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ActionPress is all about pressing the action button. Like, let's say there's an action button. And you press it. And magically lots of baby actions fall from the sky and the revolution comes quickly in the night while you're asleep and people talk to their neighbors again and all of your beef is locally raised. I'm telling you: magic.
Recent Posts
Sharing is Caring
So, a lot of people ask us about ‘share this’ and ‘tweet that’ buttons, and there’s a few ways of doing this. I decided to take a second and document the various auto-sharing mechanisms that are available for facebook and twitter right now. these might not work in a week, who knows.
...read moreWhat did Facebook just do?
Facebook just launched a new feature that automatically grants access to your information to popular websites (or as they put it: “personalize your experience using your public Facebook information”), even if you haven’t explicitly ‘liked’ them or interacted with them at all on facebook. The first three that get to try it are yelp, pandora, [...]
...read moreWordPress featured plugin: import Media Library items in bulk
So you’re moving your site into wordpress from a old flat file or other system. How do get them into the media library without making yourself insane? 
Wholesome WordPress plugin goodness
a review of our favorite wordpress plugins
...read moreAdding A Widgetized Sidebar
Wordpress Theme templates can have as many widget based sidebar’s as you have the patience to define. The default one is always in a file called sidebar.php — after that it doesn’t really matter what you call the files. Here’s the steps for adding one
...read moreA Simple CSS Image magnification effect
This is a great little trick for making a hover effect for images to show a larger version. It takes a little CSS skill to get it setup and some HTML confidence to make use of it but it is a simple flexible effect.
...read moreEmail templating, disaster of the century
So, you want to build an email template that looks decent across email clients? There’s only one rule: keep it simple. Restrain your fancy CSS skills folks, ‘cuz tonight we’re gonna code like it’s 1996.
...read moreResizing the default text size on the built-in Tag Cloud Widget
The default Tag Cloud Widget that comes install in WP has it’s text set to a range of 8pt to 22pt. if this doesn’t fit your available space the regretful only way to change that is directly in editing a function.
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