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Periodically I will add posts to this blog covering topics which affect web technologies, privacy and mobile. These are opinion subjects and therefore comments and discussions are welcome. I am happy to change my opinion so I have as open a mind as possible. Please join in!

Free HTML5 Cheat Sheet

Free HTML5 Cheat Sheet

It’s not often you can find detailed advice or guidance for free. So I was really pleased when a contact of mine pointed in the direction of this free HTML5 Cheat Sheet. You can download this using the link below. It would be worth either printing it off or setting it as your desktop background to enable you to quick-reference HTML5 Tags during your web development or if you’re getting to grips with our free HTML5 Tutorials. What makes a…

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Get Home Page ID in WordPress Multisite

Get Home Page ID in WordPress Multisite

Just quick blog post this time! I have been working on a huge WordPress Multisite website today and am in the process of creating a plugin for the client which needed to work on all sub-sites in that Multisite install. Needed a Custom Field from a Specific Page Hooking into custom fields I needed to grab the field from the home page (as there was no need to set the key on any of the subsequent pages). As there are…

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Free WordPress Plugins to Supercharge Your Website Speed

Free WordPress Plugins to Supercharge Your Website Speed

Here at The Free Tutorial Centre we have been on a mission to make the site quicker. As we now get on average more than 400 visitors a day during the week (you seem to take the weekends off – I don’t blame you for that) we want to provide the quickest performance we can get out of our service. So after much experimentation, I’m going to let you know the free WordPress plugins we actually use here (others are…

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FileZilla – How to Fix ‘no document element found at offset’ Error

FileZilla – How to Fix ‘no document element found at offset’ Error

Just a quick blog post as I start the weekend. I’m having all this weekend off as I’ll be putting the finishing touches to our new JavaScript course over the next week! Funny FileZilla Error I’ve used FileZilla (an FTP Program) for years with building the number of web projets I do. Even with CMS Sites like this one, image optimisation and website speed tweaks often involve direct interaction with web space. So it was odd that today I came…

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Add Post Categories Under Posts in WordPress

Add Post Categories Under Posts in WordPress

Happy weekend to you all! Ahead of adding another free tutorial this weekend I wanted to improve my WordPress back office. The library of Tutorials is getting bigger and currently I have to go into posts and filter them by post type to list the individual categories. Which got me thinking: can I add post categories under ‘Post’ on the left-hand side in admin?. Being in SEO I managed to quickly find the answer to my question on this thread…

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EU Cookie Law and Content Blocking

EU Cookie Law and Content Blocking

I wasn’t originally going to add a blog to this site, but there are so many developments and contraversial issues cropping up now that I think periodically I will add non-tutorial content here too. The reason this kick-started was the recent announcement that iOS9 includes content blocking in the mobile Safari browser. Before digging more into this, I want to discuss an inconsistency in how people think. Warning: these are my opinions and open to discussion (comments are welcome!) We…

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