Build Your List with Squeeze Theme
WordPress is most widely known as a popular blogging platform, but it is actually a full-featured content management system. This means that you can use it to power a wide range of different websites. For marketing purposes, you may want to use it for a so-called “squeeze page.” Approaching this specific application is the appropriately named [...] Build Your List with Squeeze Theme A selection of e-books to help you improve as a blogger. Find out more at www.bloggingtips.com/books/
Blogging Tips (13 hours ago)
Manage Comments From Your Windows or Linux Desktop
Comments form a very integral part of any blog to generate communication and spark discussions. As a WordPress blog user, managing comments and replying to them is very easy, however, what if you can manage and reply to comments from your desktop? WP Comments Notifier is a open source application written in QT/C++ for Linux and Windows, which will allow you to manage new comments and reply to them from your desktop. In addition to that, it will also allow you to edit, spam or delete the comments. This app wil..
Weblog Tools Collection (2 days ago)
WordPress Theme Releases for 03/07
Turquoise The Turquoise Theme is a simple free WordPress Theme 980px wide with 3 Sidebars and an Option Page to populate the Footer. One Sidebar is on the right side optimized for Adsense 250px Ads. Two Sidebars are on top of the postings and below the Posting. Good for 468px Ads. Greener Side Smell the fresh cut grass and feel the butterflies flutter past your face… It's summer year round with this eye-catching fixed width two-column design. Wordsmith Blog Two column, brown theme. Choose background col..
Weblog Tools Collection (2 days ago)
Notify Unconfirmed Subscribers Updated
For the past 8 months I have been receiving requests to update the Notify Unconfirmed Subscribers plugin , since it stopped working for users . Frankly, I never really found the time to do it, but as the requests piled up, I decided to set some time aside and update the plugin. So if you have been having problems with NUS, update to the latest version (1.3.0) and the issues should be solved. Do let me know if you have any problems with the latest update. A few notes: Support for Old FeedBurner accounts has be..
Weblog Tools Collection (4 days ago)
Open an Affiliate Store with WP Shopping Pages
WordPress can be used for so much more than “just” a simple blog. It is a full content management system, which means that it can power just about any website that you’d like. In fact, through the use of customizations, theme templates, and plug-ins, you can convert a WordPress installation into anything your heart desires. If [...] Open an Affiliate Store with WP Shopping Pages A selection of e-books to help you improve as a blogger. Find out more at www.bloggingtips.com/books/
Blogging Tips (4 days ago)
WordPress Plugin Releases for 03/05
New Plugins Wordpress External Cron Allows you to setup a cron to fetch any page on the server PuSHPress This plugin adds PubSubHubbub ( PuSH ) support to your WordPress powered site. The main difference between this plugin and others is that it includes the hub features of PuSH, built right in. This means the updates will be sent directly from WordPress to your PuSH subscribers. Block Bad Queries Protect WordPress Against Malicious URL Requests Image Space Media The ISM plugin optimizes your Wordpress blog f..
Weblog Tools Collection (5 days ago)
WordPress Theme Releases for 03/03
Light Folio Light Folio is a clean clean and light theme with a combination black and white color. CleanTech CleanTech is a clean, two column and elegant theme with support for threaded comments designed to focus your content. Ultima This is a 2-column, soft-colored, rounded theme that totally aims at content and nothing else.
Weblog Tools Collection (7 days ago)
Woo Your Readers with Headlines Premium WordPress Theme
Are you looking for an eye-catching new WordPress theme? One of the hotter trends is recent memory is to go with the magazine style layout and Headlines by WooThemes continues with this trend by adding a series of requested features. The magazine style layout is a great option for all sorts of different WordPress sites, whether [...] Woo Your Readers with Headlines Premium WordPress Theme A selection of e-books to help you improve as a blogger. Find out more at www.bloggingtips.com/books/
Blogging Tips (8 days ago)
Bookmarklet to Quickly Access WordPress Admin Menu
There are times when I have wanted to install a plugin on my blog. The usual process included loading the admin dashboard and going to the install plugin page, or bookmarking the install plugin page and then navigating to it using that. Now I also want to access another feature in the admin dashboard, so I go ahead and bookmark it. Bookmarking pages is definitely a good way to quickly jump to certain pages, however, it is not exactly productive. That was until I came across an excellent bookmarklet , which wi..
Weblog Tools Collection (9 days ago)
WordPress Plugin Releases for 03/01
New Plugins 123 Flash Chat 123 Flash Chat WordPress Plugin can be used to create your own chat room in WordPress. It allows you to insert chat room to your sidebar, with either a lite chat client or a link to standard chat client in popup mod. And you can define the width and height of 123 Flash Chat as well as its skin & language. The chat room displays a “hosted by 123flashchat.com free of charge” message. Asynchronous Widgets Allows you to have any registered widget on your WordPress.org-powere..
Weblog Tools Collection (9 days ago)
Matt Mullenweg’s Blog Makes You Smile
WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg’s primary blog has many instances which will make you smile. With my below par internet connection, it takes a bit of time for Matt’s blog to load (Matt himself says the site’s spring design is for the high-bandwidth and the open-minded) but the visit is worth it. This post enumerates some [...] Matt Mullenweg’s Blog Makes You Smile A selection of e-books to help you improve as a blogger. Find out more at www.bloggingtips.com/books/
Blogging Tips (11 days ago)
WordPress Theme Releases for 02/27
DarkMood The DarkMood Theme is a free dark greenish theme 980px wide with two Sidebars and an Option Page to populate the Footer. Expressivo Expressivo is a three-column theme with two righthand sidebars – going to a single sidebar on single posts and pages. With Cufon embedded fonts for post titles, threaded and paged comments – you can also replace the header completely with your own image. Bright Light Bright Light is a two columns, fluid width WordPress theme with support for custom top naviga..
Weblog Tools Collection (11 days ago)
BuddyPress anyone?
By now you have surely read the news of the release of BudyPress 1.2 (which now will work with single WordPress.org blogs, previously limited to WordPress MU) and this dev blog announcement from Jane last evening about another plugin Andy wrote that lets you use your present theme with BuddyPress. I have always been of the opinion that this blog, its content, its collection of authors and most of all, its community of readers, is a prime candidate for BuddyPress. Having a common signup between comments, ratin..
Weblog Tools Collection (11 days ago)
BuddyPress for One (and All!)
Back in April of last year, Matt posted here on the dev blog about the release of BuddyPress 1.0, a plugin that adds a social networking layer to an installation of WordPress MU. Many people were excited about the idea, but were unable to experiment with BuddyPress because they ran single installations of WordPress rather than the multi-site WordPress MU. To those people, good news! A little over a week ago Andy Peatling, founder and lead developer of BuddyPress, announced the release of BuddyPress 1.2 , whic..
WordPress Development Blog (12 days ago)
Passing Parameters as Variables vs Passing Parameters as An Array
Improvisation is the name of the game, and we tend to do a lot of it with plugins and themes. In that process we tend to modify functions by adding more variables to incorporate changes in them. However, unlike most of the other languages, PHP allows users to set default values for variables passed to a method too. As a developer when you start out coding, you have a certain number of things a function will require in order for it to work, some may be optional too, so you set out to create a method signature ..
Weblog Tools Collection (13 days ago)
WordPress Plugin Releases for 02/25
New Plugins Flickr Digest A simple to use WordPress plugin based on Flickr API which digests all your photos posted in last X days in a single post periodically. Feed Thumbnails This plugin simply adds your post thumbnails to your RSS feed as enclosures. Nothing else to it. Simple Twitter Connect Simple Twitter Connect makes it easy to integrate your site with Twitter, in a wholly modular way. Updated Plugins Hikari Email & URL Obfuscator Hikari Email & URL Obfuscator plugin obfuscates emails and URL links, t..
Weblog Tools Collection (13 days ago)
Colorful Premium Themes from Wobzy
If you want to stand out from the crowd, you’ll want your WordPress blog to feature an eye-catching and visually-appealing theme. There are many different templates out there on the Internet, but some of the most attractive are those offered by Wobzy.com. There is no shortage of style here. Browsing through the Library Unlike some other sites [...] Colorful Premium Themes from Wobzy A selection of e-books to help you improve as a blogger. Find out more at www.bloggingtips.com/books/
Blogging Tips (15 days ago)
Menus, the Merge, and a Patch Sprint!
A Report from the 3.0 Development Cycle Menus There's been a flurry of blog posts about the integration of the WooThemes Custom Navigation into WordPress core, so I thought it was time we posted the official word. For 3.0, the main user-facing feature we wanted to include was a better site menu management system. Currently, dealing with menus is clunky, using Page IDs or in some cases categories, if a theme uses categories instead of pages for the menu. We wanted a menu system that had the drag and drop ease ..
WordPress Development Blog (15 days ago)
WordPress Theme Releases for 02/23
Presenter Presenter is a child theme for the Hybrid theme framework . Presenter gives you a quick way to show your portfolio or services with few elements and easy customization from the back-end. Neat Theme Two column, gravatar ready theme with a featured section and theme options. Widget Ready, with four position widget. 42k All major components are user changeable, be that colors, sizes or layouts.The theme works perfectly out of the box, or you can change things around to suit your needs via the extremely..
Weblog Tools Collection (15 days ago)
WordPress Plugin Developer Day, March 1st
About a month ago I was augmenting a client site with some added functionality that, while technically out of scope, I was able to add quickly thanks to a plugin. For whatever reason on this particular instance, I was really struck by how much value I was able to add to a client site thanks to that plugin. There was relatively little effort on my part to make the client happy due to a significant level of effort by the developer that built the plugin. Regardless, it didn't cost me, or my client anything more..
Weblog Tools Collection (15 days ago)
Kidblogger Carl Ocab Offers Ultimate Blogging Theme
One of the most successful bloggers on the Internet today also happens to be one of the youngest. Known widely as Kidblogger, Carl Ocab developed what he believes to be one of the most amazing Wordpress themes too. The Ultimate Blogging Theme caters specifically to people aiming to blog as a profession, maximizing their advertising [...] Kidblogger Carl Ocab Offers Ultimate Blogging Theme A selection of e-books to help you improve as a blogger. Find out more at www.bloggingtips.com/books/
Blogging Tips (15 days ago)
Take a Minute to Fix your TweetMeme, Now.
TweetMeme is a hugely popular plug-in because it is so easy to use. It is easy for you to install and easy for your readers to use to retweet your posts. It may be too easy because so many people just install it and never look at the options available to them. Here is the Issue When [...] Take a Minute to Fix your TweetMeme, Now. A selection of e-books to help you improve as a blogger. Find out more at www.bloggingtips.com/books/
Blogging Tips (16 days ago)
WordPress Plugin Releases for 02/21
New Plugins Mloovi Translate Widget The Mloovi widget allows you to easily add links to 52 different language versions of your blog and RSS feeds. Online Backup The plugin allows online backup as well as email backups both on demand and scheduled. Put your backups on auto pilot with 50 MiB of free space and encryption. Save time and protect your blog from lost info. You will need to register for a free account . WP Comment Pages Your users can link directly to an interesting comment, instead of the whole arti..
Weblog Tools Collection (17 days ago)
Footer Stuff Allows You To Seamlessly Add Content to Themes
The biggest reason many of us require to edit themes is to add JavaScript libraries, CSS codes or analytics tracking code. However, the problem with editing themes is that you will lose all your customization when you decide to change your theme or redesign it. Most analytics software do provide users with plugins to insert code into themes, but why use plugins to insert simple HTML code into your theme? I have been using a very useful plugin called Footer Stuff ( WP repo link ) which allows me to add code to..
Weblog Tools Collection (18 days ago)
WordPress On The Go
I like to moderate comments when I'm waiting for something: a checkout clerk to help me, the dentist to call me back to the office, a soy chai to be made. I don't lug my laptop everywhere I go,* so I love it that we have mobile apps that make this possible. I don't know of any other blogging platform that has mobile apps for iPhone, Android and Blackberry. Do you? The iPhone app is up to version 2.2 (note that iPhone app version numbers do not correlate to WordPress core versions, due to separate dev cycles),..
WordPress Development Blog (21 days ago)
Customize Your WordPress Blog with Thesis Theme
WordPress continues to be one of the most popular blogging platforms, but you don’t want your blog to look like everyone else’s. To aid you in your search for the right theme, we’re kicking off a new series of posts here on Blogging Tips that will highlight some of the best WordPress templates on the [...] Customize Your WordPress Blog with Thesis Theme A selection of e-books to help you improve as a blogger. Find out more at www.bloggingtips.com/books/
Blogging Tips (22 days ago)
WordPress 2.9.2
Thomas Mackenzie alerted us to a problem where logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash, you should upgrade to 2.9.2 . As always, you can visit the Tools->Upgrade menu to upgrade.
WordPress Development Blog (23 days ago)
WordPress Foundation
It is with extremely great pleasure that I point you to the first post at the new WordPress Foundation site . Not only am I excited about the things that will happen under the auspices of the Foundation, I'm excited to see a site running the 3.0 development version and the nascent theme called 2010 . Go check it out for yourself.
WordPress Development Blog (48 days ago)
Do we need an alternative to WordPress?
Those of you who read BloggingTips regularly will know that I a huge fan of WordPress. I’m a bit of a WordPress fanatic. In fact, I’d go as far as saying I’m a bit of a snob about it because I no longer even consider any other script when starting a new blog. And 99% [...] Do we need an alternative to WordPress? A selection of e-books to help you improve as a blogger. Find out more at www.bloggingtips.com/books/
Blogging Tips (51 days ago)
2010 Open Source Design Plans
2010 is the year we dive into open source design. We've dipped our toes in this pool before (icon contest, graphic design component for Trac tickets, header refresh contest, etc.), but this year we're going to cannonball and make a big splash. Here's what you need to know if you want to get involved. A list for all seasons. Developers have the wp-hackers mailing list to discuss core and plugin code. Sometimes UI/UX stuff comes up and gets discussed there, but there is a whole universe of discussion around nav..
WordPress Development Blog (56 days ago)
Simple Link Cloaker for WordPress
From a marketing point of view, it’s important to cloak your links. Cloaking links is a little deceiving in some ways as the URL is hiding the true destination of the link. Unfortunately, many spammers use this technique to mislead visitors into where they are going. Though there are good reasons why legitimate bloggers and [...] Simple Link Cloaker for WordPress A selection of e-books to help you improve as a blogger. Find out more at www.bloggingtips.com/books/
Blogging Tips (57 days ago)
Theme Forest Make Amends
Last week I spoke about the problem I had with Theme Forest. Specifically, the theme I purchased wasn’t working correctly and neither the theme designer nor Envato support were answering my emails. Thankfully, the issue has now been resolved. Chris Wallace was away for a few weeks so wasn’t able to reply to customers. He has [...] Theme Forest Make Amends A selection of e-books to help you improve as a blogger. Find out more at www.bloggingtips.com/books/
Blogging Tips (58 days ago)
Choosing a Wordpress backup plugin that is right for you
Do you backup your blogs? If not, you should! All the efforts you put into writing, advertising, marketing and administrating your blog can go to waste if appropriate reservation measures are not taken in time. Even though many hosting companies make backups of your account, it is still a must to have your own ones. [...] Choosing a Wordpress backup plugin that is right for you A selection of e-books to help you improve as a blogger. Find out more at www.bloggingtips.com/books/
Blogging Tips (62 days ago)
Terrible Support From Theme Forest
Theme Forest is a theme marketplace which sells templates for WordPress, Joomla and standard CSS websites. There are hundreds of templates within the store. The website is owned by Envato, who run several similar graphic stores. Unlike most other WordPress theme stores, ThemeForest do not actually design the themes themselves. Instead, they take a commission for [...] Terrible Support From Theme Forest A selection of e-books to help you improve as a blogger. Find out more at www.bloggingtips.com/books/
Blogging Tips (62 days ago)
WordPress 2.9.1 Is Out
As you probably know version 2.9 of WordPress created a small bug with the cron jobs feature, so scheduling posts ahead of the time was not working correctly. The WordPress community acted pretty fast to fix everything, though, and the new release is already available. You should see a notice to upgrade on your dashboard. Otherwise just head to WordPress.org and download version 2.9.1 manually. There were some other minor issues fixed as well, so if you are using 2.9 make sure to update. Original Post: WordPr..
Daily Blog Tips (64 days ago)
WordPress 2.9.1 Released
WordPress 2.9.1 was released yesterday to address some bugs which were in 2.9. In the announcement post Ryan Boren states that the scheduling bug has been resolved in 2.9 however the scheduled post I had set after I had upgraded missed it’s schedule so I had to install the Semiologic bug fix again. WordPress [...] WordPress 2.9.1 Released A selection of e-books to help you improve as a blogger. Find out more at www.bloggingtips.com/books/
Blogging Tips (64 days ago)
WordPress 2.9.1
After over a million downloads of WordPress 2.9 and lots of feedback from all of you, we're releasing WordPress 2.9.1. This release addresses a handful of minor issues as well as a rather annoying problem where scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly due to incompatibilities with some hosts. If any of these issues affect you, give 2.9.1 a try. Download 2.9.1 or upgrade automatically from the Tools->Upgrade menu in your blog's admin area.
WordPress Development Blog (65 days ago)
How to stop the blank page after leaving a comment in WordPress?
After resolving the scheduling bug in WordPress 2.9, I noticed that I was getting sent to a blank page after leaving a comment here. The comment would post but you had to hit the back button and then reload to find this out. I tried a few things the other day but put it to [...] How to stop the blank page after leaving a comment in WordPress? A selection of e-books to help you improve as a blogger. Find out more at www.bloggingtips.com/books/
Blogging Tips (65 days ago)
Early 2010 WordCamps
Rested up from the holidays? I hope so, because the new year has begun and a lot is going to be happening with WordPress in 2010, and you definitely want to be a part of it. Later this week the scope for version 3.0 (featuring the addition of MU functionality to the WordPress codebase) will be decided in the IRC developer chat*, based on feedback provided by users like you . But it's no fun to live by IRC alone, which is why we love WordCamps. Attending a WordCamp gives you a chance to meet people in your loc..
WordPress Development Blog (65 days ago)
WordPress 2.9.1 Release Candidate 1
Thanks to everyone who tested 2.9.1 Beta 1 . We're following that up with Release Candidate 1. RC1 contains a few more fixes, bringing the number of fixed tickets up to 23. If you are already running Beta 1, visit Tools->Upgrade in your blog's admin to get RC1. You can also download the RC1 package and install manually. If all goes well, 2.9.1 will be here soon.
WordPress Development Blog (71 days ago)
Setting Scope
Merry Christmas! One of the things that was discussed at the core commit team meetup was release scope (and scope creep). Now that 2.9 is out and it's time to start thinking about 3.0, we think it would be appropriate to stop and take a breath before diving in, and make a plan in advance. What winds up happening is that during each release cycle a few new features are selected for inclusion, but then right up until feature freeze (and/or beta cycle), people keep adding feature requests, patches for enhancemen..
WordPress Development Blog (75 days ago)
WordPress 2.9 Is Available
If you visit WordPress.org you will notice that the classic blue download button now says “Download WordPress 2.9″. This is a major upgrade, and brings some really cool new features, including: Trash bin (no more problems with accidentally deleting posts or pages) Built-in image editor Batch plugin update Easier video integration rel=”canonical” tag support database optimization The interesting thing is that when I logged into my WordPress dashboard a couple of minutes ago I didn't see..
Daily Blog Tips (81 days ago)
Here Is How To Easily Build an Email List on WordPress
Building your email list (opt-in email list, that is) is one of the most important things you could do as an online entrepreneur. Why? Because email is the most intimate and responsive communication channel available today, and you must leverage it. That is why I agreed to promote the Squeeze Theme when Nate Whitehill contacted me about it. Because I know that people buying it will be doing themselves a favor. Cutting to the chase, what is the Squeeze Theme? It is a squeeze page creation tool for WordPress. S..
Daily Blog Tips (106 days ago)
Optimize and Speed Up Your Wordpress Blog
This is a guest post by Vlatko. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. If your blog is on shared host but starting to get some serious traffic, then you are probably having problems with slow database queries, and in the future you might even be suspended because of exceeded CPU quota. The outcome will be frustration on your side and annoyed visitors on the other side. The first reaction will be to file dozens of support tickets with the hosting company. After that you might co..
Daily Blog Tips (113 days ago)
Exploit Scanner WordPress Plugin
Last week I was reading the official WordPress blog and I came across an interesting plugin: WordPress Exploit Scanner . It basically scans your database entries and site files looking for suspicious lines of codes. On top of that it also looks for suspicious plugins, posts, pages, users and WordPress settings. Here is a screenshot: It is worth to run this plugin once in a while, and especially if you believe that a malicious user might have compromised your installation recently or in the past. Original Post..
Daily Blog Tips (127 days ago)
How to Report Abuse to WordPress.com
My name is Jonathan Bailey and I usually blog at Plagiarism Today, where I write about content theft, plagiarism and copyright issues on the Web. Lorelle has asked me to fill in while she’s away with a few posts to keep things a little bit more active. So please pardon the change in voice and [...]
Lorelle on WordPress (204 days ago)
Dan Cole and the Theme Options Plugin
WordPress developer Dan Cole has created a Plugin to take the job of theme options out of the hands of theme developers and, in that way, universalize them. The idea is that instead of each theme creating its own options page, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, they can all hook into this one Plugin. Dan's Plugin is called Theme Options , and is available in the WordPress Plugin directory. This sort of Plugin is one that tends to divide people, as it seems to beg for themes to require its installatio..
Theme Playground (224 days ago)
Tweem Giveaway: Winners Announced
Thanks to all of those that dropped by and left a comment in the Tweem giveaway post . Without further ado, the five randomly drawn winners are: Rafie, Kel, webbografico, JB, and Richard Howell Congrats to those who won, I'll be sending your copy of Tweem to the emails you posted with in just a moment. To everyone else, thanks for jumping in, and hopefully we'll get you something in a future Theme Playground giveaway. A big thanks to Shopping Themes for partnering with us on this one. Remember, if you're stil..
Theme Playground (236 days ago)
Why Haikus Matter
Recently Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and other popular services we all know and love, launched a partial redesign of their company website. Most notably, each of the company's projects is described in a haiku, a Japanese form of poetry. At first glance this is hokey, cute, and worth a chuckle or two. Especially when reading through them. But I think these haikus are more important than they may seem at first. This sort of playfulness isn't a new thing within the WordPress world. The default W..
Theme Playground (237 days ago)
Tweem Giveaway: 5 Copies for the Playground Readers
Update: Comments are closed because the winners have been chosen . After the review of Tweem yesterday, I now have 5 copies to give away to you guys. Are there 5 of you out there that would like to run your own Twitter microsite? Tweem is an awesome theme for creating your own Twitter microsite on a sub domain. Save yourself $15, though, and win a copy by picking one up in this post. So what do you need to do to win a copy? Just leave a comment explaining why you love Twitter so much, and what you'll do with ..
Theme Playground (238 days ago)
