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Hack the CMS with Ajax and Sessions

Here is a technique that has worked for us, but I’m tempted to put this in the Fail category because it’s such bad form. However, what works, works and in this case it’s pretty easy. Take WordPress as an example CMS. You can gain access to its session variables from your own .php code by adding this to the top of your custom php page: 1require_once('../../../wp-load.php');...

Use Flickr to Feed Your Photo Gallery

Many clients want simple slideshows on their websites. It is best to avoid Flash based sliders for various reasons (SEO performance is of paramount importance to us). There are many great javascript based ones out there that degrade gracefully and don’t require any 3rd party plugins.We prefer Jquery based ones. Typically, these javascript sliders load images listed in the html into an array that...