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	<title>Haycroft Media</title>
	<link>http://www.haycroftmedia.com</link>
	<description>Quality Web Programming</description>
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		<title>Changing the Wordpress Language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wordpress backend deals with &#8216;Posts&#8217; and &#8216;Pages&#8217;. For some clients this is too vague, and tweaks are needed.

As an example a site i&#8217;ve been working on recently needed the word &#8216;Post&#8217; to be replaced with &#8216;Product&#8217;. To do this, we need to create our own custom language file. Unfortunately creating a language file is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.haycroftmedia.com/archives/142/changing-the-wordpress-language</link>
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		<title>TwitterTools &#8211; open links in external window</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our site makes use of the Twitter Tools plugin, but with some minor tweaks

The only links that Twitter Tools displays with our set-up are the bit.ly links, the link to the specific tweet (e.g. &#8220;1 hr ago&#8221;) and the &#8220;More Updates&#8230;&#8221; link. All of these links will open their target in the same window, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.haycroftmedia.com/archives/132/twittertools-plugin-open-links-in-external-window</link>
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		<title>Custom Write Panels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the great assets Wordpress possesses is the ability to easily customise the backend.

For example, a client needs a website for a real estate agent. The client will be posting information on the various properties available and displaying standard information on each property:

Title
Short Description
Long Description
Price
Thumbnail image
Large images
Bedrooms
Bathrooms
Generic Description (selected from a list of pre-defined [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.haycroftmedia.com/archives/128/custom-write-panels</link>
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		<title>Writing Wordpress Plugins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re branching out this year, as well as Wordpress themes, we are now building custom plugins as well.

Although we&#8217;ve built a few plugins for customers sites, up until this point we haven&#8217;t released anything into the Wordpress community, but all this is set to change with our first plugin. 
Meantime, if you want to write [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.haycroftmedia.com/archives/126/writing-wordpress-plugins</link>
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		<title>getElementByClass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can use javascript to getElementByTag or getElementById, but what about class?

Like most plastic surgeons at this time of year, we are currently doing some development work on one of our client&#8217;s back-ends! This involves some nipping and tucking of various code including the need to update the currency displayed in various fields should the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.haycroftmedia.com/archives/123/getelementbyclass</link>
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		<title>Convert Text into PNG Image using PHP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are currently working on a Wordpress MU theme that requires logos to be generated on the fly.

Fortunately the logos will just make use of a simple script font, but we still need some means of auto-generating them. We started with a great tutorial at Vision Master Designs and tweaked it slightly to fit in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.haycroftmedia.com/archives/117/convert-text-into-png-image-using-php</link>
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		<title>Exclude categories from Wordpress RSS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Haycroft Media website uses a category for the flashy portfolio on the home page, which we want to hide from the Wordpress RSS feed

There are various options for doing this all detailed in a nice simple tutorial at Web-Kreation.com. We opted for option 2: Exclude categories in your template’s functions.php file, which simply involved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.haycroftmedia.com/archives/114/exclude-categories-from-wordpress-rss</link>
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		<title>Strip wp_head in Wordpress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The wp_head() call in the header of most themes is an invitation for Wordpress to start inserting code into your nice tidy head.

However, we are of the opinon that if you don&#8217;t need it, get rid of it. If you view the source of this site, you will see that we have removed the rsd [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.haycroftmedia.com/archives/110/strip-wp_head-in-wordpress</link>
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		<title>Displaying user data in your Wordpress theme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last time I needed to display user data was for the Press Stick website. For their site, they wanted the user to be greeted with a personalised message on logging in.

The message for the Press Stick site was:
&#8220;hi [NAME] from [MAGAZINE]. welcome back to the press-stick sourcing portal. we look forward to showing you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.haycroftmedia.com/archives/97/97</link>
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		<title>List all blogs in a Wordpress MU installation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The African Travel Experts site has two dropdown lists of all the blogs on their WPMU installation sorted into two different categories. Here&#8217;s how.

The way the site is set up is to have the African Travel Experts site as the main &#8216;umbrella site&#8217; with sub-sites for each African country, which act as parent sites to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.haycroftmedia.com/archives/93/list-all-blogs-in-a-wordpress-mu-installation</link>
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