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Without a doubt, JavaScript is one of the most versatile, effective and simple languages used for high-end functionality and user experience in websites. It offers many benefits, including calculation data on web pages, incorporating screen visual effects for smooth processing and extended functionality to websites designed with different scripting languages, to name a few.

Since January of 2014 we have been building a successful partnership with StartupCommons (a member of GrowVC group) – a global, non-profit, developing startup ecosystems with shared platforms, knowledge and data, to help create & accelerate growth in efficient and transparent way.

Have you ever been in need to permanently redirect traffic from HTTPS to HTTP? There are many cases when you may need it – the most popular one is when your content is indexed by search engines and you don’t want the HTTPS version to appear there.

While working with a variety of WordPress custom themes and building sites through WordPress system, we are often asked how to change the small text titles on the page. For example the call-center number is put on the top of the page and it has just changed, or the footer has an address or link to social networks.

One of our good friends and clients asked us if we can duplicate a “magic” visual effect on a mouse move from a flash example to his HTML site. The effect shows shine stars when you move the mouse over some page elements. So we thought it would be nice to create such a plugin and share it with the public.

Custom Post Types, announced in WordPress 3.0, boosted the popularity to WordPress sites among clients and developers in 2010. WordPress is quite easy for newbies in web to use, and it’s very simple and self-explanatory for content editors. With Custom Post Types we can improve standard functionality in times and add more sections.

During the last few weeks, we’ve found that a few of our clients’ sites are infected with malicious javascript code – code which appeared to be the result of a virus. The virus behaviour is similar to the Gumblar virus. Here is a short summary of what this virus does.

With this article, we continue to share our experience of implementing websites with free popular engines like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla etc. After delivering hundreds of such projects to our clients, we have amassed a number of tips/solutions which we think may be useful for other developers or clients.

IMPORTANT: This article was written for WordPress sites using versions 2.1 to 2.7. Starting from WordPress 2.8 this issue has been resolved in WordPress cor