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Custom Wordpress Taxonomies

I can’t think of any practical applications apart from the one given over at Web Developer Plus – but this is too cool not to share.
The basic example was that if you’re running a movie review blog, categories for genre and tags for actors/actresses may work, it would be nicer to have a taxonomy of [...]

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HTML5 MichaelAHeap.com

I wasn’t (and I’m still not) 100% happy with some bits of the design, but before I fixed them I wanted to recode the site using html5. I’m still not sure I understand all of the elements yet, but it’s getting there. I seem to be using an awful lot of <section> tags instead of [...]

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The Wall

The Wall. We’ve all seen and heard of it. Unfortunately, I’m not talking about the Pink Floyd album or the film of the same name. I’m talking about the metaphorical wall that every writer hits every now and then.
Now I’m cheating a little bit here, and likening bloggers to novelists. I don’t see it as [...]

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What Do You Use To Write Blog Posts?

Just a few days ago, I was re-reading a post by Jamie Harrop, entitled The Reasons We Use External Writing Interfaces. It discussed what interfaces Jamie and some of his blogging associates used to write posts. Quite a few of them use the built in Wordpress editor because it works well, and I can’t fault [...]

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