Sep
27
Blog platforms are quite simply built for SEO! If you didn’t realise it already, all blog software packages are simple content management systems. In fact they’re so good at CMS, that lots of commercial sites have migrated to blog platforms instead of building on a more traditional CMS platform. One of the reasons for this, is that blog platforms have lots of inbuilt SEO advantages. Just consider the following: Read More
Sep
5
This post covers the brand new multisite/network feature in WordPress 3.0, which was previously called WordPressMU (and was a separate project, the two have now been merged in WordPress 3.0). To follow along you will need to be running WordPress 3.0 or higher.
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Jul
9
One way to add a bit of extra uniqueness to your theme is to include a new default avatar. The standard one we all know and love is the ‘Mystery Man’ avatar as seen below.
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Jul
2
Just an update on our recent activity. As someone pointed out to me just yesterday the blogs have been fairly quiet since May. Well true, but this certainly does not mean that we have been idle, far from it!
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May
13
We are pleased to announce a new plugin in development which should be ready for testing next sometime next week, with a release into the WordPress.org repository soon after. This plugin adds a global sitemap to your WordPress website so that users can easily see all of your content (posts/pages) on a single page. Simply add a Shortcode to a new page (or post), click publish and you have an instant sitemap! Read More
May
11
After reassigning enough posts to categories lately (on several different blogs!) I had an idea for a plugin to speed things up. Say you have a load of posts that you quickly need to make sure are assigned to a category, it is pretty tedious to have to cycle through all the posts and check that each post you are interested in is assigned properly. You can’t speed things up by filtering by category as this would not show the posts that aren’t included – which is what you are checking for in the first place! Darn.. Read More
May
10
At the moment we are experimenting with the new features of WordPress 3.0 beta 2. These are going to bring a whole new wave of themes/plugins over the next several months and beyond; it is unlikely to happen over night.
In the meantime we are working hard to come up with some useful things our users can start working with in the short term. We have some plugins that were in development a while ago, under another site which we are considering resurrecting and updating for the WordPress 3.0 release. The plugin names were: Read More
May
8
There are many ways to contribute to WordPress such as adding to the Codex documentation, participating in the support forums, testing, bug reports and so on.. But for programmers, such as myself, there is nothing more satisfying than being able to contribute to the WordPress core code. The way the WordPress development process is structured allows for anyone with decent PHP programming skills to have a go at tackling some WordPress coding. Just download the latest beta and start coding! Read More
May
8
How many times have you added or searched for a WordPress plugin direct from the admin area of your blog? Well this is a great new feature which has been added to WordPress. As well as themes, plugins can now be installed directly from the admin dashboard. No more do you have the install cycle of download, unpack, upload, and activate of themes/plugins (you can still do it this way of course if you wish)! Read More
