Archive for the ‘WordPress Tips’ Category
by James Dunaway on October 10th, 2011
As organizations look to continue pushing their online presence, their websites are likely to see an influx of page tags. These tags can vary from affiliate marketing to web analytics. As the tags stockpile on the site, marketing teams may experience some difficulty keeping up. A tag management system can be used to resolve this issue.
A tag management system helps a company turn the managing of tags over to the marketing team. These systems allow for a managing interface which allows a marketing team to easily keep their obligations fulfilled. Read More
Categories: Blog Statistics, Blogging Tips, Blogging Tools, WordPress Tips
Tags: blogs, tag management, tag words, tags, web site
by Franky Branckaute on July 7th, 2011
With the launch of WordPress 3.2 a new monospace was introduced for the editor. Not everyone likes monospaced fonts though. Justin Tadlock explains how to change the editor font, via a simple addition to your theme’s functions.php.
After applying Justin’s tip, your editor will look like this:
WordPress 3.2 editor with different font
Categories: Linking, WordPress Tips
Tags: justin Tadlock, Tweaks, wordpress, WordPress Tips
by Darnell Clayton on March 24th, 2011
Whenever a major event occurs (such as Apple unveiling the latest iPad or a natural disaster), many bloggers on site set up “live blogs” in order to provide real time coverage (minus the lengthy and formal blog postings of course).
While everyone has their own preference as to how one should setup a live blog, here are a few tips (as well as a couple of tools) for those of you seeking a way to update your readers in real time without using external tools (like Twitter and Cover It Live). Read More
Categories: WordPress Tips
by Franky Branckaute on January 30th, 2011
WordPress.com is a hosted service, which allows you to set up multiple blogs for free, however there are optional paid options which add functionality to your blog. WordPress.com is perfect for a beginner blogger, however many bloggers find that it is to restrictive and looks unprofessional. In this Conor P. explains how to move from WordPress.com to WordPress.org, with the help of some video tutorials.
Visit the tutorial here.
Categories: Linking, WordPress Tips, WordPress Tutorials
Tags: Conor Pendergrast, Moving Domains, Screencasts, Tutorials, wordpress.com, WordPress.org
by Franky Branckaute on January 30th, 2011
Justin Tadlock, of Theme Hybrid fame, has published a new entry describing how to display links to all images sizes within WordPress (or on your attachment pages). The attachment page often is a forgotten area in many a WordPress design.
At Splashpress Media we also made sure to pay extra attention to the attachment page in our redesigns and all our newly designed pages also include an ‘Attachment gallery’ as can be seen in this ForeverGeek post. Click any image in that post or just visit an attachment page:
Justin’s entry explains how to include links to every image size in your designs.
Read Justin’s tutorial here
Categories: Linking, WordPress Tips, WordPress Tutorials
Tags: Attachment, justin Tadlock, Media, WordPress development
by Franky Branckaute on January 19th, 2011
One of the most popular text and code editors for Mac OS X certainly is Panic’s Coda. Sadly Coda isn’t 100% compliant with the WordPress coding standards and neither is TextWrangler.
Luckily not much is needed to make both editors compliant with the WordPress coding standards and in an entry over at Magp.ie Eoin Gallagher, Polldaddy developer, explains how to configure Coda – and TextWrangler – to meet the WordPress coding standards.
Discover how here.
Categories: Linking, WordPress Tips, WordPress Tools
Tags: Coda, Coding Standards, editor, TextWrangler, WordPress Tips
by Darnell Clayton on January 18th, 2011
Despite rumors proclaiming the contrary, WordPress is actually a very secure CMS platform utilized by millions of users around the world.
Unfortunately its immense popularity makes the software a prime target for hackers, similar to how Facebook and Twitter are prime targets since “everyone” is using them.
While there are more advanced measures that users should take when securing your WordPress site, here are the 3 most common habits I see practiced by some WordPress users that may set ones blog up to be hacked. Read More
Categories: WordPress Tips
Tags: Security, wordpress, WordPress security
by Darnell Clayton on January 11th, 2011
When it comes to choosing a WordPress host, many users select freemium hosting companies like WordPress.com (by Automattic)Â or Blog.com due to low risk (at least financially speaking).
While WP.com and Blog.com are great ways to experience WordPress without putting a hole in your wallet, they are also very restrictive on what features (think plugins) you can install upon your site.
For those of you seeking a more flexible solution to WordPress blogging, they may want to check out Blogetery who provides users with the conviences of WP.com without sacrificing too many freedoms. Read More
Categories: WordPress Tips
Tags: wordpress, WordPress Hosting
by Darnell Clayton on January 4th, 2011
If you were to survey the vast majority of WordPress compatible hosting companies, you would find that most (if not all) of them could be classified into one of four different categories.
While each category has its own advantages and disadvantages, users should careful to choose the host that best fits their needs (whether those be financial, security, freedom, etc.) before launching your blog to the world.
Although everyone has their own bias (including yours truly!) over which option is the best, here is a “brief” guide to help those of you new to the world of WordPress, as well as for the many considering adopting it as your preferred platform. Read More
Categories: WordPress Tips
Tags: Hosting, WordPress Hosting
by Darnell Clayton on December 28th, 2010
With 2010 coming to a close and many bloggers reflecting on their top 10 lists, I thought it would be nice to share 4 things I learned about WordPress this year that I wish I knew in 2009.
Granted some of these services didn’t exist in 2009 (as you’ll see below), however many of their alternatives did.
Although there were numerous other things I learned about WordPress ranging from security to various SEO tips, here are the top 3 things that stood out this year to me in 2010. Read More
Categories: WordPress Tips
Tags: Backups, comment spam, Hosting, wordpress
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