MonoShade is a multi colour scheme premium wordpress theme with advanced features and jQuery effects. It has 4 choices of blog index styles, 5 choices of fonts, 5 choices of animation styles for featured gallery, auto thumbnail generation, 5 ready-made adsense positions and more. All can be controlled via the powerful theme options page. It can have unlimited colour schemes (it has 8 colour schemes currently).
Price: $15

Zinx is my first free theme in 2012, a zebra stripes design wordpress magazine theme with premium features such as animated gallery, post thumbnail, featured video, latest tweets, social bookmark, popular posts and more. Come in to view the demo and list of features.
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oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. Which means, if we have a video page’s URL, we can easily get the video thumbnail photo, video title, HTML code to embed it in our website and more. But of course, the video site must have oEmbed support in order for us to do that.

We do not often need this but sometimes when we need to retrieve the next auto increment value of a table (without incrementing the auto increment value of course), this solution below will help.

This year Google is celebrating christmas with the world. Try searching for “Let It Snow” at google.com and you will see snowflakes start falling from top of the page. Few seconds later, your page will be covered by a layer of snow where you can draw anything you want on the screen. Clicking the blue “Defrost” button will bring the page back to normal, except that snowflakes still continue to fall.

OceanWave is my last free theme of 2011, it is a wordpress magazine theme with premium features such as animated gallery, post thumbnail, featured video, latest tweets, social bookmark, popular posts and more. Come in to view the demo and list of features.
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Sometimes we need to exclude a few unimportant categories from our main feed or other pages. A quick search through the web, you will arrive at wprecipes’ tutorial, which unfortunately happens to be erroneous because wrong function was used (as of 15 Dec 2011). Anyway, in this blogpost I am gonna show how to exclude categories in RSS Feed, as well as Homepage, Search Page and more.

There are a number of ways to achieve what we want, but the best and cleanest method is to exclude using WordPress Action Hook.

As a web developer, we often need to display dates in our website. As a web user myself, I don’t like to read full dates like “26 November 2011 11:30PM” because it takes me a little while to interpret the date. I prefer reading smart dates like “1 hour ago” or “6 months ago”. Therefore, here I wrote a quick and simple function in PHP that display the time difference/elapsed based on a given timestamp value.

This is a set of free social bookmark icons in cat-ears design. I made them when I am bored. They are ready to be downloaded and used right away. Change the colour of the icons using the “Hue/Saturation” layer to match your design. Hide the “cat ears” layer if you don’t like them

I was developing a new website that uses Facebook Login as the membership system. I came across this situation where I needed to create a “fake” domain by editing the etc/hosts file. Somehow, after editing the etc/hosts file (following an online guide), I cannot seems to browse http://localhost in my browser anymore. However, I can still browse my local apache server using http://127.0.0.1

Few months ago, Facebook removed the page that allow us to generate codes for their official “Share” button. They replaced it with “Like” button instead. While “Like” button is fast and easy but we cannot add our comment along with the “Like” action. Therefore, in some cases, we still need the old Share button. Fortunately, the sharer.php still exists, so we can add the Share button using Facebook’s official script.