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How to add a Font Awesome icon as a menu item

I’ve started recording a lot of videos, this being the first, for 48in48 (If you don’t know what 48in48 is… we build 48 websites for 48 nonprofits in 48 hours).  At the events, we have 150 (or so) volunteers building these web sites and a lot of times, they have a lot of web experience, but…

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A Page Builder Must Have Add-On

Page builders are more common in the WordPress community now than ever.  There has been a void for content formatting for years.  As much as we all love the WP Editor (more specifically TinyMCE Editor), it doesn’t even make it easy to have two images side by side.  To do that, you would have to…

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Beaver Builder Visual Hook Guide How To

One of the guys (Bret) showed me this plugin that is on GitHub and I figured it would be helpful for a lot of people that aren’t quite sure how to use the plugin to create a video. This video will walk you through downloading the plugin from GitHub, enabling the plugin, and then creating…

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Social Media Ted Talks

I’m a big fan of Ted Talks, it forces me to think through my processes and my habits. Recently I wrote a blog post called “Breaking the Social Media Addiction“. Was I addicted to Social Media? Maybe, but I don’t think so, but I’d rather assume I was and make some changes to make sure…

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Home offices and the noise it may bring

Working from home has it’s advantages and disadvantages, but I wouldn’t change it. I think that the work/life balance is slightly off, sometimes really off. I’m not judging, I’d rather have my family around me, working just 40-45 hours a week instead of more. I also understand that it is often hard to get to…

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What is Namespacing?

Namespacing is something that’s been around in many other languages for quite awhile. In PHP, it was introduced at version 5.3. In PHP, they are designed to solve two problems: Name collisions between code you create, and internal PHP calsses/functions/constants or third-party classes/functions/constants. Ability to alias (or shorten) Extra_Long_names designed to alleviate the first problem,…