If you are asked to recall your favorite business card, I bet you don’t have an answer for it. No worries, me neither because who notices the generic look for business cards? Fact of the matter is, for many people, their business card is also a promotional tool for them, particularly when they are not attached to any organization – and some of them are really great attention-grabbers.

(Image Source: Beasty Design)

While most of us will fall back on a business card template or the minimalistic style, after going through all the considerations required of the card that will sell your services for you, sometimes it’s good to just let down your hair and have fun with it.

In this post we will show you 15 business cards that are anything but regular or normal. These cards will make you want to play with them.

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Bentply. Richard’s Bentply business card lets you play a paper folding game while learning about the brand, talking about efficiency! (Image Source: Richard C Evans)

Cardapult V2. If you want your business card stand out from the rest, congrats, this Cardapult card is available for purchase. (Image Source: Cardnetics)

Easel. Want your client to keep your business card on their work desk? Give them a reason to. (Image Source: Egil Paulsen)

Frizitka. Let your fashion sense run wild with Frizitka, a hairdresser company. They are definitely having fun with their business cards. (Image Source: Igor Perkusic)

iPhone. Someone’s an iPhone and Facebook fan. One does not simply laugh at this card without touching on it. (Image Source: Beasty Design)

Junpiter Futbol. Sports companies, here’s an idea to steal for your business card. Bravo! (Image Source: Bravo Company)

Krakatua Greeting Card. I doubt people will forget these 3D business cards once they played with it. (Image Source: yienkeat)

Web Design Harlow. I will not be surprised to hear this web design company getting more business. (Image Source: We Are Sweet)

Mais Pilates. While this is certainly an entertaining toy, it also perfectly explains the core benefits of doing Pilates: to develop better posture and flexibility. (Image Source: Marketdata)

Mogibo. Now your potential client is not only going to remember your brand, but also your face for a great time to come. (Image Source: Mogibo)

Gabe Ferreira. Why make a business card when you can just print the brand out? (Image Source: Gabe Ferreira)

Ninja BTL. The only problem with this business card is the receiver will throw it around, for fun! (Image Source: Ninja BTL)

Sparkle Labs. Sparkle Labs just used its electronic kit product to build business cards. Pretty expensive, but it is going to be the most impressive one you would ever receive. Light ‘em up. (Image Source: Sparkle Labs)

Penny Shooter. "Shoot pennies with my business card!" I doubt if saying this will bring me any business but hey, nobody hates a penny shooter. (Image Source: Cardnetics)

Tiny Pants. You don’t need to read the business card to know what this company is delivering. Maximum marketing effectiveness. (Image Source: Bravo Company)

If you have been working with WordPress, you probably already know that all assets like images, stylesheets, themes, and plugins in WordPress are by default, stored under the wp-content directory. But, do you know that we can actually change this folder name into something else, and yet it will still work?

One of the advantages of renaming "wp-content/" is that your website will look less WordPress-ish, while others say that this could even make your site more secure.

In this post, we will show you how to do it.

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Create a New Folder

In this example, we will rename the wp-content folder to assets. Note that after renaming this folder, any activated plugin or theme will be deactivated and will not be listed in their respective pages, since WordPress cannot find them from the default location, wp-content.

Config Modification

We need to make a few modifications to wp-config.php, but, it is better to create a backup of this file before making any change. Just in case something wrong happen, we will be able to restore it with the backup.

First, add the following line before require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php'); (usually located at the very bottom) to tell WordPress that the wp-content has changed to assets.

 define ('WP_CONTENT_FOLDERNAME', 'assets'); 

Then, add this line below to direct WordPress to the new directory path.

 define ('WP_CONTENT_DIR', ABSPATH . WP_CONTENT_FOLDERNAME) ; 

After adding the above line, WordPress will find and list the installed themes and plugins.

But, as you can seen in the theme screenshot (see below) the link remains broken.

To fix this issue, add this line to specify the new directory URL.

 define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/'); define('WP_CONTENT_URL', WP_SITEURL . WP_CONTENT_FOLDERNAME); 

We are done. Now, all the plugins, themes, and any media that we upload will be stored in our new folder.

Must Note!

There are several plugins and themes that do not follow best practices. They specify “wp-content” as the path and url in their code, instead of defining them dynamically. In such cases, the plugins and themes may not function properly. Furthermore, this will also break links to images that already attached in your posts and that are stored in wp-content.

So, this modification should be taken with caution and, it is better done when you just starting your website. Otherwise, it could ruin your website entirely, and there will be tons of things you have to fix.

The ghastly night of Halloween where ghouls and ghosts and zombies roam the streets is almost here! If you haven’t seen it, we recently featured a Halloween resource bundle with plenty of fonts, vectors, tutorials and icons to help you scarify your sites and designs. Need inspiration? How about taking a look at the evolution of horror posters from 1922 to 2009?

To help your desktop get with the party, here is a collection of 19 ghastly (but great) Halloween wallpapers you should be checking out. After that, you can always check out these dark wallpapers or our collection of iOS an Android apps fit for Halloween.

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Halloween Funny. Available in various sizes.

Frankenstein Halloween. Available in 1920×1200.

Witch On A Broom. Available in various sizes.

Happy Spooky Halloween. Available in 1920×1080.

Halloween Midnight Watch. Available in various sizes.

The Scarecrow. Available in various sizes.

Halloween Ritual. Available in various sizes.

Halloween Holiday Castle. Available in various sizes.

Spooky House. Available in various sizes.

Darker Halloween. Available in 1920×1200.

Halloween Scarecrow. Available in various sizes.

Halloween House. Available in various sizes.

Happy Halloween. Available in the following size(s): 800×600, 1024×768, 1152×864, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1280×960, 1366×768, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×900, 1600×1200, 1680x1050m 1920×1200.

Evil Pumpkin. Available in various sizes.

Moonlit Halloween. Available in the following size(s): 800×600, 1024×768, 1152×864, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1280×960, 1366×768, 1400×1050, 1440×900, 1600×900, 1600×1200, 1680x1050m 1920×1200.

Night Of Halloween. Available in 1366×768.

Pumpkin Castle. Available in the following size(s): 640×480, 800×960, 1024×768, 1152×864, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1440×1080, 1600×1200, 2048×1536.

Halloween. Available in the following size(s): 1024×1024,1024×768, 1280×800, 1280×1024, 1440×900, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, 2560×1440.

Dark & Scary. Available in 1920×1200.

Have you been Bitstripped? Bitstrips is the latest fad that is on (or is coming to, hide!) your Facebook feed. If you have friends who like to report every little thing they do e.g. "I’ve cleaned my room (finally), phew", with Bitstrips, they can now deliver this "message" via a comic strip.

Using caricatures of themselves, a Bitstrips user will pull together a comic strip panel – usually a single – depicting them in wacky and funny moments (see "not human until I’ve had my coffee example" above) or just doing everyday stuff. It is a simple idea but one that is going viral. Yet if you’re not amused by Bitstrips, skip ahead to be rid of this.

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What’s Bitstrips?

If you are curious about what Bitstrips is or how it works, we’re saving you the trouble.

At the app page you allow permission for it to use your Facebook profile data (all apps do this, don’t be surprised). Once inside, it’s time to start buiding your avatar. The builder is pretty precise, allowing you to mold the way you look, from what your hairstyle is like, down to the size of your pupils and eye shape.

Then, it is off to create a comic. While you may have little control of the "scene", "situation" or background, you can change parts of your avatar (as in rotating body parts, the facial expression, add dialogue etc), pair up with a friend, and create greeting cards to celebrate the holidays.

Bitstrips will then share your adventures on your behalf to your Facebook profile. And that’s it.

So far, the app that is available on Facebook, iPad, iPhone and Android has at least 10 million monthly users. The Android app has already been downloaded 5 million times and at the time of this writing, Bitstrips is the top free downloaded app on the App Store.

However, not everyone is a fan, so if you are in this group, here’s how you can remove Bitstrips from your feed.

Removing Bitstrips

You can choose to hide it from your feed by clicking on the arrow down button to the right of the image. Choose "Hide all from Bitstrips" to ensure that no other Bitstrips comic will ever grace your feed again.

Alternatively you can block the app right from the page. Go to the app page. If you see this chaotic view, you’re at the right place.

Now look for the word Block at the lower right corner of the page and click it. A prompt will appear asking if you want to block the app, click on Continue.

Congratulations, you have entirely removed Bitstrips from all of your Facebook. Now you won’t see anything posted with Bitstrips.

Don’t worry, this is not permanent. To unblock Bitstrips, click on the Gear Icon (Settings Icon) at the end of the Facebook search bar and click on Account Settings.

Then click on Blocking on the left navigation panel and scroll down to find Block Apps. Look for Bitstrips then click on Unblock next to it, and Bitstrips is back.