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Everyone tries to deny it, but when it comes to celebrity gossip, we can’t help but indulge.  At eROI we have been able to enjoy our celebrity guilty pleasure for months now thanks to an opportunity to partner with No Soap Radio Entertainment to help bring their creation, Starlicious, to life online. Do you know which Oscar-winning actress briefly lived in an NYC homeless shelter?  We do!

Starlicious is an original online game show combining the competitive and addictive nature of Jeopardy-style trivia with the subject matter of Access Hollywood and US Weekly.  We were tasked with designing and developing the online environment in which viewers could watch each of the 10 episodes, shown over the 12 week season.

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After spending some time working with Magento (an open-source ecommerce platform that’s been on the development scene for a few years now), I have determined that what their documentation really needs is a WordPress-esque “Template Tags” area.

When you’re just starting out with a new platform, documentation is invaluable, and the documentation for Magento seems woefully lacking in terms of front-end development. (If you have a favorite resource, I’d love to hear about it!)

Here are some tips / shortcuts / code snippets I’ve found useful; maybe they’ll be helpful to new Magento developers as well.

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Like most cool technologies, this WordPress plugin was developed out of necessity for a client project. In a nutshell it works very similar to the way sifr works only without involving flash in the process. Instead, the plugin relies on php and the GD graphics library to dynamically replace html tags with images of true type typography.  As it is heavily inspired by the Signwriter drupal module, it is clearly not a novel method, however, in the spirit of open source it seemed natural to port the functionality to WordPress.

In brief, once installed, the plugin will act automatically, relying on CSS classes to target content. Typography styles are defined using a simple rule syntax not at all unlike CSS allowing for versatility and flexability all from within the wordpress dashboard. Since it is a server-side technology, the method is truly cross-platform and allows license-burdened fonts to be secured to prevent download.

Download the plugin here.

I’m getting ready to build a sweet new WordPress site, and to prepare I decided to create a little bookmarks folder for all the plugins I use on every single WordPress install.  In the folder I put links to all the WordPress plugins I use on every site, so I can right-click on the folder (which I named “WP Plugins XTREME”)  and select ‘Open All in Tabs’ and then start downloading the latest versions of them all in one swoop.

I know I already wrote a post listing ‘plugins every WordPress site should have‘ but there were quite a few I didn’t mention – just because I personally like the plugin and use it every time doesn’t mean it works for everybody in every situation.  But I love these SO much and I’m just worried that some poor WordPress developer doesn’t know about them, so what else can I do but write about more plugins?

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