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A Google Web Fonts Gotcha

If you’re working with Google Web Fonts there’s something you should watch out for. I was working with one of my favorite fonts Open Sans and the 300 weight version looked perfect on my computer while too thin on my friend’s. I realized that I had the Open Sans font installed on my Mac, so disabling the font (or deleting it) helped me look at the website the same way my friend...

Removing YouTube and Vimeo Shortcodes in WordPress

Quick Tip! If you’ve been using WordPress for a long time you might still be locked in to using a video embed plugin like I was a few hours ago. Yes plugins are great, but these days it’s part of the WordPress core. So how do you get rid of those YouTube and Vimeo shortcodes? I haven’t found an easy way to do it and yes I’m still frustrated with the shortcodes concept in...

Tweet Button Showing Zero Count

I came across this issue a few days ago and started looking for solutions. Didn’t find too many decent ones, which is why I’m writing this post. I’ve implemented Twitter’s Tweet Button on Foller.me last week and noticed that it always shows 0 count, despiting the fact that the page has been tweeted 3-4 times. My friends suggested to wait a while, but that didn’t help...