Here’s another short and quick little WordPress hack for ya, it comes from Smashing Magazine and t it lets you control how often your RSS widget should refresh. As with most WordPress hacks, all it takes is adding a snippet of code in your functions.php file. Here’s the code that you have to copy and [...]
Fancy Box is a Mac-style lightbox that floats overtop of a web page. This is a nice tool if you want add zooming functionality to show your images, HTML, and multi-media in your site. Fancy Box is easy to implement and it is created with jQuery library that is licensed under MIT and GPL licenses. [...]
Since the Web 2.0 marketing was introduced in 1999, social media has rapidly become an essential part of any online marketing strategy. Social media networks on the web, including Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, have turned marketing and promotion into a two-way conversation between companies and their customers. For companies looking to monitor their brand presence [...]
Greek visual designer Charis Tsevis has created some visually stimulating graphics for Yahoo!’s coverage of the 2012 London Olympic Games. These images are geometric styles met with brilliant color to fully show the spirit and movement of this year’s participants in 3 illustrations each for diving, gymnastics and running. Each image features Tsevis’ signature mosaic [...]
Here’s a quick and short tutorial shared by Damien Oh from WPBDailyBits that shows you how you can change the font in WordPress’ HTML editor. Follow the very brief instructions below to find out how. Open your theme’s functions.php file. Copy/paste the following code below: add_action( ‘admin_head-post.php’, ‘wpdb_fix_html_editor_font’ ); add_action( ‘admin_head-post-new.php’, ‘wpdb_fix_html_editor_font’ ); function wpdb_fix_html_editor_font() [...]
Today’s feature is a Photoshop tutorial on how you can create a smoke text effect. Tom of PSDFAN has updated his previous tutorial on creating Smokey Typography, where the effect is more realistic than before and uses an updated workflow of Photoshop’s non-destructive tools which you can edit any time. To start it up, create [...]
Some people would want to execute PHP codes in WordPress’ default text widget but this is not possible since it does not support such a task. There are, however, a number of plugins available that you can use to do this. But thanks to Marvie Pons of TriptripperTips who shared this helpful snippet of code, [...]
Another cool light box that you can use in your site is Highslide JS. It is a JavaScript-based light box image, media and gallery viewer. Its key features are: It’s quick and has an elegant look. It does not require plugins like Flash or Java. Content opens within the active browser window so popup blockers [...]
A cool and accessible video player you can integrate to your site is VP Factory. It is an impressively powerful video player that is highly customizable and has a cloud-based, video management app with many customizable features. Use this to publish your video content on your sites and social networks. You can also create ads [...]
Libby Fisher came up with this nice code snippet and shared it on ICode4You, which I thought would also be worth sharing here on Blogfreakz. It’s a JavaScript code that lets you create a “Pin It” button using a custom graphic for your website. Copy it and enjoy sharing your favorite images in Pinterest! <div> [...]
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