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WordPress: Exclude A Category From The Front Page Without Breaking Pagingation

In order to exclude a category from the list of posts that appear on your homepage, you can use the WordPress function query_posts(). query_posts() is a way to alter the main query that WordPress uses to display posts. It does this by putting the main query to one side, and replacing it with a new query. However, it is up to you to handle pagination when using query_posts or you will only show the first page of posts for every page.

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Comic Books/Music

CZARFACE Album Artwork and Action Figure

The new album CZARFACE is a collaboration between Inspectah Deck with 7L & Esoteric. This is definitely one of the best hip-hop albums of 2013 but what really stood out for me was the artwork for CZARFACE. The album cover for CZARFACE is awesome! It looks like one of those old-school retro comic books from the 50s.

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Google/News & Rants

Canada is still left out of the Google Play Music Party

My current frustration has to do with Google's Google Play Music Service. Although the service has been available in the US for quite some time, it is still not available to Canadians! The service is also available in the UK and various European countries but when you try to access the service from Canada, you get redirected to... Keep Reading

All That's Awesome/Movies

Random Iron Man pictures from the web

It's no secret that iron man is one of my all-time favorite characters (he comes third after Wolverine and Batman). I was bored and wanted to change my background picture. So, I started looking for random Iron Man images from the web. Here are the various images that I found below. My favorite is the first picture of Iron Man's mask below. It is currently being used as the wallpaper on my Android phone.

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How to Query Custom Parameters in WordPress

One of the things that makes developing on WordPress so fun is that it is such a simple platform. A little while back, I had to add custom query parameters for a WordPress project. I then re-used the same approach in my portfolio section to breakdown my projects by category. So, how do you query custom parameters in WordPress?

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How to fix Google Play App (APK) upload failures

After releasing an initial version of my app on Google Play, I made a minor update and needed to release a new version of the app. I made the necessary changes and updated my app’s version in AndroidManifest.xml from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 since the update was a very minor update. I then tried re-submitting my APK […] Keep Reading