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• Vintage sci-fi design revealing our inner nerd
• Cool footer design by Tyler Gross
• More on our WordPress and LemonStand development
• Detailed Portfolio

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Recent studies have show that it a good thing in terms of engagement with your fans.

Check out this new Mesh article for a few last minute tips:

http://wearemesh.com/2012/03/28/facebook-timeline-mesh-social-media-marketing-has-got-your-back/

This plugin creates a user-friendly slide management interface in the WordPress backend as well as provides template tags that can be used in any theme to load the slides’ information into a jQuery slider of your choice.

This plugin is ideal for theme developers who need to provide their clients an easy-to-use interface for managing slider content.

IMPORTANT: This plugin is not intended to be plug and play and is intended for theme developers with at least some basic WordPress and JavaScript/jQuery experience.

Installing the plugin

1. Download the plugin via your WordPress admin interface or from the WordPress.org plugin directory here
2. Upload “slider_admin.php” to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory
3. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress
4. Configure the plugin in the “Settings” menu.
5. Setup your slider by editting the page specified in in the plugin settings.
6. Implement the template tags. See example below.

Adding a slider to your theme

<!--?php 
 
$the_slides = fourty_slider_get_slides(); //returns an array of arrays filled with each slide's info.
 
$slide_n=0;
 
//loop through each slide and echo it's info
foreach($the_slides as $cur_slide){
 
	//get the slide's image
	echo '<img src="' . $cur_slide['image'] . '" ?-->';
 
	//get the slide's title
	echo $cur_slide['title'];
 
	//get the slide's caption
	echo $cur_slide['caption'];
 
	//get the slide's link
	echo $cur_slide['link'];
 
	//this echoes the indicators onto each slide with a class for the current slide's indicator
	for($n=0; $n

Where did Lobot come from?

We are admitted Star Wars fans. Lobot appeared in Episode V — Check him out.

“Lobot’s not the chatty type, but he sure is loyal. And great with computers!” ―Lando Calrissian

By default your fan page address will look something like this one for our friends at Signature Home Comfort:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Signature-Home-Comfort-Plumbing-Heating-and-Air-Conditioning/321453010069

Nice, huh? No worries, though… just like for your own personal FB profile, you can create a short name for your page. The only requirement is that you have at least 25 fans.

To create a Facebook Fan Page Short URL

1. Go to http://facebook.com/username
2. Select the page you are wanting to apply the short name
3. Enter the name and click Check Availability

If all goes well, that should be it. Now your Facebook link will look nice in your emails and business cards.