A slider gives draws the attention to the blog posts selected by the owner and allows the visitors to quickly glance through some of the best posts. It is a smart and welcomed way to promote the blog with its own posts. Many blog owners seek help from various plugins to achieve the slider for featured posts. But Guo Lin prefers to code it directly in the theme he works on, while using the existing 'Sticky Post' feature in WordPress to achieve the same effect. Keep Reading

In one of his projects, one of the requirements was the system must be able to produce an official form document in Excel spreadsheet with precise formatting that will look consistent when printed. Like the smooth strumming of his guitar, Shaiful shares a quick workaround on how to generate complicated Excel documents from your application. Keep Reading

The "HTML mode" in the WordPress editor doesn't really provide you with total control of the HTML being generated on the frontend. Some of the auto-formatting it does are for instance wrapping your inline elements with <p> and line breaks are also interpreted as <p>. If you're someone who likes full control over the HTML of your content in WordPress, this simple solution might interest you. Shaiful shows you how. Keep Reading

When working with databases, one of the tasks that may popped up every once in a while is the need to replace some little snippet of text and all its occurrence throughout the table, to a different text. If you need to perform a quick search and replace on your MySQL database records, Shaiful reassures that you should just take a seat and read on, casually. No biggie. Keep Reading

AddThis is a neat little tool embedded into a webpage to make bookmarking and link sharing easier, more interactive and not to mention, cooler too. Here's how you customize AddThis while keeping the W3C validator happy. Keep Reading