Hiding information from the WordPress admin

So, while I was working on my Back End Instructions plugin yesterday, I was talking to my husband about the client I had built it for. As a quick notation, it’s a group of women who are of a certain age (no offense to anyone – I’m getting there myself!) and who do not like change. It’s taken me almost three years of pulling teeth to get things to where they are now. They want...

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Better Text Widget

NOTE: October 5, 2010 I just recently used this plugin while developing locally for a client. I did an SQL export of the site to move the testbed to the live server, and was muchly surprised to discover this widget does not get retained in the database for some reason. I had to redo all of the widgets manually. I just wanted to post notice of this bug, because I want you to know that...

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Expandable Comment Replies

So although I’ve said before that I was working on my first plugin, I’m actually going to release my first plugin. it’s the first one I’m letting out into the wild – not the first one I’ve written So here it is – my jQuery Expandable Comment Replies.

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An evil little trick.

Yes, I said “evil”. Because it is. I belong to a couple of awesome networking lists. On one of these lists, recently, someone was asking about a possible solution to what is truly a common problem for us designers/programmers who provide CMS solutions for our clients. The problem? Microsoft Word. All of you reading this…how many of you have create an awesome site design with pristine code and gorgeous formatting, and your client is all...

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