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We use WordPress as a Content Management System constantly here at 72 thinking. There are many perks to using WordPress that can help to make your site search engine friendly, as well as really easy to update and maintain. In most cases, if we’re moving the hosting of a client, we just build the new WordPress site in the root folder of the new host, then push the site live when we’re all finish. That’s really nice as we don’t have to worry about there being issues with transferring the site and making sure everything is hooked up properly, as it should be ready to roll out of the gate because we built it right on the platform.

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With social networking continuing to grow, more and more businesses are looking to show their stuff on tools like Facebook, Twitter, etc. Utilizing those tools are great because they’re free, and they can help drive traffic to your website to help bring in potential business. A lot of clients and friends ask us how to setup business pages on Facebook. The process is really easy as long as you know what you’re looking for. So we wanted to take the time to put together this really simple tutorial on setting up a business page on Facebook as well as creating the custom URL for your new page!

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Being that we are on the verge of entering a new year, I felt that this was an ‘on topic’ little tutorial to share! Any developer who utilizes PHP should know that it can help save time, which in turn increases productivity. PHP offers a wide variety of tools to help you to create smart, dynamic website. Here is a little trick to help you to not have to go to every single website you design and develop to manually update the copyright information to the current year. Depending on how you have a site setup, that could be a pretty decent task, especially if you’re not utilizing any sort of global variables.

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For those beginner developers out there working in WordPress, here’s a little trick that you may have not run into yet. If you need to build out a website in WordPress that will load the navigation dynamically, meaning that any pages that are added in the backend of WordPress are automatically placed in the navigation on the front end of the website, there is a nice piece of code that will do that for you. You have the option to edit that code to render out the displayed navigation in almost any way that you’d like, which is a great plus when it comes to having control over a website.

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A couple weeks ago I got an email from Paul of Digital Hand who is located in the UK. Paul had a couple questions to ask us on how we work so he could possibly get some insight from us to better help his client base. If there is only one thing that I have learned from the web community, it is that there are so many truly awesome things out there to help people with questions. So the tutorials on our site is kinda our way of trying to help to give back to the community and maybe us answering a couple questions might be able to help some people out there. Now there are tons and tons of ways to get the job done so our answers may not be someone else’s or even work for someone else. These answers are simply how we do things. And please, if you have any thoughts that you might be able to add please don’t hesitate to comment!

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Using WordPress Custom Fields is actually much easier than one would think. I went to use it a while back for a project and didn’t really have time to work with it so I passed it by. But recently I needed it and was surprised at how easy it is to use it! With one little line of code in your template you can use Custom Fields in WordPress.

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So I’ve just recently started using Twitter. I figured that I better hop on the train before it completely pulls away! Also, I figured that in the future that I would have clients that would want to integrate Twitter into their sites. So if you take a look at toward the bottom right of our site you’ll see our little Twitter feed. Well you should see our Twitter feed. I’ve been noticing on our site as well as other sites that Twitter doesn’t always show up due to their server. So many people are using Twitter now so sometimes it gets slow.

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