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Display Recent Posts outside the WordPress

How to import recent post from your internal blog to your website without any difficulties.
First you need to create wp-latest-blogs.php file where you include wp-load.php for your wp blog.

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Initial declaration in CSS

html,body,ul,nav,header,li,a{margin:0;padding:0;}
img{border:0;}
a{text-decoration: none;}
html,body{ font: 62.5% 'Georgia','Verdana',san-serif;}

HTML5 and all browsers compatibility

Shims, Shivs and Polyfills

Shims and shivs are small libraries that fill gaps in a platform

Mainly used when API changes and cause compatibility issues
The older API can still be supported by a thin compatibility layer on top of the newer code

Polyfills are similar concept to shims/shivs

They provide fallback functionality for features still not implemented natively in the browser
When the user update their browser they will have the same experience, but use native implementation

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Useful predefined PHP functions

print_r(get_defined_vars());

get_defined_vars — Returns an array of all defined variables

print_r(get_defined_functions());

get_defined_functions — Returns an array of all defined functions

You should be careful about the location in the code, because if you are inside a function it will work only for this function.

print_r(get_defined_constants());

get_defined_constants – Returns list all defined constants with their respective values

print_r(get_declared_classes());

get_declared_classes – Returns list all declared classes

print_r(memory_get_usage());

memory_get_usage — Returns the amount of memory allocated to PHP

To create a plugin, all you need to do is create a folder and then create a single file. First go to the wp-content/plugins folder, and create a new folder named myPlugin. Inside this new folder, create a file named myPlugin.php. Open the file in a text editor, and paste the following information in it:

You can go into the back end to activate your plugin. Of course, this plugin doesn’t do anything, but you can add functionality by yourself.
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Responsive design for all browsers and older versions of IE

If your task is to make your CSS media queries to work in most browsers and older versions of IE (7-8), all you need to do is to include Polyfills. Polyfills are js and you can download them from https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-Browser-Polyfills. I can recommend you Respond by Scott Jehl.

Show google maps from address

If you have for a task to show google maps location using just the address the following script should help you.
Here is the HTML code



	Boulevard Mansions, Borough Road, SE1, United Kingdom

For Google Maps visualization we will use -> Google Maps Javascript API v3:

We will use the predefined address from the div with id=”mapsaddress” and will get the coordinates needed for Google Maps API. Don’t forget to use your own google map key!

You can also check the working DEMO.