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WordPress short codes are everywhere: in practically every theme and many, many plugins. They are extremely useful and provide huge amounts of extra functionality. With all of their greatness, however, there is one major problem with them: they are not very user friendly, particularly for users who are not familiar with programming, especially when a short code accepts more than one parameter. So, in order to help the non-programmer users, we need a new solution.

The ideal solution is one that provides an interface for the user to input all of their short code options without having to enter any “code”. This is a pretty common technique used by a lot of developers, but until now, there has never been a good tutorial on it, so we are going to fix that.

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You will have seen blogs showcase their Twitter, Facebook, and RSS counts with typography. With these numbers in plain text, you can style them into your website far more effectively than if you were to use the old-fashioned “chicklets.”

Twitter and Facebook make this easy, but you’ll need to take an extra step with FeedBurner first. Log in, then click Publicize > Awareness API, and click activate.

All set? Then let’s get started!

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Whether you’re a developer or a designer, a strong jQuery skillset is something you can’t afford to be without. Today, I’m going to show you 30 handy jQuery coding tricks that will help you make your scripts more robust, elegant and professional.

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These tips and tricks all have one thing in common- they are all smashingly useful. With this stuff in your back pocket, you’ll be ready to go change the world, and even better, write jQuery like you know what you’re doing. It’s gonna be fun.

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