Introducing the WordPress Image Rotator Widget

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DK New Media has had this WordPress plugin on the back-burner for some time. The demand for a simple, quality image rotator plugin was high not only for our clients, but also the WordPress community. The plugins I had found that promised to do what we needed were either broken or did not work at all. So we made our own. The first version was ugly, and consequently never added to the WordPress Plugin Repository. Aesthetics were not the only … Continue reading

WordPress: Add a Top Message Bar

WordPress Top Bar

With the new site, I’d been looking for a top bar for WordPress for quite some time. Our last theme design actually had an entire section that could be pulled down that advertised our email subscription. This increased the number of subscribers so significantly that I incorporated the subscribe field directly into the header of the theme. Now I just wanted a top bar to keep readers up to date on any key messages we wanted to remind them about… … Continue reading

How much is $1,000 in Apple Money? 8 days left!

We have 32 entries in the $1,000 giveaway contest and 8 days left. Those are pretty good odds for winning $1,000! It’s $200 away from winning an Apple iMac. It’s like winning $400 cash and an Apple Mac Mini. It’s like winning $600 cash and an Apple iPhone. It’s like winning $700 cash and an Apple iPod Touch or an AppleTV. It’s like winning $850 cash and an Apple iPod Nano. What are you waiting for? You have 8 days … Continue reading

Check out this Contest: Win an iMac from DevDad!

Recently I’ve been paying a little more attention to how many contests and how good they are, especially since my own $1,000 giveaway is almost here (just need a few more sponsors!). Tonight I happened across the Stay At Home Dad iMac Give-Away. This contest is well done. It has a fantastic prize, great pictures, and a detailed list of requirements to join the contest – each promoting the blog and the sponsor. Mike put together a great package – … Continue reading