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How to Add Buttons in WordPress Without Using Shortcodes

Most people are not familiar with HTML/CSS. This is why WordPress plugins are so useful for adding tables or buttons. There are lots of plugins out there which allow you to add buttons to your posts and pages using shortcodes. But those shortcodes are difficult to remember and hard to configure. In this article, we will show you how to add buttons in WordPress without using shortcodes. First thing you need to do is install and activate the Forget About Shortcode Buttons plugin. Please note that this plugin requires WordPress 3.9 or higher. If you are using an older version, then you need to update WordPress to use this plugin. Once you have activated the plugin, simply create a new post or edit an existing one, and …

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How to Add Buttons in WordPress Without Using Shortcodes

10 Useful PHP Libraries and Classes

1. Unirest UniRest is a collection of light weight HTTP Request Client Libraries for many languages including Node, Ruby, PHP, Java, Python, Objective C, .Net and Windows 8. It has support for GET, POST, PUT, UPDATE and DELETE operations.

2. JqmPhp jqmPhp is a open source package of PHP classes that allow the creation of HTML files for use with jQuery Mobile Framework. All classes in the jqmPhp package can be converted to string and printed with an echo function.

3. PhpFastCache phpFastCache is an open source high performing PHP caching library which makes your website runs smooth on any shared hosting. it has support for multiple caching methods such as apc, memcache, memcached, wincache, files, pdo and mpdo. It is the distributed object caching system which is intended for use…

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10 Useful PHP Libraries and Classes

Moonviews

The Hackers Who Recovered NASA’s Lost Lunar Photos, Wired “Sitting incongruously among the hangars and laboratories of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley is the squat facade of an old McDonald’s. You won’t get a burger there, though-its cash registers and soft-serve machines have given way to old tape drives and modern computers run by a rogue team of hacker engineers who’ve rechristened the place McMoon’s. These self-described techno-archaeologists have been on a mission to recover and digitize forgotten photos taken in the ’60s by a quintet of scuttled lunar satellites. The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Progject has since 2007 brought some 2,000 pictures back from 1,500 analog data tapes. They contain the first high-resolution photographs ever taken from behind the lunar horizon…

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Moonviews

Google’s Revamped Gmail Could Take Encryption Mainstream

Illustration: WIRED Encryption is the best way to protect your online communications from the prying eyes of the National Security Agency. So says NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The rub is that email encryption systems like PGP – short for Pretty Good Privacy – are a real pain for people to use, especially if they’re not steeped in the minutiae of computing. That means few people use PGP, and those who do are in danger of using it incorrectly. But it looks like Google is trying to change that. According to Venture Beat, the search giant working to create a new version of Gmail that makes PGP encryption far easier to use. Google didn’t respond to our request for comment on the story, and even if …

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