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Gravity Forms automatic labels in fields that disappear and reappear upon focus/blur

Although Gravity Forms provides nice options and CSS control to make your form labels show top/left/right, there is no option to have the label display INSIDE the form field, disappear when clicked on, and then only reappear if the user leaves the field with no value in it, else, leave ...

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jQuery Tools: Stop Vimeo playing on overlay close

The problem is using the jQuery Tools library, specifically the 'overlay' functionality to load in Vimeo players onto an overlay. When the user closes the overlay the video keeps playing.

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WordPress functions file, the missing bits.

So often I am adding core missing functionality the to WordPress functions file that I finally made a template and it seems only nice to put it online and explain it.

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is_child() not working – Fixed

If your is_child() WordPress function has stopped working since 3.1, here is the fix.

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Shopp Analytics conversion tracking for Google Checkout

Shopp, the fantastic commerce plugin for WordPress has one (ok a few, but one we are dealing with here) drawbacks, namely, if you client is using Google Adwords (or even if they aren't and merely want to track conversions) there is no way to accurately track successful transactions as there ...

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5 Crucial WordPress security tips

Sometimes there are just so many tips, suggestions and plugins out there it can get a little overwhelming which ones work and which do more harm than good...

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join.me

I have a constant need to see what my clients can see on their screens because as we all know clients are not the best at always being able to explain what is wrong in technical terms, however i have never favoured tools such as LogMeIn due to the need ...

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iPhone Battery drains way too quickly – FIXED

I have an iPhone 4 and i am well aware that smart phones do not have as good battery life as the old Nokia bricks we were all used to, however having had iPhone Edge, 3G and now a 4, i am well aware of the battery life of my iPhone and actually found the 4 to be much better than its little 3G brother. Until a few days ago that is, when after charging the phone all night, at 1pm it was empty !!

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Stop WordPress loading JQuery in wp_head()

A problem i have been encountering a lot recently especially through my extensive use of jQuery Tools is being able to stop WordPress loading jQuery in in wp_head().

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IE8 CSS Hack – Make IE8 work like IE7

Another Internet Explorer, another set of problems. As soon as we draw near to the close of having to support IE6, well for free anyway - .... we suddenly have to start learning the hacks for the latest IE, in this case 8.

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