As I promised, im now going to share with you the new post thumbnail script that James’ Blog is using, this is the first WordPress tutorial ever posted on James’ Blog and officially starts the new WordPress tutorial category! In this tutorial you’ll be learning how to combine PHP and metadata to create unqiue post thumbnails which can be defined in the Manage post section of WP-Admin

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If you pay attention to URL’s you may notice those fancy URL’s that are structured like with parts like ?ID=1 in them. This can be achieved in a number of ways, however some methods are complex, and some are relatively easy. In actual fact there’s something in PHP called query strings and although it’s not the best way to do it, you can use query strings to generate special structures like ID numbers and such. In this tutorial you will be show a simple way of being able to do this.

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When coding CSS there are many properties that you can optimise, doing this can also save time on defining attributes that can be optimised within on attribute in the first place, having this knowledge can help you with your CSS as well, saving space on your stylesheets and even in some cases speed up page loading times!

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If your website has a feature such as uploader and you want to track the people that use it, then you may want to consider using some sort of record script that will record information to somewhere. After all you are providing a open service to anyone, so if someones abusing it you need to know and be able to block the abusers from damaging your website. In this tutorial you will see how you can create a script that will silently record a user IP address and store all information in a .txt file, no database required!

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Here is probably one of the most effective ways of remembering key elements and attributes by using a quick list. We explain various elements and attributes in tutorials but wouldn’t it be nice to have a page that lists every HTML tag, element and attribute with explanation of what they are? The HTML quick list will do just that, each element and attribute in HTML is listed with a explanation and of course a example of it’s use. Dive into the HTML quick list as your about to get everything downloaded into your brain!

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