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Drop Caps For WordPress

Drop caps are a really simple way of making your posts just that bit more interesting. They're easy to do too - in this post we'll find out how we can use a mixture of CSS3 and plugins in order to spark up posts with minimum effort.

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Really Easy Custom Post Backgrounds For WordPress

As I mentioned before, I've been having great fun with the new Nometet.com design. It's now sporting a feature that allows the author to set a custom background for the post just by uploading an image. This image doesn't even need to be the correct size; that's all done on the fly. Uploading isn't hard either; I've implemented an uploader that sits inside a meta box so the hardest bit is choosing the image! In this post we'll have a look at how it's done.

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Art Direction For WordPress

"Art direction", custom post designs, whatever you want to call them have taken off in a big way recently. First it was Jason Santa Maria amongst others, then Smashing Magazine picked up on it and as a trend it exploded. For good reason too; they're awesome and great fun to do. In this post we'll see how art direction and WordPress can be combined to create something awesome.

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Single Page Portfolios With WordPress

I'll admit, I wasn't quite sure how I was going to do this. I was tasked with making a single page design easily editable. Obviously, I looked to WordPress so that I had a nice backend. Question was how to do it? Posts were out of the questionso I looked to pages. But you can't display multiple pages on the same page, can you?

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