakte
VK SOCIAL METRICS VK.COM, also known as Vkontakte, is an important russian social network, which has over 270 million users.…
Get Google Plus Follower count from PHP in WordPress
I’ve found a similar function to retrieve the number of followers of a Google Plus page, inside WordPress, but it…
How to Fan Gate a page in wordpress?
You can use my plugin, which is totally custom for layout (you can change the image of the pop up…
8 rules to become a better developer
I’ve found this article by Shawn McCool and I think it’s good for every developer, if you’re an expert probably…
Text 2 Mind Map a simple mind mapping online tool
I’ve found this tool to make online mind maps, just copy and paste the text with terms (properly indented) to…
Reordering rows records on a mysql table with PHP
This PHP function lets you reorder records on a table when you have a field used for save the position.…
Scraping content with PHP as if it was jQuery
Building a spider or a bot needs some knowledge of regular expressions, you must know and use preg_match or preg_match_all…