Amaizing WordPress hacks part 2

Ok, here it is! The second part of Amaizing WordPress hacks article, hope you'll enjoy this one as you did the part one where we have learned how to forward section pages, Grab the textual content of a Post, Load a stylesheet with dynamic values dependent on the Page view, set Post Expiration time and date etc...

Carousel.us is a Javascript 3D carousel, using the prototype.js and scriptaculous.js frameworks. It also uses PHP Easy Reflections by Richard Davey. You will find a configuration file which you can define the default parameters or you can also define them via URL using the GET method. You can set the Reflection opacity, Reflection height, spacing between images, Position of the carousel center, Carousel speed and Add onclick event on each image...

I constantly come across excellent designs that feature various elements of nature and I’ve been collecting samples for a while now. Some use photos and others use illustration. Some feature bright skies and clouds, and others feature mountains, water, or grass. Feel free to list your favorites in the comments...


I’ve launched a new website to document information on the world’s most iconic logo designers. The site features inspirational creatives such as Herb Lubalin, Steff Geissbuhler and Alan Fletcher. You might wonder why I’m using a new website rather than simply publishing the details here, or on Logo Design Love, so I’ll tell you a short story...

Earlier today, I received an email from PayPal, indicating that my MoFuse Professional account – which I use for powering a mobile version of my web site under my own domain – had been cancelled. Confused, I emailed David Berube, Chief Architect of MoFuse, who gave me the good news: MoFuse has decided to make its service free for everyone...

Less than two weeks ago TokBox released its Facebook chat application, enabling you to begin a video chat session from directly within Facebook’s internal instant messaging client. Today, TokBox is launching a completely new application on Adobe Air. This downloadable app acts as a complimentary option to the Web-based TokBox version, which is likely to be a more familiar experience to video Web chat users...

Photobucket on Monday fixed a security hole that allowed people to view private photos of strangers.
All that was needed was the user ID of someone with a private album on Photobucket and the file name of one photo in their album, said Byron Ng, a Vancouver, B.C.-based computer technician who exposes security flaws in social networks and other sites...

I have been very interested in typography, I have also noticed the growth of typography moving to the web. More specific, designers are paying more attention to typography when design for the web. There are many sites now that use typography to be a very powerful element. In my last post about typography We All Love Typography, the post was more concentrated on offline typography. Today we look at Web Typography, and I do believe the following examples will show you how powerful web typography is...

Google Toolbar has a useful feature called AutoLink which detects the content from a page that follows some predefined patterns and adds links to pages that offer more information. AutoLink detects US addresses, UPS tracking numbers, International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN) and Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN) and links to relevant pages from sites like Google Maps, Amazon or CarFax. Despite its name, AutoLink adds the links only after you click on the Google Toolbar button and also shows the links in a drop-down menu...

With my Google hat on, I got to interview Michael Marcus and Rui Ma, two recent graduates from a masters program at NYU. They joined me to discuss Gears on Rails, their open source framework that makes it easier than ever to take a Rails code-base offline.