Author: Aurovrata V.
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Unleashing WP Twenty14 RHS
WordPress latest default theme,TwentyFourteen was released with version 3.8. It is a magazine theme which was long awaited and has probably been the most popular theme so far. However, it is also called a flawed beauty due to the small problems that plague its various functionality such as the lack of configuration options for its…
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WordPress theme development
At Syllogic we understand the need to have a website that is elegant and yet unique, to ensure that our client’s sites have a look & feel that is fresh and distinct from their competition. However, theme design is probably the most time and energy consuming web-deveopment, so how do we reconcile the above requirement…
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Quick dirty forms, payment, registration, contact…
Recently we were asked to come up with the most cost effective way to create a registration form with a online payment functionality. Short of actually creating a new site and building in a registration form with some existing plugin functionality, it seemed to be quite a challenge. There is of course the great online…
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Dynamic Menus
There are many good tutorials to build custom menus for logged in/logged out users, see also our own post on the ajax login menu. There are more complex approaches in order to customise the individual menu items using a the wordpress Walker class. An excellent review of a custom walker can be found on the…
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Google Trends Comparisons
This work is the result of a recent request by a client to be able to measure the number of Java developers in India. Although there are other methods that can be used to evaluate this number, short of a national survey, all methods are only estimates with inherent errors which are difficult to measure.…
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Google Trends, comparing monkeys and bananas
Google is one tremendous galaxy of tools, services and most importantly data. Core to Google is of course its search engine. While most people seek to information out there and Google’s search engine ranks and optimises the result to match the search, there is a wealth of other information that Google collects from its search engine…
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Managing a development and live site
How to manage a development site in parallel to a live site and both being accessible online.
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Going multi-lingual with Polylang
Recently a client requested to introduce a second language section embedded within the default language site. The default being English and the new language being requested being Hindi, a North Indian language using the Devanagari script. This was an interesting challenge and we set about to break new grounds in our little enterprise. There are…
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Do we share molecules with Magellan?
There is a question that gives rise to a lot of debate which is “what are the odds that we breath, eat, drink molecules of matter that have gone through someone else before?” Here is a correct approach to the question, but a little confusing the way it is presented. The reasoning is quite simple:…
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What is the Business Intelligence
What is Business Intelligence? The general understanding of Business Intelligence is the process by which data collected by an enterprise (sales, purchases, production, etc) is compiled into summary reports for the management and executive leaders to enable to understand the overall status of their business. This data is usually stored in databases, although smaller enterprises…