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  • New theme: boldness2

    Free WP Themes
    30 Apr 2012 | 1:53 am
    Added boldness2, a new fixed WordPress theme.

  • New theme: refillable

    Free WP Themes
    26 Mar 2012 | 3:01 am
    Added refillable, a new fixed WordPress theme.

  • get_better_excerpt() for WordPress has been updated

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    Christopher Ross
    16 May 2012 | 12:44 pm
    After reading a post on bavotasan.com about the new wp_trim_words() function in WordPress, I took a bit of time this morning to update my get_better_excerpt() plugin for WordPress to version 2.0, which now makes use of the new function. http://thisismyurl.com/downloads/wordpress-plugins/

  • 3 Effective Profanity Filters for WordPress

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    Wordpress Jedi
    15 May 2012 | 10:59 am
    Depending on the type of community you run online, you may not want your members to post profanity or abusive comments to your site. You can always watch out for those types of comments manually. Here are 3 profanity filter plugins that make the job much easier.WP Content Filter: filters out profanity, abusive material, and other keywords of your choosing on your website. You can choose which parts of your website you want to filter and how the plugin should go about doing it. WebPurify Profanity Filter: a profanity filter web service that makes sure the wrong type of content don’t show…

  • WPTavern: Searching Only The Codex

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    Jeffro
    16 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    When performing a search on the Codex, you’re presented with a slew of search results. However, not all of those results are within the Codex. The search portion of the Codex is powered by a Google custom search box which not only presents results from within the Codex, but from across WordPress.org as well, mainly the support forum. While performing a search for Conditional Statements, the first result was the one I was looking for. However, if you want the results to strictly be within the Codex, I came across this link shared by Otto on the Documentation mailing list. While giving…
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  • Calling All Contributors: Community Summit 2012

    Jane Wells
    15 May 2012 | 5:36 pm
    Each year, the WordPress core development team meets in person for a week to work together and discuss the vision for WordPress in the coming year. As annual events go, it’s easily my favorite. Don’t get me wrong, I love attending WordCamps and local WordPress meetups (which are awesome and you should try to attend if you are able), but at the core team meetup, the focus on working together and getting things done is unique, as is the experience of every person in the room being so highly qualified. This year, instead of just planning a core team meetup, I’m aiming a little…

  • WordPress 3.4 Beta 4

    Ryan Boren
    2 May 2012 | 9:52 pm
    Less bugs, more polish, the same beta disclaimers. Download, test, report bugs. Thanks much. /ryan #thewholebrevitything

  • WordPress 3.3.2 (and WordPress 3.4 Beta 3)

    Andrew Nacin
    20 Apr 2012 | 10:10 am
    WordPress 3.3.2 is available now and is a security update for all previous versions. Three external libraries included in WordPress received security updates: Plupload (version 1.5.4), which WordPress uses for uploading media. SWFUpload, which WordPress previously used for uploading media, and may still be in use by plugins. SWFObject, which WordPress previously used to embed Flash content, and may still be in use by plugins and themes. Thanks to Neal Poole and Nathan Partlan for responsibly disclosing the bugs in Plupload and SWFUpload, and Szymon Gruszecki for a separate bug in SWFUpload.

  • WordPress 3.4 Beta 2

    Jane Wells
    11 Apr 2012 | 10:52 pm
    Howdy, folks! Another week, another beta. Since we released Beta 1 last week, we’ve committed more than 60 bug fixes and feature adjustments based on testing and feedback. If you’ve been testing Beta 1, please update to Beta 2 to make sure things are still working for you. If you are a theme or plugin author and have not yet started testing your code against the 3.4 beta, now’s the perfect time to start. And as always, if you find any bugs, let us know! Full details on testing and bug reporting can be found in last week’s Beta 1 post. Download WordPress 3.4 Beta 2

  • WordPress 3.4 Beta 1

    Jane Wells
    4 Apr 2012 | 9:07 pm
    WordPress 3.4 is ready for beta testers! As always, this is software still in development and we don’t recommend that you run it on a production site — set up a test site just to play with the new version. If you break it (find a bug), please report it, and if you’re a developer, try to help us fix it. If all goes well, we hope to release WordPress 3.4 in May. The more help we get with testing and fixing bugs, the sooner we will be able to release the final version. If you want to be a beta tester, you should check out the Codex article on how to report bugs. Here’s some of…
 
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  • Stay In The Conversation

    Beau Lebens
    15 May 2012 | 6:01 pm
    It’s now much easier for you and your commenters to keep track of the conversations you’re involved in across WordPress.com. Some recent tests have shown that by subscribing commenters to new comments by default, they are more likely to stay engaged and come back and comment more on your blog. With that knowledge, we’ve changed the default comment following behavior to help you get more conversations going on your blog. We made the initial changes last week and after great feedback from you we just launched an update. Here’s how it works: By default, posting a comment…

  • Look at These Gorgeous Blogs

    Sheri
    15 May 2012 | 1:05 pm
    We’ve added a user showcase where you can view stunning customizations made by people just like you. From complete redesigns with CSS to adding pizzazz with Custom Fonts to clever use of options like background and header, this showcase will spark your imagination and inspire creativity. Discover details about what each showcase blog is doing with WordPress.com themes and customizations by clicking a thumbnail to see a colophon-style list of credits on the left. We’ve also updated footer links so blog owners can show off the types of customizations they’ve made and visitors can…

  • Photo Blogging 101, Part 1

    Erica V.
    14 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Spring is in the air. With the weather warming up, now is a great time to get started on a photo blog. Creating a photo blog is a wonderful introduction to blogging on WordPress.com or an opportunity to refresh your current site. Ready to get started? You can sign up for a new blog right over here. Getting started Photo blogs, sometimes called phlogs, use pictures instead of words. While many photo bloggers choose a type of photo that they want to focus on, such as portraits, others use their photo blog to document their life’s events. Photo blogs come in a variety of styles, including…

  • New Themes: Just Desserts and Oxygen

    Michelle Langston
    10 May 2012 | 8:11 am
    Happy Thursday! We’ve added some exciting new themes to our ever-growing collection, and we’re happy to tell you all about them. First out of the oven is…Just Desserts. Yep, that’s a theme! Designed by Andy Rutledge, Just Desserts is a deliciously stylish premium theme that’s perfect for blogs centered on food. With its responsive, single-column layout and unique presentation of images and posts on the front page, Just Desserts gives you a delectable canvas on which your mouthwatering photos and text can really shine — even when viewed on smaller mobile devices…

  • Find Friends Who Use WordPress

    Nick Momrik
    1 May 2012 | 2:32 pm
    Are you curious to see how your friends are using WordPress? Give the new and improved Friend Finder a try to connect with your Twitter, Facebook, and Google contacts who have WordPress sites! After authorizing WordPress.com to use your Twitter, Facebook, or Google account to find your friends (don’t worry — none of this account information is saved!) you’ll see a list of people you know who have WordPress sites. Click Follow and each time your friend publishes a new post it will show up in your Reader under Blogs I Follow. If you have multiple blogs, make sure to set the…
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    WordPress Planet

  • Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Community Summit

    James
    16 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    The WordPress core team is pulling out all the stops this year and shooting for a big summit to be attended by prominent contributors and community members. Instead of the traditional meet up, which is typically attended by only the core developers and their chosen guests, the core team is now looking for your nominations to decide who will attend the first ever WordPress Community Summit. The Summit will allow the core developers to get to work with the best and brightest of the WordPress community (support forum volunteers, the Theme Review Team, volunteer documentation editors, community…

  • WPTavern: Searching Only The Codex

    Jeffro
    16 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    When performing a search on the Codex, you’re presented with a slew of search results. However, not all of those results are within the Codex. The search portion of the Codex is powered by a Google custom search box which not only presents results from within the Codex, but from across WordPress.org as well, mainly the support forum. While performing a search for Conditional Statements, the first result was the one I was looking for. However, if you want the results to strictly be within the Codex, I came across this link shared by Otto on the Documentation mailing list. While giving…

  • Donncha: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted

    Donncha O Caoimh
    16 May 2012 | 7:50 am
    WordPress uses memory. Plugins and themes use memory. New versions of software may use more memory than before. When that happens and PHP on your server doesn’t have enough memory then PHP will stop with a fatal error like this: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1203208 bytes) in /home/*****/public_html/wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php on line 4215 This happens quite a bit but it’s not a bug in WordPress or your new plugin or theme, you simply need to let PHP use more memory on your server. Thankfully WordPress makes it easy to do…

  • Dev Blog: Calling All Contributors: Community Summit 2012

    Jane Wells
    15 May 2012 | 5:36 pm
    Each year, the WordPress core development team meets in person for a week to work together and discuss the vision for WordPress in the coming year. As annual events go, it’s easily my favorite. Don’t get me wrong, I love attending WordCamps and local WordPress meetups (which are awesome and you should try to attend if you are able), but at the core team meetup, the focus on working together and getting things done is unique, as is the experience of every person in the room being so highly qualified. This year, instead of just planning a core team meetup, I’m aiming a little…

  • Alex King: WP App Store

    Alex
    15 May 2012 | 4:18 pm
    Congratulations to Brad on today’s launch of WP App Store. I’m very pleased to see this come to life. It’s an idea we toyed around with several years ago, but decided not to pull the trigger on – I hope it’s a huge success. We’ve put our FavePersonal and FaveBusiness themes along with our RAMP plugin into the app store. If you’d like to check it out, download the plugin and start browsing. There is a great group of companies represented already and I’m sure we’ll see more additions as the project grows.
 
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    Matt Mullenweg

  • Diary Of A WordCamp

    Matt
    15 May 2012 | 10:41 am
    With all the hubaboo going on about WordCamps right now, it’s nice to read Siobhan McKeown’s Diary Of A WordCamp on Smashing WordPress, a great story about her experience at WordCamp Netherlands.

  • WP Businesses and Contributions

    Matt
    13 May 2012 | 7:54 pm
    10up partner Helen is now a core WP contributor and 10up highlights that contribution on their blog. It’s very exciting to see more core involvement springing up all over the WP ecosystem, as it has a big impact on the quality of the core software we all depend on. Let me know if you spot any more examples and I’ll share them here.

  • Three Laws of Makerbot

    Matt
    8 May 2012 | 10:21 am
    The landlord at 87 Third Avenue included a lease clause requiring that MakerBot comply with science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov’s “three laws of robotics,” which require that robots follow orders, not injure humans, and protect their own existence. Makerbot has a fun article in the WSJ today about moving office space. (Makerbot is an Audrey company.)

  • Richard Clarke on Stuxnet

    Matt
    26 Apr 2012 | 10:46 am
    Smithsonian Magazine has a great article on Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism czar, discussing Who Was Behind the Stuxnet Attack.

  • Automattic Growth

    Matt
    25 Apr 2012 | 9:40 am
    Liz Gannes writes for AllThingsD, Automattic Grows Up: The Company Behind WordPress.com Shares Revenue Numbers and Hires Execs. In addition to Stu joining as CFO and Paul as Consigliere/Automattlock, we’ve been on a hiring roll the past month or two with excellent folks joining at every level of the company, including two more Matts. If you’re passionate about Open Source and making the web a better place, like we are, there’s never been a better time to join. My favorite thing about logging in every morning is the people I work with. Friends say I work too much but it…
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    ThemeShaper

  • Introducing the Monster Widget

    Michael Fields
    15 May 2012 | 8:31 pm
    An important part of the theme development process is testing. As a member of the Theme Team at Automattic I can say that we like to test everything we can! One thing that we have observed is that widget testing can take up a lot of time. WordPress provides 13 widgets, many of which contain a form enabling us to customize each instance. Populating a sidebar with widgets can be rather time consuming especially if you have to tweak each widget’s settings. In an attempt to make widget testing faster and more enjoyable, we’ve put together a new plugin called the Monster Widget which…

  • Our very own Ian Stewart was a special guest on the ShopTalk Podcast.

    Takashi Irie
    27 Apr 2012 | 6:22 pm
    Recently, Ian Stewart was a special guest on the podcast by Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert, ShopTalk. Ian discussed many web topics, including WordPress (obviously!) and answered questions from listeners. http://shoptalkshow.com/episodes/016-with-ian-stewart/

  • Theme Options Gallery: The Best (and the Worst) Theme Options Screens Around

    Ian Stewart
    27 Apr 2012 | 10:17 am
    Man, theme options. There aren’t many more topics in WordPress theme development that inspire more discussion these days than theme options. If you haven’t seen it yet, check out Konstantin Kovshenin’s Theme Options Gallery. Konstantin reviews the best and worst theme options pages around there. It’s where the best discussion on theme options is happening right now.

  • Let’s Talk about Semantics

    Ian Stewart
    19 Apr 2012 | 9:54 am
    If you’re interested in HTML Semantics and are looking for a good place to start learning more about it and what it means start out with this post at HTML5 Doctor, Let’s Talk about Semantics. At the very least, you’ll learn why we don’t have a pineapple element in HTML.

  • Tighter and leaner WordPress templates with get_template_part()

    Ian Stewart
    19 Apr 2012 | 9:50 am
    If you’re interested in learning more about how to use get_template_part() in your themes and why you might want to, designer and developer, Terry Sutton, has a great post up called Tighter and leaner WordPress templates with get_template_part(). It’s well worth a read. (And not just because he mentions _s though that’s pretty cool too.)
 
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    Lorelle on WordPress

  • Do Not Delete Comment Spam. Mark Spam as Spam.

    Lorelle VanFossen
    10 May 2012 | 5:16 pm
    Is comment spam one of the things that gets you down? Are you taking it personally? Are you confused by comment spam and how to handle it? I’ve been speaking at a variety of meetups lately on web publishing, blogging, and podcasting, and the topics often turn to managing comments and comment spam. “I’ve started [...]

  • WordCamp San Francisco August 4, 2012

    Lorelle VanFossen
    8 May 2012 | 1:48 pm
    WordCamp San Francisco 2012 is set for August 4 this year at the Mission Bay Conference Center. A developer hack day is scheduled for August 5th, and a survey looking for the best WordCamp speakers is open for recommendations. I know it’s me, but who’s counting. Honestly, if you have attended a WordCamp in the [...]

  • May Day Protests: Having Your Say Beyond the Web

    Lorelle VanFossen
    2 May 2012 | 7:22 pm
    Yesterday was the annual May Day protests across the United States. I stumbled upon the Portland, Oregon, May Day protest parade on my way to meet with the panel members for the WordPress Theme Panel at WebVisions 2012. The power of the blog is the ability to have your say. A blog doesn’t guarantee the [...]

  • WordPress Theme Panel at WebVisions 2012

    Lorelle VanFossen
    30 Apr 2012 | 11:22 am
    Webvisions is in Portland, Oregon, May 16-18, 2012, and I’ll be there presenting “Crank WordPress to 11” featuring four top WordPress designers and developers showcasing how they have pushed WordPress beyond traditional limits and taking your questions about how they do it and if WordPress can take it. Friday, May 18, at 1:30PM, I’ll be [...]

  • 201 WordPress Books

    Lorelle VanFossen
    26 Apr 2012 | 2:01 pm
    As part of my project to bring WordPress into colleges nationally, I did a quick survey of how many books have been published about WordPress. I was asked by several major publishers to publish the first book in English on WordPress but had to decline due to my traveling schedule and work load, so it’s [...]
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  • Diary of WordCamp Netherlands 2012

    Ryan Imel
    16 May 2012 | 8:53 am
    Siobhan McKeown with an excellent writeup of WordCamp Netherlands 2012 on Smashing Magazine. Killer photos, interviews, and a day by day breakdown. Love it.You just finished reading Diary of WordCamp Netherlands 2012 on WPCandy. Please consider leaving a comment!

  • Have any questions for the BuddyPress Core team?

    Ryan Imel
    16 May 2012 | 8:44 am
    This week’s WPCandy Roundtable will be filled with BuddyPress Core developers: John James Jacoby, Boone Gorges, and Paul Gibbs will be sitting down to chat. If you caught last week’s show with the marketplace theme developers, you’ll know a thing or two about what to expect tomorrow afternoon.We’ll be streaming the Roundtable on the WPCandy Stream at 2pm EDT (18 UTC) with the chatroom buzzing if you’d like to swing by and get your question answered by the group.Speaking of questions, if you have one (or a few) that you’d like to see posed to these…

  • WP App Store launches with 17 theme and plugin partners

    Ryan Imel
    16 May 2012 | 7:41 am
    WP App Store, the project aiming to make plugin and theme purchases easy within the WordPress dashboard — and which we previewed a couple of months ago — quietly launched yesterday (complete with slick intro video). Their plugin is downloadable on their website, which once installed will give you a new top-level menu item for browsing commercial themes and plugins recently added to their system.Seventeen theme and plugin partners are in place at launch, a few more than announced when the original teaser page went up. Brad Touesnard, the developer behind WP App Store, said that a…

  • How Mark Jaquith built “Have Baby. Need Stuff!”

    Ryan Imel
    16 May 2012 | 4:57 am
    Mark Jaquith wrote an awesome blog post describing how he went about building a website called Have Baby. Need Stuff! He used _s from Automattic, Bootstrap, Posts 2 Posts, and a handful of other goodies to pull the site together.You just finished reading How Mark Jaquith built "Have Baby. Need Stuff!" on WPCandy. Please consider leaving a comment!

  • Aftertaste #18: After The Weekly Theme Show 8

    Ryan Imel
    16 May 2012 | 4:51 am
    This episode of Aftertaste immediately follows this week’s Weekly Theme Show and sees the crew casually discussing WordPress hosting choices, going back and forth with the chatroom, and choosing the episode title. MP3 file (2.7 MB)Subscribe on iTunesAudio RSS FeedYou just finished reading Aftertaste #18: After The Weekly Theme Show 8 on WPCandy. Please consider leaving a comment!
 
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  • Reusable Custom Meta Boxes Part 4: Using the Data

    Tammy Hart
    20 Apr 2012 | 9:10 am
    In Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of our custom meta box template tutorial series, we learned how to make a reusable meta box that gets all of the field information from an easy to read, easy to duplicate array. A lot of the data is simple to use by just echoing the meta field in your template or through a function, but some of the fields are more complex and require a bit more finesse to use properly. This tutorial will give you a basic idea of how to use this data and can be expounded on in countless ways. Finish Reading at WPTuts+

  • Even more Reusable Custom WordPress Meta Boxes

    Tammy Hart
    31 Mar 2012 | 7:16 pm
    Part 4 of my Reusable Custom Meta Boxes tutorial series on WPTuts+ is set to publish next week which will go over how to use the various types of data stored with the fields we create through each part of the tutorial. Since I first started the series, I’ve made some major improvements that make their resuability even better. Since this seems to be an ever growing project, I’ve set it up on GitHub. This way, you can watch the project for more improvments and for new fields that I add. It’s open source, so you can even contribute to it! Reusable Custom WordPress Meta Boxes on…

  • Quick Tip: Display Excerpts of Child Pages with a Shortcode

    Tammy Hart
    14 Feb 2012 | 10:41 am
    Sometimes we have a page just for the sake of making it a parent of other pages. I’ve even seen these pages left blank! You should at least have a small paragraph for the sake of search engines and visitors alike, but what about also offering a snippet of the subpages to read similar to how your blog page does posts? In this quick tip, we’ll create a little function that will query the page for child pages, display titles, excerpts and links if it finds any, and add it to a shortcode for use from the WordPress page editor. Finish Reading at WPTuts+

  • Food Blog Design Featured on the Front Page of Slideshare

    Tammy Hart
    30 Jan 2012 | 11:58 am
    So I got a tweet from my friend Wade this morning that surprised me: @tammyhart Your "Food Blog Design" deck is on the front page of SlideShare: http://t.co/8dmlYSDiJanuary 30, 2012 12:20 pm via TweetDeckReplyRetweetFavorite@WadeOnTweetsWade Kwon I’ve been posting to slideshare for a couple of years now and one of my decks has 3,500 views.. from 2 years ago. But 1k+ in two days and rising now that I’m on the homepage, that’s pretty exciting. I wish I knew more about how they select decks for their featured section. Is it because of views I was getting on my own? Favorites?

  • Food Blog Design

    Tammy Hart
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:35 am
    Did you know that you can optimize your recipes so that they are listed with a thumbnail, rating, and other info in Google search results? Have you ever wondered why other food blogs with the same amount of traffic as yours get more comments and interaction? Do you just need a few pointers on how you can spiff up the look and feel of your food blog? If you answered yes to any of these or have pondered similar questions you should be sure to attend my session on Food Blog Design at FoodBlog South this coming Saturday. I’ll be speaking at 10:30 for 80 minutes on this topic and one lucky…
 
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    WP Force

  • WordPress App Store: Purchase, Download and Install Themes & Plugins from Top Brands

    Jonathan Dingman
    15 May 2012 | 5:35 pm
    Everyone needs just another app store, right? Let’s dive into the latest app store called the WordPress App Store. Created by Brad Touesnard.A new app store specific to WordPress, allowing users to purchase, download, and install themes and plugin directly from within WordPress. This is almost like an add-on to the WordPress Plugin Repository because it allows in-store purchasing. Could this revolutionize the “Premium” market for WordPress?Maybe. It could be a huge success or a big failure. Given the advisory board, Adii Pienaar (WooThemes), Carl Hancock (Gravity Forms), and…

  • Manage, Update, and Backup WordPress using Self-Hosted InfiniteWP

    Jonathan Dingman
    15 May 2012 | 10:24 am
    Lookout ManageWP.com, you’ve got a competitor!Introducing InfiniteWP, a self-hosted, self-managed one-stop portal, to manage all of your WordPress installations. It’s a free download that will soon be offering premium addons. The management system itself is not built on-top of WordPress, but it hooks into WordPress using a plugin. It’s a great idea to be using a plugin for a number of reasons, the first reason I can think of is password security.What is InfiniteWP All About?InfiniteWP is a self-hosted download that gives you the ability to manage multiple WordPress…

  • Scribe SEO: Improve SEO Copywriting and Increase Your Rankings

    Jonathan Dingman
    10 May 2012 | 1:45 pm
    Scribe SEO is a one of kind WordPress plugin. In short, Scribe will help you analyze your content, ensure you meet minimum requirements for length and keyword density, and overall guide you towards writing content that is easier to read. Let’s dive into how to improve your SEO copywriting through Scribe.Setting up Scribe SEOScribe works with a lot of different themes and SEO plugins, providing flexibility in how you want to manage your titles, descriptions, and/or keywords. Currently supported plugins are: All-in-one SEO, FV All-in-One SEO, Headspace2, Platinum SEO Pack, SEO ultimate,…

  • WP Zoom Hiring More Support Staff

    Jonathan Dingman
    9 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    WPZoom, a premium WordPress themes shop based out Chisinau, Moldova, recently announced that they are looking to hiring at least one more support team members.They are looking for someone that has at least 2 years of experience with WordPress, with HTML and CSS knowledge, and PHP and jQuery knowledge would be beneficial.Looks like a pretty good role if you’re interested in growing your knowledge of WordPress and getting paid for it.WPZoom makes some beautiful themes and it’s great to see they’re expanding their team.Hope they find someone great for their team.Related…

  • WP-Lipsum to Help WordPress Theme Developers with Sample Content

    Jonathan Dingman
    9 May 2012 | 2:38 pm
    Developing a new WordPress theme can often be difficult when it comes to having sample data to work with. There are websites that help with filler content, such as lipsum.org, but those services often just provide a single paragraph and it’s still difficult to get the full markup for ordered lists, unordered lists, blockquotes, and more.WP-Lipsum, a recently released plugin by Dylan Hassinger (@dylanized) of BedRockTheme.com, helps solve the issue of content filler.This plugin comes fully loaded with a ton of options to make it easy to design and work with content in any manner for your…
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    Mitch Canter is [studionashvegas]

  • Breaking Silence

    admin
    8 May 2012 | 10:02 am
    Posted in ConferencesSo, I’ve been really quiet on here for a bit.  I know, I know – I keep saying all these things about how I want to blog more and never do.  That’s my bad, for sure. So, that said, I wanted to give you guys an update on how things are going.  People forget that behind all the code and graphics there’s a real person.  So, if you don’t care, then there’ll be more posts soon, but here’s what’s going on in the life of the  real studionashvegas – me (Mitch)! BlogWorldExpo BlogWorld is less than a month away, and…

  • PodCampNashville – #pcn12 was (as always) a success!

    admin
    14 Apr 2012 | 10:08 pm
    Posted in ConferencesToday, hundreds of geeks woke up early, strapped on their laptop bags, and converged onto the Tequila Cowboy bar in Nashville for the 5th annual PodCamp unconference.  Nashville has a reputation for delivering some of the best unconferences in the nation, and today was no different.  Attendance was a bit smaller (~450 people), but I honestly enjoyed the smaller crowd, as it gave me a chance to get some elbow room in a typically crowded space.  The sessions were fantastic (and I actually went to quite a few today instead of just hanging out in the hallway), and there…

  • One Web to Rule Them All: The Elastic Grid

    admin
    12 Apr 2012 | 11:36 am
    Posted in DesignThis series is meant to be an in-depth look at Responsive Design.  It covers the history, the how-to, and best practices on responsive design, taken from the view of someone who hates fluid layouts and has found a (seemingly) better solution.  This session will be expounded upon in detail at PodCampNashville, then again in more detail at BlogWorldExpo later this year. In case you’re wondering, here’s the road map for this week’s series: Introduction What Are Media Queries The Elastic Grid Best Practices for Responsive Design Podcamp Session: Wrap Up! When…

  • I’m Open Sourcing My Core Theme

    admin
    11 Apr 2012 | 10:52 am
    Posted in ThemesThe last few posts I’ve made on here were diving into the introductions of a Responsive Design (and I plan on finishing that series – work and life got the best of me), but since I started writing those I’ve taken the liberty upon myself to rewrite the boilerplate that I use on nearly every site I design and develop.  I’ve added functions here and there, but I’ve reached a bit of a stall as to what else I could do for it. So, I’m turning it loose to see how other people use it. Starting today, you can now download a copy of my “SNV…

  • One Web to Rule Them All: Media Queries

    admin
    20 Mar 2012 | 11:38 am
    Posted in DesignThis series is meant to be an in-depth look at Responsive Design.  It covers the history, the how-to, and best practices on responsive design, taken from the view of someone who hates fluid layouts and has found a (seemingly) better solution.  This session will be expounded upon in detail at BlogWorldExpo later this year. In case you’re wondering, here’s the road map for this week’s series: Monday: Introduction Tuesday: What Are Media Queries Wednesday: The Elastic Grid Thursday: Best Practices for Responsive Design Friday: Examples and Epilogue Yesterday…
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    Padd Solutions

  • Padd Solutions 3.0 Launches Today

    Dulce
    4 May 2012 | 2:15 pm
    Early this year, we have been very busy behind the scene, brainstorming and conceptualizing a much-needed upgrade of the 3-year-old Padd Solutions design. With the influx of new innovations and latest web-based technologies, we needed to catch up. Today, we finally breath life to a totally new Padd Solutions – a company which prides itself on developing premium quality WordPress themes, publishing informative WordPress tutorials to the community and delivering WordPress services to bloggers, small businesses and startups! What’s new with Padd Solutions 3.0? Content-Focused Design Sporting…

  • Telluriumic 1.1 Released

    James
    3 May 2012 | 4:10 am
    The Telluriumic 1.1 WordPress Theme is released with the following fixes. Fixed logo image size issues when the allow_url_fopen is disabled. Fixed notices on unknown indexes in arrays and unknown variables. Removed deprecated calls during the theme setup. Download and enjoy Telluriumic WordPress Theme now! Thank you to those who’ve tested the theme. Telluriumic 1.1 Released is originally posted at Padd Solutions - leading provider of free and premium quality WordPress themes.

  • Goldtastic 1.1 Released

    James
    3 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    The Goldtastic 1.1 WordPress Theme is released with the following fixes. Fixed logo image size issues when the allow_url_fopen is disabled. Fixed icons size issues in home page when the allow_url_fopen is disabled. Fixed notices on unknown indexes in arrays and unknown variables. Removed deprecated calls during the theme setup. Download and enjoy Goldtastic WordPress Theme now! Thank you to those who’ve tested the theme. Goldtastic 1.1 Released is originally posted at Padd Solutions - leading provider of free and premium quality WordPress themes.

  • WordPress Theme: Seaborgiumic

    Dulce
    21 Apr 2012 | 10:25 am
    Our latest theme release is Seaborgiumic WordPress theme. It is a straight-forward and featured-pack Magazine WordPress theme. Seaborgiumic WordPress theme comes with a grid layout design for easier presentation of important categories. It also comes with a built-in Facebook Like Box for your Facebook Fan pages and an advertisement spot for easier monetization. Seaborgiumic is easy to customize via the backend admin panel. This freemium WordPress theme is packed with an upgraded framework and a robust admin options panel to accommodate the General Settings, Page Tracker, Slideshow Settings,…

  • WordPress Theme: Dubniumize

    Dulce
    18 Apr 2012 | 1:01 pm
    With soft colors, featured content section and a sliding carousel Dubniumize WordPress theme, makes an awesome blog theme for your site. Dubniumize WordPress theme has a popular posts section, photo stream and much more! It comes with a built-in Facebook Like Box for your Facebook Fan pages and an advertisement spot for easier monetization. Dubniumize is easy to customize via the backend admin panel. This freemium WordPress theme is packed with an upgraded framework and a robust admin options panel to accommodate the General Settings, Page Tracker, Carousel Settings, Social Networking, Page…
 
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    WordPress Consultant: Judith Kallos, At Your Service...

  • WordPress How To: Make a Blog

    Judith
    11 May 2012 | 5:42 am
    While Blogging is something many folks are doing and many more would like to do, for those just investigating starting a Blog, where do you start?Based on the number of inquiries I get every day asking that very question it is clear that inquiring minds want to know! Even though there are various blogging platforms that are available for you to make a Blog, being a WordPress Consultant means that’s the platform I recommend you use.Many hosting companies offer automated installation of WordPress in their control panels for those not into FTP and configuration details. I use HostGator…

  • 2 New Exquisite Responsive WordPress Themes

    Judith
    4 May 2012 | 12:45 pm
    My two favorite theme shops introduced a couple themes this week that have me really excited. Both offer elegant and beautiful designs to allow your business to shine while also being fully responsive. This means your site will display nicely regardless of screen resolution, size or device.Both themes will give your site that professional polished appearance that is so important to being taken seriously so you are viewed as a credible online enterprise. At the same time these themes give you the ability to feature your important content and add focus to those areas on your site you know your…

  • Listen, Surprise and Delight Your Customers

    Judith
    27 Apr 2012 | 11:56 am
    You can have the most well developed WordPress site in your market with the best product at the lowest price and if you don’t have your Customer Service methodology firmly intact — you’ve got nothing!This means everyone in your organization is on the same page when it comes to how to communicate and assist your potential and current customers. Excellent customer service naturally should transfer to your supplier and vendor relationships as well. Solid customer service practices must permeate everything to do with running your business if you are serious about long term…
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  • How to automatically create meta description from content

    Jean-Baptiste Jung
    16 May 2012 | 12:02 pm
    Paste the following code into your functions.php file: function create_meta_desc() { global $post; if (!is_single()) { return; } $meta = strip_tags($post->post_content); $meta = strip_shortcodes($post->post_content); $meta = str_replace(array("\n", "\r", "\t"), ' ', $meta); $meta = substr($meta, 0, 125); echo "<meta name='description' content='$meta' />"; } add_action('wp_head', 'create_meta_desc'); Thanks to Paul for this handy snippet!

  • How to Remove the Width and Height Attributes From WP Image Uploader

    Jean-Baptiste Jung
    8 May 2012 | 9:07 am
    Simply paste the following code into your theme functions.php: add_filter( 'post_thumbnail_html', 'remove_width_attribute', 10 ); add_filter( 'image_send_to_editor', 'remove_width_attribute', 10 ); function remove_width_attribute( $html ) { $html = preg_replace( '/(width|height)="\d*"\s/', "", $html ); return $html; } Thanks to Damien for the cool hack!

  • How to test if a plugin is active

    Jean-Baptiste Jung
    4 May 2012 | 8:02 am
    Nothing complicated: Simply paste the code below where you need to test if a specific plugin is active. Don't forget to update the plugin path on line 2! <?php if (is_plugin_active('plugin-directory/plugin-file.php')) { // the plugin is active } ?> Thanks to Cats Who Code for the cool tip!

  • How to redirect users to a random post

    Jean-Baptiste Jung
    30 Apr 2012 | 8:27 am
    Create a new file and name it page-random.php. Paste the code below in it: // set arguments for get_posts() $args = array( 'numberposts' => 1, 'orderby' => 'rand' ); // get a random post from the database $my_random_post = get_posts ( $args ); // process the database request through a foreach loop foreach ( $my_random_post as $post ) { // redirect the user to the random post wp_redirect ( get_permalink ( $post->ID ) ); exit; } Once done, upload the page-random.php file to your theme directory. Then, login to your WordPress dashboard and create a new page,…

  • How to disable plugin updates on your WordPress blog

    Jean-Baptiste Jung
    24 Apr 2012 | 10:10 am
    Nothing complicated: Simply paste the following code into your functions.php, save it, and you're done. remove_action( 'load-update-core.php', 'wp_update_plugins' ); add_filter( 'pre_site_transient_update_plugins', create_function( '$a', "return null;" ) ); Thanks to WP Snippets for the useful tip!
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    StudioPress

  • RealPro 1.0 Child Theme Now Available

    Brian Gardner
    14 May 2012 | 9:01 am
    We are happy to announce the release of the RealPro 1.0 child theme. This WordPress theme works on the Genesis Framework and can be purchased here. RealPro was developed by Chris Ford of Creativity Included, and is categorized as a Community theme. These are not included in the Pro Plus All-Themes package, but we assure you that the design and coding of them are top-notch. Theme Features The RealPro child theme includes the following features: 6 layout options, custom background, custom boxes, custom buttons, custom menus, featured images, fixed width, property listings, theme options. Take…

  • Adorable 1.0 Child Theme Now Available

    Brian Gardner
    9 May 2012 | 1:38 pm
    We are happy to announce the release of the Adorable 1.0 child theme. This WordPress theme works on the Genesis Framework and can be purchased here. Adorable was developed by Lindsey Riel of Pretty Darn Cute Design, and is categorized as a Community theme. These are not included in the Pro Plus All-Themes package, but we assure you that the design and coding of them are top-notch. Click here to see how the Adorable theme looks across mobile devices. Theme Features The Adorable child theme includes the following features: 5 color styles (colorful, red & aqua, pink & green, teal…

  • Mindstream 1.0 Child Theme Available

    Brian Gardner
    7 May 2012 | 9:59 am
    We are happy to announce the release of the Mindstream 1.0 child theme. This WordPress theme works on the Genesis Framework and can be downloaded by Pro Plus members in the support forum. All others can purchase the package here. The Mindstream theme is the tenth theme released here which has been developed to be mobile responsive in design. The first nine themes are Agency, Balance, Decor, eleven40, Focus, Generate, Mocha, Prose and Streamline. Click here to see how the Mindstream theme looks across mobile devices. Post Formats When WordPress 3.1 was released, they added the ability to…

  • Decor 1.0 Child Theme Now Available

    Brian Gardner
    1 May 2012 | 9:41 am
    We are happy to announce the release of the Decor 1.0 child theme. This WordPress theme works on the Genesis Framework and can be downloaded by Pro Plus members in the support forum. All others can purchase the package here. The Decor theme is the ninth theme released here which has been developed to be mobile responsive in design. The first eight themes are Agency, Balance, eleven40, Focus, Generate, Mocha, Prose and Streamline. Click here to see how the Decor theme looks across mobile devices. Theme Features The Decor child theme includes the following features: 4 color styles (amethyst,…

  • How to Design for Apple’s Retina Displays

    Josh Byers
    16 Apr 2012 | 9:09 am
    If you’ve watched the HBO series Game of Thrones (or have read through the Song of Ice and Fire series), you’ll know that one of the major themes throughout the story is the subtle art of politicking. In order to survive you’d better know what your enemy’s next move will be — and be able to defend or counter it quickly. It’s no secret that the majority of web browsing is sliding quickly over to mobile devices. Because of this, designers and developers have been forced to confront their new handheld overlords. We’ve been given quite a few responsive…
 
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    iThemes

  • How to Make Money with WordPress Webinar

    Cory Miller
    16 May 2012 | 9:26 am
    WordPress is an amazing piece of open source software with a huge community behind it. As with that comes opportunity to use it to make money (in the right way). For the past 6+ years, I’ve been using WordPress in a number of ways to make money personally and build my personal brand and an audience. Of course, the last four years we’ve been building an entire company based on it — with over 180+ professional themes and plugins and over 350+ hours of on-demand WordPress web design training. I recently gave a talk to a local group on this subject and wanted to share it also…

  • Free eBook: I Want To Hire You But Your Resume Sucks

    Kristen Wright
    14 May 2012 | 5:27 pm
    What’s the first impression you give to prospective employers? Hint: It’s a piece of paper. Another hint: It probably sucks. The newest addition to the iThemes eBook library has just arrived — right on time to help rescue your resume. In “I Want To Hire You But Your Resume Sucks,” Cory shares 30+ tips for how to start doing the things that will make you an attractive free agent to prospective employers. Your resume is just piece of paper, but it’s also a brochure that sells your services to employers. But the fact is: Most resumes suck. Not because of the paper or…

  • Friends of iThemes: James Frazier

    Kristen Wright
    7 May 2012 | 3:30 pm
    Earlier this year we launched the Friends of iThemes to our customer community as a way to connect our customers with the “inside scoop” about everything going on at iThemes. The Friends of iThemes graciously gave us their photos to help decorate our office walls (you may have already seen the installation of the “Friends of iThemes” wall on the blog) and we thought it would also be cool to celebrate some of their amazing stories. From finally opening their own businesses or launching their first website to other unexpected accomplishments that have totally…

  • Just Released: Builder Events Block

    Kristen Wright
    1 May 2012 | 5:00 pm
    Easily manage events with the new Builder Events Block We’re really proud to announce the official release of the new Builder Events Block — the new event management plugin for iThemes Builder! Features Earlier this month we previewed some of the Builder Events Block features that will make adding events to your WordPress site quick and easy. After some internal testing, we updated a few details that provide optimal customization. Here’s a quick Builder Events Block feature recap: 1. Add events straight from the WordPress dashboard.  Since Builder Blocks operate as a…

  • Announcing iThemes Education Pricing Discounts For Your Classroom

    Cory Miller
    30 Apr 2012 | 2:21 pm
    Last year we announced that we were giving away over $100K away in WordPress themes, plugins and training to qualified educators as part of our iThemes Education program. And we haven’t stopped there. Each week we continue to add more and more educators to this program that gives educators access and support to our entire WordPress inventory — our WordPress Web Designer’s Toolkit — for free. (By the way, if you’re a teacher and haven’t applied, go submit your application here.) Then, we rolled out the Student Toolkit, which includes our entire inventory,…
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    Elegant Themes Blog

  • Nova Theme Now Fully Responsive

    Nick
    16 May 2012 | 11:55 am
    As we continue our mission to help prepare your websites for the huge increase in mobile and tablet users on the web, the next theme to be made responsive is Nova. As a responsive design, Nova will now adapt to your visitors screen size in order to best display your content. If your visitors view your website on an iPhone, for example, the design will adapt and re-arrange the content on your page to insure that your visitor will not have to zoom and scroll around to read your page. The design will also function great on tablets, such as the iPad. Furthermore, the design comes with formats…

  • Theme Sneak Peek: Flexible

    Nick
    10 May 2012 | 1:48 pm
    Today I have for you a sneak peek of our upcoming theme Flexible. Flexible will be a simple, responsive and versatile portfolio theme that focuses on a clean, modern aesthetic. While we have some great gallery themes already, none of them have the crisp and simplistic design that I would love to see used to showcase an artist’s work. I hope you like the preview! Let us know what you think

  • Aggregate Now Fully Responsive

    Nick
    9 May 2012 | 1:52 pm
    Continuing our responsive design mission, Aggregate is the next theme to be converted. When we first announced that many of our most popular themes would be revisited and updated with responsive designs, we had a lot of requests for Aggregate to be among those themes. I am happy that we can fulfill that request today Aggregate’s design will now adapt to various screen sizes to insure that your website is readable and easy to navigate on any device. No longer will your visitors need to zoom and scroll on their phones or tablets in order to read your blog!   I hope that you enjoy the…

  • New Theme: Trim

    Nick
    3 May 2012 | 2:43 pm
    Trim is simple, professional, versatile and fast. We have had a lot of requests for a less stylistic, lightweight design, and that is exactly what we created with this latest theme. Trim might be simple, but with that simplicity comes a sense of balance and crispness that I find quite refreshing. Coupled with a bunch of great features, I am confident that Trim will prove useful for a variety of our users. Live DemoFeatures Info   Fully Responsive Design Trim features a fully responsive design. This means that the theme will adapt to various screen sizes to insure that your content is…

  • SimplePress Now Fully Responsive

    Nick
    26 Apr 2012 | 1:59 pm
    As we continue our mission of making our most popular themes responsive, the next design to be updated has been SimplePress. The theme is now fully responsive, meaning that it will adapt to various screen sizes in order to display your content in the most readable manner. When viewed on your mobile phone or tablet, you will no longer need to zoom and scroll around to read the text on the page, making your mobile visitor’s browsing experience much more intuitive. If you don’t have a mobile phone, try simply re-sizing your browser window while viewing the theme demo to watch the…
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    ThemeForest new WordPress items

  • Natural - Powerful Responsive WordPress Theme (Portfolio)

    e404
    15 May 2012 | 7:04 pm
    Natural Theme is a responsive Premium WordPress Theme with a powerful, but easy to use, Admin Panel and near endless customization possibilities. You can create a corporate website, a personal portfolio or a professional looking weblog in just a few minutes. It requires no coding skills, but it also gives a lot of possibilities for experienced developers. Key features Powerful Unbranded Admin Panel (see screenshots) Unlimited home page layouts – home page is built with shortcodes, so you can customize it to your needs Shortcode Generator to insert shortcodes from the WordPress visual or…

  • Extensio - Elegant and Minimal Business WordPress (Business)

    AtiX
    15 May 2012 | 11:23 am
    Theme Description Extensio is a clean, modern and Powerful Professional Premium WordPress Theme suitable for any kind of corporate / business website. It comes with an impressive jQuery homepage slider with unlimited possibilities and options. Extensio also comes with 18 page layouts showcasing all the design flexibility your theme has to offer, including Columns, Tabs, Toggle Box, Button Styles, multiple Div layouts and much more. For your convenience Extensio comes with Wide and Boxed skins and 5 color styles to choose from. Infinite Desing Options in Extensio Control Panel. Create your own…

  • Twin - Creative Portfolio and Photography (Creative)

    SaurabhSharma
    15 May 2012 | 9:12 am
    Twin is a premium WordPress theme designed for Creatives and Photographers. The theme is exclusively crafted to showcase your artwork, photography and personal projects. Supported with decent blogging features and post formats, the theme is envisioned to provide you a unique and multi-purpose portfolio base. Live Demo Key Features Clean design, WordPress 3.3+ ready jQuery Masonry Layout with dynamic grid widths. (small, medium, and large) jQuery powered multi level dropdown menu (supported via WP Menus) Classic Masonry Template for Photography Grid style Blog Template 8 Custom Post Formats…

  • Sofa Lathika - responsive blog/portfolio (Personal)

    feeleep
    15 May 2012 | 8:13 am
    Sofa Lathika WordPress theme is primary made for bloggers. It takes behalf of WordPress post formats and custom post types in such way to allow users to maintain both Blog and Portfolio in fashionable manner. Different post formats are used to present information on modern and appealing way which makes blogging tidy, easy to navigate and visually more acceptable for visitors. Portfolio section is also built into Dashboard and ready for use so if you are in need to categorize and present your work – it’s gonna be easy! Colorscheme Picker allows you to change website color scheme by…

  • Fashy - Left & Right Layout Wordpress Theme (Blog / Magazine)

    gljivec
    15 May 2012 | 2:49 am
    Fashy is a Blog and Portfolio Premium Wordpress Theme, suited for users who want to run a professional or personal blog and wants to showcase your products, services or news with a unique looking website. Theme uses a layout that is a bit different then in most themes. You can choose to have either a left or right layout. Slideshows are a unique part of the theme and were inspired by a great site for tutorials called Tympanus. A big thanks to them for some piece of really great work! This Premium Wordpress Theme comes with a plethora of options so you can modify layout, styling, colors and…
 
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    Blog Oh Blog

  • WordPress Theme – Woody

    Jai
    26 Apr 2012 | 3:22 am
    Say hello to the brand new free WordPress theme – Woody. This theme comes with six color schemes – Blue, Black, Green, Maroon, Orange & Pastel (you can preview color schemes from the theme demo). The theme has inbuilt theme options for adding banners, advertisements and a featured video. It also includes two right side [...]

  • Review: MOO.COM Luxe Business Cards

    Jai
    2 Feb 2012 | 5:42 am
    We’ve been big fans of digital printing company MOO.COM for some time now, so when they reached out to us about their brand new product Luxe Premium Business Cards, we knew we just had to take a look.In case you’ve not come across MOO before, theyprint business cards, greeting cards,stickers,greeting cards, labels and much, much [...]

  • 20 High Quality Free Fonts

    Jai
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:56 pm
    Every time when you are working on a client project, there is this daunting task of finding fresh high-quality fonts from the Internet (free to use). There is a lot of choice available that makes people confused and ends in a lot of wasted time. I have searched for some good ones and listed them [...]

  • Happy New Year 2012!

    Jai
    31 Dec 2011 | 12:09 pm
    I wish all the people a very happy & prosperous 2012! Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Share this on Facebook Post on Google Buzz Add this to Google Reader Promote this on Orkut Share this on Technorati Share this on Tumblr Tweet This! Email this via Yahoo! Mail

  • WordPress Plugins for December 2011

    Jai
    17 Dec 2011 | 2:52 am
    This is a list of some cool WordPress plugins for December 2011 :- Social Social allows you to broadcast posts to Twitter and/or Facebook, pull in items from each as comments, and allow commenters to use their Twitter/Facebook identities Scripts n Styles Scripts n Styles allows Admin users the ability to add custom CSS (at [...]
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    WP Rocker

  • Look at These Gorgeous Blogs - WordPress.com

    15 May 2012 | 1:05 pm
    We’ve added a user showcase where you can view stunning customizations made by people just like you. From complete redesigns with CSS to adding pizzazz with Custom Fonts to clever use of options like background and header, this showcase will spark your imagination and inspire creativity. Discover..

  • Diary Of A WordCamp - Matt Mullenweg

    15 May 2012 | 10:41 am
    With all the hubaboo going on about WordCamps right now, it’s nice to read Siobhan McKeown’s Diary Of A WordCamp on Smashing WordPress, a great story about her experience at WordCamp Netherlands...

  • Dear theme developers, this is how you add scripts in WordPress themes - WPCandy

    14 May 2012 | 10:09 pm
    There are a lot of themes out there. And a ton of them are not including javascript files properly. So theme developers, please pay attention: this is how to include scripts in your themes properly. And guess what? It’s really easy.Let’s lay some groundwork:This example would go in your..

  • Photo Blogging 101, Part 1 - WordPress.com

    14 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Spring is in the air. With the weather warming up, now is a great time to get started on a photo blog. Creating a photo blog is a wonderful introduction to blogging on WordPress.com or an opportunity to refresh your current site. Ready to get started? You can sign up for a new blog right over here. ..

  • Tips and best practices to develop responsible websites - CatsWhoCode

    14 May 2012 | 9:42 am
    Start with a template Sure, you can start coding from scratch, but there’s a lot of interesting free templates that will make you save a lot of time. Among others, I recommend Mobile boilerplate, The 1140 grid and Skeleton. There’s a lot more than those ones, so feel free to google R..
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    WPBeginner

  • Beginner’s Guide to Preventing Blog Content Scraping in WordPress

    Editorial Staff
    16 May 2012 | 10:41 am
    If you write original content day in and day out, you already are aware of the fact that your posts will end up on bunch of SPAM sites within a few days sometimes even few minutes. Some users even noted that the site with stolen content outranked the original post. It is very frustrating as a website owner to see that someone is stealing your content without permission, monetizing it, outranking you in SERPs, and stealing your audience. Content Scraping is a huge problem these days considering that it is so easy for someone to steal your content. In this article, we will cover what is blog…

  • How to Put Your WordPress Site in Read Only State for Site Migrations and Maintenance

    Editorial Staff
    14 May 2012 | 10:05 am
    Managing a multi-author blog is a hard task on its own. It gets even harder during the maintenance times and site migrations. We have helped migrate numerous multi-author blogs to different hosting account, and the single biggest challenge was to keep everyone from making any new changes. We had to notify everyone multiple times to make sure that everyone got the memo. Well, recently we discovered a way to put WordPress in a Read-Only state which essentially freezes your entire site for all users on the backend. Meaning no changes are allowed thus making the maintenance and migrations much…

  • How to Add Odd/Even Class to Your Post in WordPress Themes

    Editorial Staff
    8 May 2012 | 9:05 am
    Often when designing a WordPress theme, designers choose to have different styling for odd/even comments. Recently while working on a design, we decided to have different styling for odd/even posts. To do this, we needed to add an odd/even class to appropriate posts. Sadly, this is not one of the default classes. In this article, we will show you how to add an odd/even class to your posts in WordPress Themes. Simply paste the following code in your theme’s functions.php file function oddeven_post_class ( $classes ) { global $current_class; $classes[] = $current_class; $current_class =…

  • How To Show Number of Queries and Page Load Time in WordPress

    Editorial Staff
    2 May 2012 | 5:35 am
    One of our users asked how do other sites show number of queries and page load time in the footer. You will often see this in the footer of sites and it may say something like: “64 queries in 1.248 seconds”. In this article, we will show you how to show number of queries and page load time in WordPress. Simply paste the following code anywhere you like in your theme files (such as footer.php). <?php echo get_num_queries(); ?> queries in <?php timer_stop(1); ?> seconds. And refresh the page. You will see the number of queries and the execution time. How To Show Number…

  • How to Disable Plugin Updates in WordPress and Why You Shouldn’t

    Editorial Staff
    30 Apr 2012 | 11:50 am
    One of our users asked if there was a way to disable plugin updates in WordPress? As we say it in the WordPress community, “there’s a plugin for that”. In this article we will answer the question how to disable plugin updates in WordPress, but we will also discuss why it is not a good idea to disable plugin updates. If you want to disable plugin updates, simply install and activate the plugin Disable WordPress plugin updates. Now lets discuss why you should not disable plugin updates entirely. First of all, there is NO benefit of disabling plugin updates. It is very…
 
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    Solostream

  • Premium WordPress Theme: WP-Mysterious 1.0

    Michael Pollock
    7 May 2012 | 2:32 pm
    We’re pleased to announce the release of our latest premium WordPress theme, WP-Mysterious. After many, many requests for a dark theme, we finally created one. We hope you enjoy it. Test-drive WP-Mysterious here …

  • WP-DaVinci 2.0 Premium WordPress Theme Now Available

    Michael Pollock
    26 Apr 2012 | 4:48 pm
    We’ve made several upgrades to WP-DaVinci, and I’d like to take a few minutes and talk about the major ones. If you’re using WP-DaVinci already, you’ll want to read over this to see what you’ll need to do to upgrade. Don’t worry though. It should be a ... Read More »

  • WP-Responsive Premium WordPress Theme

    Michael Pollock
    1 Dec 2011 | 2:36 pm
    Solostream is pleased to announce the release of WP-Responsive, a new premium WordPress theme designed mainly for folks who have or want to launch a business website. As its name suggests, this theme responds to your visitor’s screen size. That way, your site looks great on all ... Read More »

  • Solostream Helps Ace College Marketing Project

    Mike Durkin
    15 Nov 2011 | 1:24 pm
    A short while ago we received a request from Phil Deltatto, a student at the University of Connecticut, who decided that using a Solostream theme would be a great way to stand out in a marketing class of 100 students. We’ll use Phil’s words to let you ... Read More »

  • New Premium WordPress Theme: WP-ClearPhoto 1.0

    Michael Pollock
    31 Oct 2011 | 9:40 am
    Solostream is pleased to announce the release of WP-ClearPhoto 1.0, a new premium WordPress theme designed mainly for photography enthusiasts or anyone who has a portfolio of projects to show the world. With its clean, elegant design, it’s the perfect container to show off your great work, ... Read More »
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    Wordpress Jedi

  • 3 Effective Profanity Filters for WordPress

    Wordpress Jedi
    15 May 2012 | 10:59 am
    Depending on the type of community you run online, you may not want your members to post profanity or abusive comments to your site. You can always watch out for those types of comments manually. Here are 3 profanity filter plugins that make the job much easier.WP Content Filter: filters out profanity, abusive material, and other keywords of your choosing on your website. You can choose which parts of your website you want to filter and how the plugin should go about doing it. WebPurify Profanity Filter: a profanity filter web service that makes sure the wrong type of content don’t show…

  • 8 Awesome Clean Themes for WordPress

    Wordpress Jedi
    13 May 2012 | 11:29 am
    In the past few years, we have covered plenty of colorful themes for WordPress. Premium WordPress designs are great for folks who do not want to mess with a whole lot of coding. But if you know your way around CSS and PHP, there is no reason you should not use clean/blank theme frameworks to come up with a design unique to your site. Interested? These 8 clean theme frameworks are must-see:Headway: one of my favorite theme frameworks around. It has a powerful set of tools that make designing a site from scratch a piece of cake.Thesis: we have used Thesis for many projects in the past. It is…

  • 10 Beautiful Thesis Skins You Should See

    Wordpress Jedi
    11 May 2012 | 10:04 am
    The Thesis theme for WordPress does not need any introduction. It is one of our favorite frameworks around and is being used by some of the most famous bloggers and web publishers on the internet. The Thesis Theme framework makes putting together sophisticated WordPress sites easier. You can always come up with a unique design for it from scratch. These 10 beautiful Thesis skins save you some time getting your site online:Clip Cart: a stylish e-commerce child theme for Thesis or Genesis. It provides support for Cart66 WordPress plugin.Easy Thesis: this offers 8 color schemes and 3 widget…

  • Word Replacer: Replace Words in WordPress

    Wordpress Jedi
    9 May 2012 | 12:57 pm
    Have you ever been in a situation where you have needed to change a certain word across your whole website? Those of you who have a well established website with hundreds or thousands of pages are going to find that difficult to do manually. Thanks to Word Replacer, you can change words on your website quickly. All you have to do is provide it with a list of words you want to replace and leave the rest to this plugin.You can enter as many words as you want to replace on your website. While you may not want to make a habit of using this plugin to change words on your site, it is nice to have…

  • Social Login: Login with Social Network IDs

    Wordpress Jedi
    8 May 2012 | 11:58 am
    Social sites such as Facebook and Twitter have millions of members. Many of these folks visit your website too. Letting your visitors log on to your website using their social IDs is a smart idea. For starters, it makes the process more convenient for them. It also help your community gain more registered members. Social Login is a WordPress plugin that adds this functionality to your website.Social Login is developed to increase the level of engagement on your website. It is compatible with some of the most popular social networks including Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and LinkedIn. You…
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    The WordPress Experts - WPMU.org

  • Create Your Own Customized RSS Feed Ticker With Super RSS Reader

    Tom Ewer
    16 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    There is no doubting the fact that open source is awesome. But there is a blunt edge to the open source sword – the barriers of entry are non-existent. For every excellent WordPress plugin, there are 100 crap ones. It can often take a long time to sift through the garbage to find a diamond. With that in mind, I always like it when a plugin simply works. When it meets or even surpasses your expectations in carrying out a singular task effectively. Super RSS Reader is one such plugin. Check out this video for a quick overview: As you can see, Super RSS Reader allows you to place one or…

  • Free Template For Designing WordPress Admin Icons

    Sarah Gooding
    16 May 2012 | 12:29 pm
    Today we want to look at a new tool available for WordPress designers and plugin developers whose work requires custom admin icons. WordPress admin icons are important for branding your custom plugin in the dashboard. Web and UI designer Matthias Kretschmann has created a free template and code samples for designing your own admin icons. Custom admin icons are needed in when creating new custom post types, plugin settings and theme options pages. At the very least you will need three icons: two 16px icons for the admin menu, one non-colored and one colored icon for the hover state one 32px…

  • Anti-Splog 2.0 is Out! – New Features, Updated Design, Stronger than Ever

    Joseph Foley
    16 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    If you run a WordPress Multisite install, then one of your biggest challenges is combating splogs (spam blogs). Luckily, the FREE WPMUDEV Anti-Splog plugin was built to help you do just that. And its recent updates in Version 2.0 should help you do that even more. Here’s a look the new features in the latest release: (Note: The API service is only available with a paid membership.) Refreshed menu structure and admin screens New Pattern Matching functionality to block bots by signup patterns New Are You A Human PlayThru game captcha New blog and splog creation stats screen with pretty graphs…

  • Daily Tip: You Can Now Favorite Plugins on WordPress.org

    Sarah Gooding
    15 May 2012 | 9:33 pm
    There’s something new in the WordPress.org Plugin Repository and we think you’re going to like it. Logged in users can now favorite plugins. Any plugin that you favorite will show up on your profile listing at profiles.wordpress.org. This is a great way to keep track of the plugins that you want to remember, use often or want to recommend to others. Check it out at the plugin repository and start adding your favorites. Sarah Gooding on Google+

  • WP-ShowHide: Embed Text Within Your Posts With A Show/Hide Link

    Tom Ewer
    15 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    If you’re an experienced WordPress user, you may have heard of Lester Chan (otherwise known as “gamerz”). Lester is the author of no less than 19 plugins, of which 4 feature on the WPMU Top 100 Plugins list. That’s more than the likes of Joost de Valk, Automattic, or anyone else for that matter. I recently interviewed Lester for ManageWP, and so had the opportunity to take a closer look at all of his plugins. One that caught my attention in particular was WP-ShowHide. It is very simple, but what it does, it does well. The idea for WP-ShowHide came from the way in which…
 
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  • 3 Best WordPress Themes to Setup Spa Website

    Shiblee
    9 May 2012 | 9:21 pm
    Want to set up a gorgeous and professional spa website? Here are 3 excellent WordPress templates which are perfect for health and spa salon websites. Limon  Limon is the top class Health Spa  WordPress theme and it comes with professional and dashing design as well as functionality. Thus it is the best Spa WordPress theme

  • 6 Custom Login and Registration WordPress Plugins

    Shiblee
    9 May 2012 | 8:24 pm
    The default WordPress login page does not look attractive and if you are running a multi author blog it should be a separate and customized login page or a sidebar widget in your WordPress. There are many WordPress plugins who can add separate login page or login widget in your sidebar. Here we have listed

  • 15+ Fantastic Real Estate WordPress Themes 2012

    Aks
    9 May 2012 | 7:23 pm
    Here is the list of best Real Estate WordPress themes suitable for online real estate properties selling and listing. This list has been created based on best available themes in 2012. Real Estate business is growing rapidly via online. Because there is a great opportunity to spread real estate business online. WordPress is now a

  • Jobpress Professional- Best Job Board WordPress Theme- Review

    Shiblee
    9 May 2012 | 2:27 pm
    Do you want to start a professional job board website like Monster.com ? Jobpress is the unbelievable way to start full featured job board website using  WordPress which is the easiest way to setup a website. It is the unique WordPress theme by dailywp.com with which you can start an advanced job board website in

  • How to Control Pinging in WordPress

    Shams
    6 May 2012 | 12:49 am
    If you are on WordPress then your blog may be victim of innocent ping spamming penalty. As default WordPress pings your blog to many search engines and directories including Google every time you update your blog while editing. Many search engines consider it spamming if you ping them without any content update or ping rapidly
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  • Responsive Design Made Easy with Catalyst Theme

    David Pritchard
    15 May 2012 | 1:20 pm
    This week’s post continues to explore the Responsive Design functionality provided in Catalyst Theme. In the previous couple of posts, I’ve looked at the benefits, both to you as a site owner and your visitors, of using a Responsive WordPress Theme like Catalyst instead of other options that are available for displaying websites on mobile devices. I’ve also looked at the basics of how Responsive Design works by using the Media Queries feature in CSS3, and the main options that Catalyst provides for easily implementing Responsive Design on your site. Catalyst Responsive Design Options…

  • Catalyst Theme for Mobile Devices

    David Pritchard
    8 May 2012 | 6:02 am
    Last week’s post looked at why taking the approach of using Responsive Design when designing online solutions for mobile devices is so effective compared to alternatives, such as using plugins to generate mobile versions, or creating additional mobile specific sites etc. That discussed how using a Responsive Design approach, such as Catalyst Theme provides, means that you’re in control of how your site looks – and at all times on all devices, mobile or otherwise. This is not the case with the plugin options which usually utilise their own mobile friendly themes.  Likewise, using…

  • A Theme For All Devices

    David Pritchard
    1 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
    In this week’s post, I’m taking an overview of a major feature of Catalyst Theme, one that offers a huge benefit to both you and visitors to your website. It’s called Responsive Design. Simply put, Responsive Design allows the layout and content of your website to be automatically displayed in different ways to the person viewing, depending on the width of the web browser they are using. And Catalyst Theme provides it! Why is Implementing Responsive Design a Benefit to My Visitors? Due to their physical size, mobile devices such as Tablets, iPads, Smartphones etc, utilize smaller width…

  • More Catalyst Theme Backup Functionality

    David Pritchard
    24 Apr 2012 | 12:29 pm
    This week I’m continuing the theme of last week’s Feature of the Week Post that looked at the Backup and Restore functionality in Catalyst Theme. In the previous post I showed how the Catalyst Core & Advanced settings for the structural layout of a site can be exported and imported – either back into the same site or as the basis of a new site as required. Likewise, the hundreds of settings in the Dynamik Child Theme that form the styling and design options for the site can be exported as a Dynamik Skin for use as a backup for the same site or to be imported to provide the…

  • Backup Options in Catalyst Theme

    David Pritchard
    17 Apr 2012 | 12:58 pm
    The Feature of the Week series returns after a short break and this week I’m going to look at some of the Backup and Restore functionality that is provided in both Catalyst Theme and the Dynamik Child Theme options. Note that this functionality is not an alternative to plugins etc that backup and restore the WordPress database (or indeed whole site). Instead it provides some very useful options that can be used in a variety of ways to save, backup, restore and copy the theme settings. Let’s look at some of the main options provided. Catalyst Core & Advanced Settings The Import/Export…
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    Do It With WordPress

  • My Experience with MaxCDN as a CDN Provider

    Dave Clements
    10 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    Save 25% on HostGator hosting packages by using coupon DIWW25PCOFFOr save $9.94 by using coupon DIWWSAVE10Since starting Do It With WordPress, I’ve been on shared hosting (on the awesome HostGator of course) and originally relied on just that to serve up my site.As things started to get a little busier, I decided that a Content Delivery Network (CDN) would help. I started out by using Amazon S3, which isn’t technically a CDN, but helped me move the static files from my server anyway. Then after a while, I moved on to Amazon’s true CDN offering – Amazon Cloudfront.

  • What you Really Need to Know About WordPress & SEO

    Dave Clements
    7 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    Save 25% on HostGator hosting packages by using coupon DIWW25PCOFFOr save $9.94 by using coupon DIWWSAVE10Most of what you read about SEO is overhyped and a complete waste of time. It’s based on people going way over the top, thinking they can follow a magic formula to get into bed with Google and preaching their thoughts to the masses as if they developed Google’s algorithms themselves.I speak from experience, having built this site from the ground up, into a moderately busy and successful website in about a year. I don’t claim to have all the answers, but I want to give…

  • WP Theme Generator – Create your Own Theme in Minutes

    Dave Clements
    3 May 2012 | 7:30 am
    Save 25% on HostGator hosting packages by using coupon DIWW25PCOFFOr save $9.94 by using coupon DIWWSAVE10WordPress Theme Generator, from WordPress Theme Shock and iconShock is an excellent service that helps you build your own custom WordPress theme with ease.The serviceIt’s a service like I’ve never seen before. By going to their website, you can develop your own WordPress theme and see it come together before your very eyes.Once you arrive at WordPress Theme Generator, you’ll see a default theme, and a tool pane that allows you to customise most elements of the site, from…

  • ThemeFurnace – a Hot New WordPress Theme Store

    Dave Clements
    1 May 2012 | 6:25 am
    Save 25% on HostGator hosting packages by using coupon DIWW25PCOFFOr save $9.94 by using coupon DIWWSAVE10Oli Dale, who is perhaps most renowned for his awesome WordPress site, WPLift, has recently embarked on a new venture; his own theme store – ThemeFurnace.Oli brings years of top notch design experience to bring you some awesome Premium WordPress themes, for sale on a beautifully designed store.Currently, Oli has four themes on offer. What becomes apparent as you look over them is that they’re well thought-out and the themes have a lot of customisation options, but not so many…

  • Find and Replace Text on Every Post

    Dave Clements
    23 Apr 2012 | 8:00 am
    Save 25% on HostGator hosting packages by using coupon DIWW25PCOFFOr save $9.94 by using coupon DIWWSAVE10There have been multiple instances where I’ve needed to go over a site with a sweeping “find and replace” statement, to replace instances of one phrase and replace it with another.For example, you can use it to replace the URLs of images in all of your posts, if you move from Blogger for instance, or change domains, or to change markup for syntax highlighting if you change plugins, to Crayon Syntax Highlighter for instance.You can do this with a plugin like Search and…
 
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  • get_better_excerpt() for WordPress has been updated

    Christopher Ross
    16 May 2012 | 12:44 pm
    After reading a post on bavotasan.com about the new wp_trim_words() function in WordPress, I took a bit of time this morning to update my get_better_excerpt() plugin for WordPress to version 2.0, which now makes use of the new function. http://thisismyurl.com/downloads/wordpress-plugins/

  • Oops, I lost thisismyurl.com

    Christopher Ross
    16 May 2012 | 11:11 am
    This morning I had a problem running WordPress Multisite, it turns out that it was a simple error with file permissions but somehow in the process of updating the network settings and moving files around,  I managed to lose the theme for thisismyurl.com Not to worry, the content is all OK but the site design … not so much. As a result, the new and improved thisismyurl.com is really just the default TwentyEleven theme from WordPress while I try to decide what to do with the old theme, if you see anything funky on the site please let me know via Twitter!

  • Fetch Twitter Count for WordPress

    Christopher Ross
    14 May 2012 | 9:21 am
    Looking for an easy way to include your current Twitter count in WordPress? Here’s a simple piece of code I’m using to fetch and display the current Twitter count, it includes transient caching of one hour for your most recent Twitter count. /** * Summary returns the current follower count of a specific Twitter account, or FALSE if not found * @param String $twitter_username the username you wish to get a Twitter count for * @param Number $transient_cache the time in seconds to cache the transient (default is one hour) * @return String an unformatted number of followers from…

  • Five simple rules to writing a better blog

    Christopher Ross
    13 May 2012 | 1:07 pm
    Ernest Hemingway might have been onto something when he wrote that there is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. The same, not surprisingly holds true for writing on a blog. First off, be honest. The Internet is a huge place but it’s easily searchable. If you don’t take the time to be honest, people will figure it out pretty quickly. The same goes for social media, but it’s particularly true with writing your blog. Follow some simple advice, it’s easier to tell the truth than to try to cover it up later. Whenever possible, be…

  • Responsive Photography Website Design

    Christopher Ross
    2 May 2012 | 2:31 pm
    This week I decided to update my personal photography website and took advantage of a new responsive design template from c.Bavota, it wasn’t specifically developed to be a WordPress theme but was fairly easy to modify into a powerful WordPress theme. When I’m not busy developing websites for online media with Rodonic, I’m pursuing my first career choice as a photographer. While I appreciate I’ll never make a living as a creative artist, my love for the technical aspects of photography will never fade. The site however is pretty neat. As the web browser changes size,…
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    WPLift

  • How To: Add Custom Styles to the WordPress Visual Post Editor

    Noumaan Yaqoob
    16 May 2012 | 3:40 am
    WordPress comes equipped with a powerful visual editor called TinyMCE. This utility is itself a separate opensource project maintained and developed by MoxieCode Systems. TinyMCE is a powerful, platform independent, javascript based WYSIWYG editor. Apart from WordPress, it is used in my other content management systems. TinyMCE is like your regular rich text editors with lots of buttons to do different things. It is extendable just like WordPress and can be used to provide an extended user interface to users for writing posts. Most of the advanced buttons are hidden in the default WordPress…

  • Purchase Themes & Plugins Within WordPress with WP App Store

    Oli
    16 May 2012 | 3:15 am
    WP App Store is a new Marketplace for you to purchase themes and plugins from within your WordPress admin panel. It was created by Brad Touesnard with advisors, Adii Pienaar, Carl Hancock and Jason Cohen so it has a solid team behind it and it has signed up a load of great premium theme and plugin companies such as WooThemes, MintThemes, Obox, AppThemes, UpThemes and more. Watch this video to see how it works : I installed the plugin and have a look around, its pretty basic at the moment with the home screen looking like this : And here is the themes page, as you can see at the side is a …

  • Auto Post from WordPress to Pinterest – Free WordPress Plugin

    Oli
    15 May 2012 | 3:12 am
    WP-Pinner is a new WordPress plugin that’s currently in beta, which allows you to auto-post images from WordPress to Pinterest, Schedule Future Pins, Auto-Follow users and keep track of your account’s metrics such as CTR, clicks, likes, repins, reach, etc. Pinterest has grown to become a big source of traffic for some blogs now so you should be using it to grow your blog. Lets take a look at this plugin and see how it can help. WP Pinner is currently in beta but the first 25 WPLift readers can get in the next round by signing up with this link: Signup for the Beta Here » Install…

  • 25 New High Quality & Free WordPress Themes for May 2012

    Oli
    14 May 2012 | 3:32 am
    Once again, the brilliant theme designers have been busy and we have loads of great free WordPress themes for you this month, nice clean business theme, portfolio themes, responsive, sliders – you name it and we have you covered. Im working on another free theme myself at the moment so keep an eye out for that soon. Without further ado, I present 25 new free WordPress themes for may 2012… WordPress Wave ( Free for May Only ) The ideal portfolio or product showcase theme, WordPress Wave let’s you choose the exact colors or background patterns you want. Features » Demo »…

  • How To: Create a Business Directory like Yelp with WordPress

    Oli
    12 May 2012 | 3:27 am
    Vantage is the latest theme from AppThemes which allows you to turn WordPress into a full featured business listings directory such as Yelp.com which allows businesses to add themselves and let customers rate them and leave comments. The theme has built-in monetization options so you can charge for listings, featured listings or place advertisements. I’m a big fan of AppThemes and reviewed all their themes so far: Coupon Code Theme, Classified Ads Theme, Job Board Theme and Issue Tracking Theme so check those out for their other work. In this review I will be taking a look at installing…
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    How to Make a Website with Wordpress

  • SEO Vs PPC – 3 Ways to Decide Which to Use

    sam
    11 May 2012 | 1:38 pm
    There are a variety of ways to drive traffic to your website, and two of the main strategies are search engine optimization (SEO) and pay per click ads (PPC). Search engine optimization works in a variety of ways, but the most popular and common method of using SEO is to create content that makes frequent use of particular keywords. The goal of this content is to drive the website to the top of a search engine results page for particular keywords. The reason for this is that the higher the ranking on a search engine, the more likely someone is to visit the site. PPC is the other way that many…

  • 9 Factors to consider when designing your blog theme

    claudia
    6 May 2012 | 9:36 am
    If you have an idea of sharing your thoughts and interested in interacting with others on the Internet, then blogging is the right choice to implicate effectively. The blog is a unique website that displays entries or post in the chronological order. Moreover the web developers use blogs as online diaries, soap boxes and internet scrapbooks. Perhaps there are many free blogging service that can be developed by any individual. Hence it is important to remain active and enhance the number of users into your site. However there are around nine factors to be considered when you design your blog…

  • Website Optimization with Multivariate Testing

    elijah
    25 Apr 2012 | 10:30 am
    ab split testing Source: http://opensource.washingtontimes.com/blog/2011/jan/25/4-lessons-learned-about-multivariate-testing/ You’ve already launched your website, where the design process involved poring through books and consulting with professional designers. But there are obviously some things that still aren’t working at this point, because your sales are coming short of expectations. At this point, you’ve got to stop and think about your next step. Don’t immediately assume that what you need is more traffic; what’s equally important is figuring out a way to increase the…

  • Best Keyword Research Tool, Keyword Blaze Pro Review

    Webmasteradvance
    4 Apr 2012 | 6:05 pm
    My mentor told me several hours after this tool is launched, he said it’s the best keyword research tool he has ever tried. He made a list of the features and benefits, here they are: Server-side NO IP address blocked NO annoying captcha’s Instant ‘one-click’ evaluation on each ‘Magic Keyword Tagging’ = automatically generating high value “winning keywords” based on parameters that you set… but without you having to lift a finger. Generates random e-commerce markets where people are successfully selling physical products online…

  • Practical Twitter Fundraising Ideas & Tips

    sam
    4 Apr 2012 | 5:06 am
    In recent years, the use of social media sites for fundraising has been steadily growing. In particular, fundraisers have found that Twitter lends itself particularly well to fundraising efforts, and hundreds of thousands of dollars have been raised for a wide range of causes, organizations and charities through it. Fundraisers find it a powerful tool for spreading social awareness of worthwhile projects. Here are some ideas and tips for making Twitter work most effectively for your fundraising efforts. 1. Cultivate a strong audience The effectiveness of Twitter always correlates directly…
 
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    The Mighty Mo! Design Co. LLC » Blog

  • bp-custom.php vs. functions.php

    toby
    14 May 2012 | 10:44 am
    Up until today I did not know the difference between bp-custom.php and functions.php within a BuddyPress installation. It turns out that bp-custom.php is basically a functions file that is theme-independent. What that means is that if you have a function that you want to run irrespective of whatever theme is active, you put it in bp-functions.php. Pretty nifty!

  • Online WordPress Custom Taxonomy Creator / Generator

    toby
    11 May 2012 | 3:44 pm
    I have found this WordPress custom taxonomy code generator to be quite helpful. Check it out!

  • iPad and iPhone Adding Extra CSS Margin to Right Side of Window

    toby
    8 May 2012 | 10:41 pm
    <rant>I feel like I am starting from scratch every time I load a website I am building on the iPhone or iPad. Standards or no, there are some funky things that happen on those devices.</rant> Most recently, I have been wrestling with the fact that the iPad and iPhone seem to randomly add margins to the right of my content. After all sorts of late nights and code hacking, I finally discovered that I can define the width of the browser (as viewed by iPad and iPhone). Just add something like the following to the head of your html document (or WordPress theme): <meta…

  • CSS Body Class for BuddyPress Group Moderators and Admins

    toby
    8 May 2012 | 12:33 am
    I tend to use CSS to hide all sorts of things within the BuddyPress interface rather than unhooking functions. I find that it more quickly and flexibly accommodates my clients’ changing desires. Today I needed to add a css body class for group moderators and admins. The goal was to hide the “Admin” button for moderators but display it for admins. To pull it off, I added the following to my functions.php file: // Add "bp-group-moderator" to body_class function if we are on a BuddyPress-generated page…

  • More BuddyPress Conditional Tags

    toby
    7 May 2012 | 11:33 am
    Today I needed to create a BuddyPress conditional statement but none of the “normal” conditional tags suited my needs. Specifically, I needed to determine whether or not a user was a group moderator or admin role. The boolean that helps determine that can be found on the BuddyPress Function Reference page. There is lots of neat stuff there. Also on a somewhat related note, check out this list of BuddyPress global variables. You never know when you might need to display a BuddyPress user’s info within a conditional!
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    Wordpress Guerrilla

  • Love and Knuckles

    Mike
    27 Apr 2012 | 11:01 pm
    © WordPress Guerrilla - visit the WordPress Guerrilla website for more great content for wordpress designers, plug-in developers and bloggers.

  • Pulpfingers

    Mike
    5 Apr 2012 | 8:37 pm
    © WordPress Guerrilla - visit the WordPress Guerrilla website for more great content for wordpress designers, plug-in developers and bloggers.

  • Modernline

    Mike
    5 Apr 2012 | 8:36 pm
    © WordPress Guerrilla - visit the WordPress Guerrilla website for more great content for wordpress designers, plug-in developers and bloggers.

  • Trailer Park Truck

    Mike
    30 Mar 2012 | 1:28 pm
    © WordPress Guerrilla - visit the WordPress Guerrilla website for more great content for wordpress designers, plug-in developers and bloggers.

  • Lake Nona

    Mike
    30 Mar 2012 | 1:25 pm
    © WordPress Guerrilla - visit the WordPress Guerrilla website for more great content for wordpress designers, plug-in developers and bloggers.
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    Bob Dunn - WordPress Trainer and Coach

  • The Four-Letter Word Many WordPress Users Fear: CODE

    Bob Dunn
    3 May 2012 | 10:53 am
    Just yesterday I was reading a post about plugins—how many you should use, etc. One of the points was that numbers didn’t matter, it was more about quality. (I agree.) But one comment in the thread, which I will get to momentarily,  spurred me to write this post. If you visit WordPress.org, you will find [...]

  • RSS Feeds on Your Blog – A Goldmine!

    Bob Dunn
    1 May 2012 | 7:15 am
    When I create a website or blog, it’s second nature to me to add an RSS feed, as with most people. But often I do get the question asked why should I do this? What ends up happening is some short education for the client. What is a RSS feed? Who uses them? Why should [...]

  • How to include or exclude specific tags and categories from your front page, archives, search and feed.

    Bob Dunn
    26 Apr 2012 | 9:30 am
    Have you ever wanted to exclude or include certain categories or tags from your front page, archives, search and your feed? Or maybe you don’t want certain pages coming up when someone searches your site. The simply exclude plugin is your answer. In the video we will show you how to use it and give [...]

  • 6 Tips for Tasty Blog Post Headlines: Why Your Title Matters

    Bob Dunn
    24 Apr 2012 | 9:30 am
    How important are your blog post titles and what should a good headline do? In the words of master ad man David Ogilvy, “The purpose of a title is to get readers to read the first line of your content.” That’s good advice, plain and simple, because the words in your headline are the most [...]

  • 5 Tips for Creatively Using Custom Sidebars

    Bob Dunn
    19 Apr 2012 | 10:02 am
    When I first used the Headway theme, one of the things that attracted me to it was the ease of creating custom sidebars. But since then I have also used Woothemes, which have this option built in, and StudioPress, which has a great plugin built just for Genesis and its child themes. So, you may be [...]
 
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    kevinleary.net

  • Fixing WordPress Upgrades & Plugin Installations with MAMP Pro Localhost

    Kevin Leary
    20 Apr 2012 | 9:47 am
    I do all of my WordPress development locally, and typically deploy that to a staging server, or sometimes a live server, using Beanstalk’s SVN deployment feature. I use a Mac for development, and MAMP Pro to run a localhost environment with multiple hosts (local.website1, localhost.website2, etc.). Occasionally I need to upgrade or install WordPress plugins [...]

  • Responsive Video Embeds Plugin Example

    Kevin Leary
    15 Apr 2012 | 1:36 pm
    This is a test page for the Responsive Video Embeds plugin. Re-size the browser and watch the videos automatically scale to fit the resolution. The resizing effect on this page can be a little bit choppy at times, mostly due to the fact that we’re loading and resizing far too many videos for a single [...]

  • Cloudflare & TimThumb Issues

    Kevin Leary
    13 Apr 2012 | 2:18 pm
    During the process of migrating the DNS for Openviewpartners.com to Cloudflare we experienced some issues with the TimThumb image resizing script. Specifically, Cloudflare was blocking Timthumb from displaying images, resulting in broken links across the network. ## The Solution Cloudflare was incredibly responsive on Twitter, and discovered that the issue was solved by turning off [...]

  • The Charity Dilemma

    Kevin Leary
    30 Mar 2012 | 12:09 pm
    For the past 4 years or so I have been sharing lessons I learn in my day-to-day work here at kevinleary.net/blog. Sharing my experiences working with WordPress and other open-source web technology is something that I truly enjoy.I am grateful for the fans I have gained, arguments I have sparked, and people I have helped. [...]

  • Get the Current Theme Template Filename in WordPress

    Kevin Leary
    15 Mar 2012 | 12:32 pm
    Lately I find myself re-using these handy bits of code in many of my WordPress themes. They will help you identify the name of the current template file being used in the front-end or admin. If you’re interested in checking against the current theme template then you should check out the core is_page_template() function. In [...]
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    Pingable : New Internet Media

  • Great Resources to Learn WordPress

    Cyrus
    10 May 2012 | 6:55 pm
    WordPress is simple, powerful and easy to learn.  But it still takes some time to learn to be a pro.  And you will never know everything there is to know about this amazing blogging platform.  As each version comes out, there are new features and structures to understand.  There is always a new trick or tip, no matter how long you have been working with WordPress. These are a few excellent resources help you learn WordPress.  These are targeted to both experts and newbies. 1. The official documentation.  This is regularly updated by a slew of editors and developers.  Most often, if you…

  • 50 Amazing Free and Premium WordPress Themes for Photographers

    Dusty
    1 May 2012 | 6:35 pm
    WordPress is many things: a blog, a business site, a portfolio, a resume and even a community.  But it can do one thing incredibly well: handle media.  That is why WordPress is perfectly set up to be a platform for photographers.  It processes media fast, and comes with a number of different uploading and editing options.  Of course, you need the right theme to pull an amazing WordPress photography site.  Check out these 50 Amazing WordPress Themes for Photographers.  You may also be interested in our previous article about WordPress Photo Gallery Themes.  The kindest compliment you…

  • WordPress Theme Generator: Custom wp themes in no time

    Simon Ward
    29 Apr 2012 | 7:35 pm
    When it comes to custom WordPress themes design the usual way to go is building on top of a base theme or framework, and there are tons of such themes out there, yet, the problem with such themes is that they are too ”basic”, usually lacking a richer and eye-catching design, which leads to time and resources consuming work on both graphics and css to get a professional-looking theme. It is here that a new tool called WordPress Theme Generator comes forward to help. Using it’s solid and clear interface you can create a custom theme in no time with more than 1000 predesigned…

  • New Premium Theme Resource

    Dusty
    20 Apr 2012 | 7:07 pm
    PremiumThemeFinder.com is a new resource by the creators of Pingable. PremiumThemeFinder was invented, as most things, out of necessity.  The creator found himself looking for a premium theme, needing to bounce between memorable theme developers.  It wasted time and energy and caused him to forget the lesser known theme developers. WordPress users looking for their next premium theme just select tags that describe the theme they’re looking for, and filter through tons of themes really fast. PTF has a simple purpose: to be a single source premium theme browser that is free, easy-to-use…

  • Excellent Free and Premium WordPress Magazine Themes for 2012

    Dusty
    10 Apr 2012 | 6:51 pm
    Online magazines are not just for major publication companies, with the some energy and a great WordPress magazine theme, anyone can create one.  If you are willing to put in time and very little money can create a wildly successful magazine.  Just look at Huffington Post, started by an individual in her home, recently sold to AOL for $315 million.  Overpriced?  Perhaps, but Ariana Huffington isn’t complaining! The following are some great WordPress magazine themes.  They are well designed, bring lots of organizational function to the WordPress site, and are fun to navigate.  We…
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  • New Changes for Affiliate Commission

    Amirul Faisyal
    21 Apr 2012 | 3:04 am
    This announcement is specially for all our affiliates. This is something that took us some time to decide because will have pretty significant effect to you as our affiliate. Beginning on our next theme release, we are going to decrease the amount of commission from 40% (that we currently pay for our existing themes) to 30%. It is not done for the purpose of increasing the bottom line of ours. And the real reason is, based on our past sales we notice that 40% of commission didn’t give us much spaces to ‘breath’. Thus in order to help us keep ‘breathing’, we…

  • Introducing Evolution – Our First Tumblr-Like WordPress Theme!

    Amirul Faisyal
    15 Apr 2012 | 2:53 pm
    It’s been a while since our last release, Typozine. Typozine is a product of our ‘experimentation’ with simple & minimalist design, in which it receives a lot of praises from our customers (due to the simplicity it has to offer). From that, we did learn something - simplicity rules. While we believe design could be the x-factor of whether the theme is going to make or break, the lessons that we gained from Typozine has brought us to another level of understanding what our customers really want. Feedback that we received from Typozine motivates us to produce better theme…

  • Evolution

    izuddinhelmi
    15 Apr 2012 | 2:33 pm
    WordPress Premium Theme with clean design and dynamic. Best suits for for personal blogs that want a lot of advertisement/widget space.

  • Cool Tool – Where’s The Fold?

    Amirul Faisyal
    30 Mar 2011 | 1:35 pm
    Cool Tool – a new section we introduced on KreativeThemes’ news blog where we will share tools and apps (free and paid) that we use and feel great about it. Do you want to learn which area of your site got viewed by visitors? Try this cool free tool, FoldTester.com: This tool is really useful for you to see which portion of your site that get most of the visitors’ first time attention and with that result you can do some improvements in order to increase the page’s goals. To use it, what you need to do  is just enter your site’s URL on the box and click go. See…

  • Typozine Tips – Get More Typography Awesomeness With WP Google Fonts

    Amirul Faisyal
    24 Feb 2011 | 3:26 pm
    Simple tips for today – if you want to get more typography awesomeness with Typozine (or your other WordPress theme), I’d suggest you to use WordPress Google Fonts plugin made by Adrian3 here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-google-fonts/ Below are the examples of what you can get with the plugin on Typozine: Typozine with Arimo Font Family: Typozine with Krank Font Family: Typozine with Philosopher Font Family: …any many more! So what you should do now? Get Typozine (while it’s still on 20% discount – use ‘typozine20′), install WordPress…
 
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    Digging into WordPress

  • Complete List of Default WordPress Files

    Jeff Starr
    3 May 2012 | 2:34 pm
    When cleaning up hacked sites and testing .htaccess tricks, it’s nice to have a list of WordPress directory and file names for checking patterns and finding strings directly via Search/Find. Especially when working remotely, having a complete list of WordPress files available online can help expedite the attack-recovery process. The official Codex page lists some important files, but only for WP version 2.x and doesn’t seem to list files located in all sub-directories. Sure it’s not the most exciting topic in the world, but it’s always good practice to know thy files.

  • Poll: www. or no www.?

    Jeff Starr
    2 May 2012 | 7:20 pm
    This one’s self-explanatory, but a lot has changed so I thought I’d poll one up to see what people think. It seems there are a lot more sites these days without the www. in their canonical URLs, but a lot of big sites continue to include the “www” subdomain (think Google home page). Which one is best? Let’s find out.. In this poll, you’re asked whether you prefer URLs with or without the extra www. subdomain. But you have to choose one or the other — no “other/undecided” votes allowed on this one ;) Okay, drumroll please.. Note: There is a…

  • Attach Unattached Media Files

    Jeff Starr
    1 May 2012 | 11:24 am
    Attaching any unattached media files that you may have floating around is a good way to keep things organized and running smooth. Normally, when you’re working on a post in the Edit Post screen, you click the Upload/Insert button and use the nifty drag-n-drop media uploader to get ‘er done. When you upload your media files in this manner, WordPress “knows” that you want to attach the file to that particular post. Super straightforward sure, but there are situations where WordPress doesn’t know which post to use. In this DigWP post, we walk through the process of…

  • Measuring Latency with Apache Bench

    Austin Gunter
    16 Apr 2012 | 1:31 pm
    One of the important factors in the speed of your site is the distance between your servers and the browser visiting your site. The time it takes the information to travel from the server to the browser is called latency. Latency increases with distance, so no matter how fast your servers may be, high latency can make your site load slowly for visitors who are geographically removed from your servers. Since there are plenty of places to measure your site speed online, this article goes into detail of how to measure your site latency using Apache Bench. This is helpful because you’ll…

  • Don’t fork your theme, flex it with “is_plugin_active” conditional

    Peter Shackelford
    4 Apr 2012 | 12:49 pm
    Donkey Work Donkey work is really the last thing I want to be doing. Piddly tasks that could have been avoided with a little thought and perspective. Below I explain how I worked my way away from becoming a donkey with a dozen child themes to manage and maintain, with just a little knowledge of a native wordpress function. The details. I am running a multisite that predominately uses a single child theme. Each site has it’s separate color scheme applied through a few lines of css. Where sites need unique functionality, functionality plugins are used. These contain custom post types, rss…
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  • WP Theme: RealPro for Real Estate

    Genkisan
    15 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    We’re really proud of how clean, modern and urban this theme looks, and think an agent who, for instance, represents luxury condos in a metropolitan area would be able to use it pretty much out of the box and look 100x slicker and more professional than their competition while still meeting all of their functional needs. Studiopress Key Features of RealPro Featured property slider Advanced property search 6 layout options Auto thumbnail resize Widget-ready Built in SEO for posts and pages Based on the advanced Genesis framework Price/Preview/Download Single License – $99.95 Demo |…

  • WP Theme: Sharpness for Photography

    Genkisan
    15 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    With minimum distracting imagery and white background, Sharpness is able to maintain the focus on the pictures, letting photography steals the show. Colorlabs Project Key Features of Sharpness Responsive design for all screen sizes and devices Awesome hover effect and photo details Profile detail with a rounded thumbnail Big slider for portfolio thumbnails Display Exif data Automatic thumbnail resizer Social media ready Widgets ready Theme admin options Price/Preview/Download Single License – $79.00 Demo | Download Niche Tags: Blogging, Photo, Portfolio

  • WP Theme: Gridoo for Portfolios

    Genkisan
    9 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    A modern dynamic grid based theme that seamlessly loads new posts on the fly, therefore rendering a smooth and enjoyable user experience. WPZoom Key Features of Gridoo Responsive layout Featured posts slider Layout Editor Shortcodes Automatic image resizing Dropdown multilevel menu Social media ready Ads ready Price/Preview/Download Single License – $34.95 Demo | Download Niche Tags: Blogging, Photo, Portfolio

  • WP Theme: Magazine Explorer

    Genkisan
    9 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    A spacious magazine-style theme… nice clean and minimal design, fully satisfied from someone who love magazines WPZoom Key Features of Magazine Explorer Responsive layout Featured content slider Automatic image resizing Dropdown multilevel menu Social media ready Ads ready Price/Preview/Download Single License – $69.00 Demo | Download Niche Tags: Blogging, Magazine, News

  • WP Theme: Mindstream for Tumblogs

    Genkisan
    8 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Easily display your most inspired content with the brilliant, streamlined style Studiopress Key Features of Mindstream Responsive design 3 layout options Widget-ready Built in SEO for posts and pages Based on the advanced Genesis framework Price/Preview/Download Single License – $79.95 Demo | Download Niche Tags: Blogging, Tumblog, Tumblr
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  • WP Mysterious – A Professional Dark WordPress Theme with a Responsive Design

    PremiumWP
    15 May 2012 | 9:07 pm
    WP-Mysterious is a dark coloured premium WordPress theme with a professional design from Solostream. The theme has a mobile ready responsive layout and is suitable for a variety of website types including a professional or personal blog, online magazine or a business website. WP Mysterious is packed with features including: 2 featured article sliders, multiple homepage layouts and multiple post / page layout options, portfolio and video templates, extensive settings page and more. Alternative Homepage Layout Features Responsive Design Framework (Mobile Ready) – Adjusts to Browser Size Theme…

  • Trim – A Professional, Versatile & Responsive Premium WordPress Theme

    PremiumWP
    14 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Trim is a simple and fast WordPress with a professional, versatile and lightweight design suitable for a variety of different websites. The premium theme from Elegant Themes also has a fully responsive design meaning the theme will adapt to any screen size to insure that your content is readable on any device. Other features include an optional blog style structure, 3 alternative sliders, advertising management options, and a control panel with heaps of customisation options for colours, fonts, backgrounds and much more. Features Fully Responsive Design – adapts to your user’s…

  • Break Out WordPress Business Theme

    PremiumWP
    13 May 2012 | 3:26 pm
    Break Out is a clean and stylish WordPress theme from Business Bundle suited for any business, portfolio or photography website. Features include 4 featured slider options, 60 useful shortcodes, 4 colour styles, custom portfolio templates, custom logo / branding, extensive theme admin panel and more. Features 60 Useful Shortcodes – makes it easy to add buttons, toggles, sliders and more Featured Content Slider – comes with a unique nivo slider and also an accordion slider Contact Forms 4 Colour Styles Extensive theme admin panel Integrated blog section Related Posts Threaded…

  • The Regal Responsive WordPress Theme

    PremiumWP
    12 May 2012 | 3:25 pm
    Regal is a unique premium WordPress theme with a responsive design from Ink Themes. The theme could be used for a business website, portfolio website, personal website, hotel website, wedding website or anything else you can imagine. Features include 8 colour scheme options, gallery template, multi-use slider, theme options panel and more. Features Theme Options Panel Responsive Design – works on all screen display and devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Android device, laptop & desktop) Multiple Slides Support (6 images in slider) (Images/Video) 8 Built-in Colour Schemes Gallery /…

  • Invo Freelance Business WordPress Theme

    PremiumWP
    11 May 2012 | 3:24 pm
    Invo is a premium WordPress theme from Themes Kingdom designed for people running a freelance business. The theme includes a range of custom features required for a freelance business website including: a client contact form for requesting quotes, a client login form and special client dashboard in the backend, client invoicing, 2 inbuilt payment gateways, and a portfolio template to showcase you work. Features Client Form Client Area Client Invoicing 2 Payment Gateways – PayPal and 2Checkout Portfolio Template Custom Theme Admin Panel Shortcodes Generator Google Maps Integration Custom…
 
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  • Enter to WIN WPSwitch.com! You Can WIN This Website

    Jeff
    8 May 2012 | 8:34 am
    Thanks for subscribing! WP Switch - WP Switch - Premium WordPress Themes and Design BlogI’m doing something crazy right now and raffling off this website to one lucky winner in promotion to a new report that I just finished with on making money with WordPress affiliate programs. If you are interested please check it out. There are more details about the site on that page.  Raffle ends June 8th 2012. It’s super simple to enter, see details below.  Best of luck!     a Rafflecopter giveaway

  • 120 WordPress Themes for Photographers

    Jeff
    12 Mar 2012 | 12:23 pm
    Thanks for subscribing! WP Switch - WP Switch - Premium WordPress Themes and Design BlogHere’s an ultimate list of WordPress themes for photographers both free and paid.  I decided it was time to revisit the world of photography based themes.  I get asked a lot about what themes are good for photography and it helps for me to keep a list handy as a reference.  Some themes might not look like photography themes off the bat, but to the trained eye you can re-purpose almost any theme to be geared around your photos.  Having said that, this list of themes should work perfectly for any…

  • 72 Responsive WordPress Themes

    Jeff
    11 Mar 2012 | 6:51 pm
    Thanks for subscribing! WP Switch - WP Switch - Premium WordPress Themes and Design BlogAs the world gets more and more mobile with each passing day it’s important to realize more of your visitors will be visiting your website on their mobile devices.  That’s why within the last year Responsive WordPress themes have become hugely popular.  Responsive WordPress themes are ones where the layout expands or contracts to fit the viewers screen no matter if they’re on a 30″ monitor or a tiny 3 inch iPhone screen.  If you know your visitors are viewing your site from…

  • 40 Fullscreen WordPress Themes

    Jeff
    6 Mar 2012 | 3:58 pm
    Thanks for subscribing! WP Switch - WP Switch - Premium WordPress Themes and Design BlogIt seems like just last year fullscreen WordPress themes just started to capture some momentum within the theme development community and now…well you can see that there was clearly a demand for them.  Fullscreen or full bleed WordPress themes empower photographers and creatives to display their photos in a bold manner.  It’s no wonder they have become so wildly popular over the last 18 months it seems. Listed in no particular order, (although I did list some of the top sellers first as they…

  • 10 Free Resources for Learning WordPress

    Paul
    30 Sep 2011 | 2:39 pm
    Thanks for subscribing! WP Switch - WP Switch - Premium WordPress Themes and Design BlogI’ve been working with WordPress for more than two years now and it’s hard to remember how it felt when I just got started. I do know that it’s important to have some sort of guide to learn the basics and get acquainted with somthing new. I thought it would be handy to compile a list of what I consider to be the best free resources for beginners to get up and running with WordPress. I divided them into written guides and downloadable PDF files, and video screencast tutorials. Written…
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    TutsPress | WordPress Tutorials, Themes and Web Design Blog 2012

  • Invo, A Professional WordPress Theme for Running Freelance Business

    TutsPress
    12 May 2012 | 4:50 pm
    The Invo premium WordPress theme is a super freelance business, portfolio or personal blogging theme release from Themes Kingdom web design and development club. You can build very professional portfolio sites with this theme. The Invo coming very special overviews like : PayPal integration and payment gateway ready, email newsletter form included, custom login / register box included, search engine friendly and optimized, awesome Themes Kingdom theme admin panel and more much overviews included the theme. So the Invo is a awesome theme for running freelance business. Simple communication…

  • 1000+ Awesome Free Apollo GUI Set Elements

    TutsPress
    12 May 2012 | 3:43 pm
    Today we share a super freebie post for our subscribers & readers. This is “1000+ high-quality and awesome freebie Apollo GUI set elements”. The GUIs they created may be then passed to web developers in order for them to crop the GUIs into pieces that can be later converted to HTML/CSS. So it is the professional useful GUI set bundle you can find, with 1000+ top best gui sets, icons, slider elements, etc. for web designers and developers ready to download 100% free for personal usage. We are including source files, png and PSD files to the zip. So please use 7zip to unzip the…

  • Papuros, A Magazine Style Premium WordPress Theme by ColorLabs

    TutsPress
    10 May 2012 | 10:23 am
    If you are looking a special personal blog or magazine news WordPress theme for your new products, the Papuros WordPress theme ideal for you. The theme release from Colorlabs & Company web design and development club. This theme full responsive mobile devices ready, search engine friendly, comes grey white and brown color schemes, social media profiles included with custom icons and more! Don’t forget to check our ColorLabs & Company archives for more beautiful themes like this.! Papuros Theme Overviews : Headline slider Two homepage alternative layouts Gallery page template…

  • Decor is a Professional WordPress Blogging Theme by StudioPress

    TutsPress
    10 May 2012 | 10:09 am
    Latest theme release from StudioPress web design club (Genesis theme framework) today. The Decor theme is a full responsive magazine news personal blogging style WordPress site template. The Decor looks very special and beautiful layout options like 1-2-3 columns or left right sidebar sections, search engine optimized, email newsletter form and custom StudioPress widgets included.Don’t forget to visit our Genesis theme framework archives for more  beautiful WordPress themes like this. Decor Theme Overviews : 4 Special Color Styles, Custom Theme Admin Panel Search Engine Friendly 6…

  • WP-Mysterious, Premium WordPress Blogging Theme by SoloStream!

    TutsPress
    10 May 2012 | 9:32 am
    Latest premium WordPress theme is WP-Mysterious! release from SoloStream web design and development club. If dark and mysterious is your thing, you might like SoloStream WP-Mysterious theme, The theme full customization widgets and advertising areas, all major browsers and WordPress 3.3.2 compatible, search engine friendly and SEO optimized, full responsive layout design, unlimited colors and social media profiles included. Build your own personal blogs with the theme very easily! Don’t forget to visit our SoloStream archives for more creative WordPress themes! WP-Mysterious Theme…
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  • Heading to BlogWorld & News Media Expo

    dremeda
    15 May 2012 | 7:09 pm
    I will be at BlogWorld Expo in New York next month. If you’re going, drop me a line.See you there!

  • Sucuri Security is Hiring: Junior Support Analyst

    dremeda
    24 Feb 2012 | 3:50 pm
    We’re hiring a Junior Support Analyst.

  • WordCamp Atlanta – WordPress End-User Security

    dremeda
    3 Feb 2012 | 10:50 am
    Hey all, at WordCamp Atlanta, and having a blast. Here’s the revamped WordPress End-User Security discussion for 2012. Why My Website Sells Viagra View more presentations from Dre Armeda

  • WP Late Night – A WordPress Podcast

    dremeda
    4 Jan 2012 | 5:29 pm
    Join Ryan Imel from WPCandy, Brad Williams from WebDevStudios, and myself for the first WP Late Night. We’ll be broadcasting live video tonight at 8PM EST.Show info on WPCandy

  • My WordPress Tattoo

    dremeda
    23 Dec 2011 | 12:46 pm
    I love ink, and I have been wanting to start on my sleeves for a long time. I broke down yesterday and got it going with the addition of the WordPress logo on my left arm. I worked with Alain over at Skullhaus in Murrieta, CA. Clean StartPrep WorkThe OutlineShading and ColorThe Final Product
 
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    Web Training Wheels

  • WordPress Sites That Don’t Look Like WordPress Sites

    Lucy
    16 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    For a presentation I was giving recently, I wanted to find examples of WordPress sites that didn’t look like your typical WordPress sites. I wanted to show the versatility of WordPress, since many people still think it’s just used for blogs and think all WordPress sites look the same. So here’s a few of my favorite examples of custom WordPress sites that break the mold. Twisted Sista A slick showcase of hair products :: Visit Site Moment Church A beautiful design and unique layout defy all WordPress expectations :: Visit Site   Wolverine Worldwide Wolverine represents…

  • My Three Favorite Backlink Research Tools for SEO

    Lucy
    14 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    One of the most important factors in off-site Search Engine Optimization (SEO), is backlinks. A backlink is simply a link from another website, to your website. Search engines see links as “votes”, so the more links, and quality, relevant links at that –  you have pointing to your site, the better. All else being equal, if you can get better backlinks than your competitors, you can outrank them. Given its importance to SEO, it’s frustrating that there isn’t one solidly reliable (free) tool with which to do backlink research. Backlink research can help you : Find…

  • How To Back Up Your WordPress Site To DropBox

    Lucy
    8 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Backing up your WordPress site is a necessity, but it can be hard to find an affordable, easy-to-implement solution that covers all the bases. I’m always on the hunt for the best solution, and the method presented here is just one of several possible solutions. Here are some of my ideal criteria for a backup solution: Ability to back up both database and files Ability to schedule these backups separately – I haven’t found too many situations where a full file backup is needed as frequently as the database backup Offers backup to an off-site 3rd party. You don’t want to…

  • How To Change The Color Of The Thesis Comment Box

    Lucy
    24 Apr 2012 | 8:08 pm
    Since I’ve had a few clients that have been using the Thesis theme, I’ve learned a thing or two about it, and have written a couple posts in the past. On one of those posts I received a question about changing the color of the comment box in Thesis and thought I would respond with a screencast. You’ll find the code snippets mentioned in the video,at the bottom of the post. /* This changes the background color of the comments box */ .custom #comment_list { background-color: #ccc; } /* This changes the text of the comments themselves */ .custom #comment_list .format_text p {…

  • How to Have Different Sidebar Content On Different Pages of Your WordPress Site

    Lucy
    10 Apr 2012 | 1:59 pm
    Many WordPress themes do not yet provide a way to have totally different sidebar content on different pages of your site. Some may provide a little flexibility with, for example a sidebar for the blog and a different sidebar for static pages, but sometimes you need more comprehensive control – for example you may need an additional set of navigation on a certain set of sub-pages. There’s several different plugins that help you gain this type of flexibility with your site. Display Widgets The Display Widgets plugin is perhaps the simplest and most user-friendly option. After…
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    WPKube

  • Want to be the First to Use This Pinterest Plug-In?

    Brian Patterson
    11 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    The web was abuzz last month when a study came out declaring that Pinterest now drives more traffic to blogs that Twitter. I’ve read through the findings and it is still incredibly amazing to me. I mean, come on, Pinterest is like 6 months old and it’s sending more traffic to sites than Twitter?  Wow. So, we got to thinking, what can we do to get more of our content pinned. The way we saw it, the more we could entice people to pin our stuff, the more likely we were to bathe in all that glorious Pinterest traffic. Sure, we’ve seen the ‘Pin It’ button that…

  • How to Customize WordPress Blog Design?

    Sergey
    7 May 2012 | 9:33 am
    WordPress is one of the most handy and practical content management systems (CMS) for a custom website or blog. However, non-programmers often find it confusing to go beyond a standard pattern and create something unique. Fortunately, there are some techniques that allow anyone to customize design of a WordPress website or blog easily with few or no programming skills at all. Let’s have a closer look. WordPress Themes There are two types of WordPress themes available on the web: Free; Paid. You can download thousands of free WordPress themes from special web resources. The main…

  • How Your WordPress Blog can Bring Success to Your Job Hunt

    Matt
    3 May 2012 | 11:27 am
    Finding a job in an unstable economy is difficult whether you just graduated college or recently ended your long-term employment. Despite the obstacle that this task poses, job-seekers can improve their chances of success by utilizing as many resources as possible. Blogging is one particular strategy that allows you to show off your writing skills and creativity, while connecting with professionals and interested individuals throughout your prospective industry. WordPress is a great platform for starting your professional blog because it features a user-friendly interface and share-friendly…

  • Weekly Roundup: The Best WordPress Resources from Around the Web

    Devesh
    29 Apr 2012 | 12:07 pm
    As it’s the weekend, maybe you have a little time to catch up on your reading. This post is part of a weekly series, Weekly Roundup. Feel free to read and enjoy some of these great posts I have found this week. There have been some great tutorials and news from the WordPress community. Here are some of the best articles I have read, shared, commented and retweeted on @wpkube. WordPress Tutorial: The Proper Way to Upgrade to WordPress 3.3.2 Jim Jupiter shared a fantastic guide & video for upgrading to WordPress 3.3.2. If you have never upgraded your blog or had issues than this is the…

  • Should You Add a Donation Button to Your WordPress Blog?

    DanielaBaker
    26 Apr 2012 | 12:06 pm
    Adding a donation button to your WordPress blog is really simple. You can use a Paypal button or other widgets to invite and allow readers to donate to your blog freely, rather than – or along with – ads that can bring income to your blog. If you’re considering adding a donation button, take some time to think through your decision, asking yourself the following questions: Does your blog support a non-profit? If your blog supports a non-profit organization, whether it’s a local religious organization, a politically active organization, or even a local animal rescue group, then…
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    WP Garage

  • Data Serialization, WordPress, and my new best friend

    Rebecca Markowitz
    3 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Recently, Miriam wrote about Data Serialization and what a pain in the tuchus it can be to migrate a site that has serialized links in the database. So, today, when I migrated one of our client’s sites from our staging server to the live/production server, I was frustrated that some of the widgets weren’t showing up properly after my usual Search and Replace of the old URL to the new URL in the database, yet excited that I could read her post to find a solution. Frustrexcited, if you will. Here are the solutions I tried and read on to see which one actually worked: WP Live Server…

  • How to fix apostrophes turning into slashes in WordPress

    Rebecca Markowitz
    15 Apr 2012 | 8:58 am
    We build our sites with a custom theme options panel in the Dashboard so that clients can manage as much of their site on their own as possible. All seemed fine and dandy until the client threw in an apostrophe! The chutzpah. Can’t you just use “We will” instead of “We’ll”? The problem was that when an apostrophe was entered into a custom text label in the options panel, a slash decided to come along for the ride. Example: Instead of seeing “We’ll send you a link”, the site displayed “We\’ll send you a link”. I searched…

  • How to list subpages with a title and excerpt in WordPress

    Rebecca Markowitz
    12 Apr 2012 | 3:55 am
    We developed a site that has really rich subpages (child pages) but the parent page is mostly a blank placeholder that directs people to the subpages. Instead of merely leaving a blank parent page, we wanted to give a preview of the content on each of the subpages. I found the code for how to do it in this post, Display title & excerpt of child pages.   get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb-&gt;posts WHERE post_parent = ".$post-&gt;ID." AND post_type = 'page' ORDER BY menu_order", 'OBJECT'); ?&gt; This post was originally published at How to list subpages…

  • Data portability and data serialization in WordPress

    Miriam Schwab
    10 Apr 2012 | 8:46 am
    Over at illuminea, we’ve been migrating WordPress sites for years. So we thought we’d seen it all when it came to WordPress migration. And yet, recently we encountered an issue that we had never dealt with before, that puts a snag in the ease with which you can move WordPress sites: data serialization. One of the reasons we love WordPress is because it’s so future-proof. What I mean by that is that once you have created a WordPress site, you aren’t stuck where you are for the following reasons: Content is separate from form so at any point you can completely redesign your site while…

  • Disclaimer popups before sending an email or submitting a comment using simple jQuery in WordPress

    Rebecca Markowitz
    28 Mar 2012 | 9:27 am
    Several of our clients requested that we add popup disclaimers before someone sends an email to the site admin or before they submit a comment. Here’s a screenshot of what we’re going to do: Case 1: Add a Contact Us link to the navigation menu that triggers a disclaimer popup.   Once a visitor clicks OK, open the visitor’s email client using the mailto: function. In the WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance > Menus and add a custom link.    Go to Screen Options and make sure the “CSS Classes” checbox is checked In the URL field,…
 
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    Templatic

  • Upcoming theme updates

    Vedran
    15 May 2012 | 7:31 am
    Along with releasing new themes we like to be busy and surprise our existing members with upgrades for their favorite themes. In the past few months we released upgrades for DailyDeal, Hotel Booking, Real Estate and all our eCommerce themes. Also let’s not forget the big launch of GeoPlaces v4 back in February.Today we are announcing updates for a number of themes, four to be precise. The themes are:Job BoardClassifiedsEventsAutomobileUpgrades for these themes will roll out in the same order as they are listed above with Job Board being first and Automobile last. To leave suggestions…

  • Templatic Tips of the Day – April 2012

    Vedran
    7 May 2012 | 4:51 pm
    Just like last month, here are all the tips published on Facebook and Twitter during AprilApril 1 Want to add a floating social bar to your theme? Check out Sticky Social Bar -> bit.ly/H8faNq   April 2 Here’s a cool customization for Publisher users…make your slider sort products by publication date -> http://bit.ly/H8Aywx   April 3 Need a F.A.Q section for your site but don’t feel like doing it manually? Check out this cool plugin -> http://bit.ly/HHZDQS   April 4 Quickly find and insert free photos using the Compfight plugin. As plugins go, this one is…

  • Improve your real estate website with Real Estate 2

    Vedran
    1 May 2012 | 8:56 am
    This April has been all about real estate themes. Two weeks ago we released Realtr, a fresh new take on the real estate market with awesome looks and even better features. Today we’re releasing a big upgrade for Real Estate, our first real estate theme.View Live DemoPurchase Real Estate 2Test Real Estate 2People that liked original Real Estate design will be extremely happy to know that design has stayed pretty much the same in Real Estate 2. Our development team focused exclusively on the back-end. This enabled them to include awesome features like…Category listings with a…

  • Conquer the real estate market with Realtr WordPress theme

    Vedran
    18 Apr 2012 | 6:43 am
    Few weeks ago we teased a new real estate theme with a completely revamped design and functionality. That mythical theme is completed and ready for you to dive in. This new gem is called Realtr and it is THE best real estate WordPress theme out there.View Live DemoPurchase RealtrTest Realtr  Members using our RealEstate theme will be delighted to hear that virtually every RealEstate feature has seen an improvement with Realtr. How does this translate to the real world? Read on…Get rich using price packagesWith the new price packages feature you now have complete control over the…

  • Best ever theme for real estate is coming up

    R.Bhavesh
    3 Apr 2012 | 10:44 am
    The title says it all. Two years back we released Real Estate – one of the best real estate themes for WordPress. As part of our upgrade process of existing themes, Real Estate theme is getting a face lift this month. That means custom fields, custom post type for properties, custom user fields – the whole shabang!But this post isn’t about Real Estate theme, oh no, we’re working on another real estate gem! Above is the teaser to what’s coming but the real beauty is in the back end. Plus, there are lots of new things which is not previewed here at all.Watch out…
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  • I Space You – I Need More Space

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    16 May 2012 | 5:48 am
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  • How Intelligently You Can Customize Your WordPress Website?

    Jessica
    16 May 2012 | 8:19 am
    More than 40 Million people are using WordPress at present. It is an excellent Content Management System presented with a great number of customization, themes and plugins to make a profitable as well as valuable website for your business. With its help you can build any type of WordPress website quickly and in an easy way. You can set the complete WordPress website design, usability and functionality. People who are using WordPress very well know about its significance. Regularly they are utilizing its cool features and benefits to smartly build up a custom-made WordPress website matching to…

  • 5 Smart WordPress Caching Plugins to Accelerate Your WordPress WebSite

    Jessica
    2 May 2012 | 6:56 am
    Today everyone knows about this fact that a faster loading page brings huge number of benefits for a website as well as perks up visitor overall browsing experience. Fast websites are always loved by visitors and appeal them to stay on a website for a longer time which later on increases business sales. If you are using WordPress as your publishing platform and worried regarding your website’s speed, then caching will really aid you in this case. The Faster and quicker a page loads, better the website will experience more visits.   Also, the SEO experts believes website speed as one of the…

  • How To Optimize WordPress Website For Top Search Engines?

    Jessica
    2 May 2012 | 5:18 am
    Thinking to achieve top search engine results! Well-optimized WordPress website will really help in this. However, if you don’t know how tooptimize your WordPress website wellfor the search engines then you will find this article useful for you.  You will get lots of techniques and tips to drive more traffic on your website and will soon realizing love for your website among top search engines.   Following are the points which aid you to make your website functionality killer one as well as make sure your website is the finest it can be. 1.      Title tags: Title tags are the key…

  • 12 Lucrative and Valuable WordPress Plugins for 2012

    Jessica
    30 Apr 2012 | 4:50 am
    Today WordPress is dramatically booming an online world with its key features and functionalities. It becomes out powerful open source content management system like never before. All thanks goes to the plug-ins daily joining the WordPress indispensable platform. They are the key elements through which you can build a WordPress Website Design more prevailing and fully functional as well get great chance to extend website’s capabilities. But before choosing useful plugins for your overall business development, it is good to check out its uses and utilities that will give HUGE benefits for…

  • Expert Web Designer Can Really Make An Online Business Website Profitable

    Jessica
    25 Apr 2012 | 8:24 am
    The most excellent appropriate way to start an online business is to contact and hire a clued-up and specialized web designer that will not only design and create an eye-catching and purposeful website design but at the same time put all his/her efforts to make an online business website profitable. Good web designers always work in a skillful manner and collect all the necessary business elements require to generate a useful website design for their clients.    They are the expert people in developing and managing all the designing work as well as in producing creative and unique website…
 
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  • 5 Key Linkbuilding Tactics in 2012

    Karl Walinskas
    14 May 2012 | 11:50 am
    As the Web develops, so does the complexity of the major search engines and the algorithms they apply to determine essential content in cyberspace. Relevant is the key word here, which means valuable to the searcher and the most likely to match exactly what that person is looking for. Going into 2012, search engines such as Bing have started to understand that keyword matching is just part of the equation to figure out relevancy, and that the significance and the authority level of the web page is emerging as a larger determinant for search relevancy. That brings us to your Linkbuilding…

  • How To Hire a Copywriter – Video Walkthrough

    Don Campbell
    10 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    The success of your website or blog depends on the content you publish there. Google is looking for unique, original content that your readers engage with by commenting, tweeting, +1′ing and Liking it. When I talk to business owners about their web presence, one of the things I emphasize is the need for a content plan. Many (most) business owners are not writers, or they are too busy to write such engaging content. Fortunately, there are people who make a living by writing great content. They are called copywriters. When you have the best copywriters you can feed them your ideas and…

  • Strategies for Working From A Home Office

    Eileen Lonergan
    9 May 2012 | 12:40 pm
    I am lucky enough to have a dedicated space in my house for a home office and it has been the headquarters of EileenLonergan.com for the past four years. Twice last week I was asked how I could detach myself from the “house duties” to sit in my office. I never feel the irresistible pull of my laundry room, but I do have some strategies for working from home which I thought may be interesting to share. 1. I have a routine that is imposed upon me because I have a family. When I get them out the door I spend a few minutes “tidying” and then I get to my desk. I very rarely…

  • How To Measure Social Media Marketing Performance

    Brad Shorr
    7 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Social media marketing may never be crystal clear, but it should never be a budgetary black hole, either. This post outlines a process to help you evaluate the return on your social marketing investment. 1. Costs Calculations A. Establish a Value for Your Time Time (labor) is by far the biggest component of a social media marketing program. What is your time worth? The first step in any ROI calculation for social media is establishing an all-in hourly labor cost for anyone touching the program. B. Classify Activities In order to make time tracking useful, it’s necessary to divide social…

  • Mobile Marketing Beyond Google Places

    Jen Thames
    3 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Marketing and promoting a small business is an essential element to success. Yet often small business owners are so swamped running their business that marketing their business never happens. Marketing is vital to the success of any business and setting up marketing priorities helps to start the marketing ball rolling. Put Mobile Marketing at the Top of the Priority List Mobile marketing conversion rates are incredible and the market of smart phone users is large and growing quickly. A conversion happens when a user performs a desired action, such as buying something, signing up for a…
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  • 5 Free Plugins to Mobilize Your Blog

    admin
    8 May 2012 | 9:55 pm
    5 Free Plugins to Mobilize Your Blog is my latest post. Subscribe to my feed hereEveryone knows that mobile marketing is huge!   In fact, by 2015 it is tipped that people will use their smart phones more than their desktop computers.    For internet marketers this means that your content needs to be viewable on mobile devices (smart phones and tablets).     Right now you can probably “view” [...] 10K in a Weekend!  Unbelievable but True.   Check out this course My favourite WordPress Cloner is a script not a plugin.    This is the way I clone…

  • Customize your Embedded You Tube Videos

    Leanne
    2 May 2012 | 10:23 pm
    Customize your Embedded You Tube Videos is my latest post. Subscribe to my feed hereTay Omojokun from the team at Embed Plus WordPress plugin  has created this guest post to show visitors what you can do with this amazing free video plugin.    I have to admit when I seen what this plugin could do my mind started spinning with the possibilities and opportunities for internet marketers.   I [...] 10K in a Weekend!  Unbelievable but True.   Check out this course My favourite WordPress Cloner is a script not a plugin.    This is the way I clone WordPress sites…

  • How to change your WordPress Database Prefix

    Leanne
    11 Apr 2012 | 10:20 am
    How to change your WordPress Database Prefix is my latest post. Subscribe to my feed hereWordPress originally had a default database name of  wp_ .     As you can imagine, it wasn’t too long before hackers figured that out and actively sought out the wp_ prefix.     In later versions of  WordPress you can now change the database prefix from the default wp_ to something else that adds [...] 10K in a Weekend!  Unbelievable but True.   Check out this course My favourite WordPress Cloner is a script not a plugin.    This is the way I clone WordPress sites…

  • Push Button SEO Review

    Leanne
    4 Apr 2012 | 8:37 pm
    Push Button SEO Review is my latest post. Subscribe to my feed hereIt seems every 5 minutes that there is a new  push button SEO WordPress plugin promising great things to users.      WordPress SEO plugins tend to come in a few different flavours there are those that make it easy to complete your SEO meta data on each post and page, those that track your [...] 10K in a Weekend!  Unbelievable but True.   Check out this course My favourite WordPress Cloner is a script not a plugin.    This is the way I clone WordPress sites quickly Of course, you will need…

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    admin
    30 Mar 2012 | 5:29 am
    1 minute read is my latest post. Subscribe to my feed heremake your own infographics with this cool tool in beta http://www.easel.ly/ null 10K in a Weekend!  Unbelievable but True.   Check out this course My favourite WordPress Cloner is a script not a plugin.    This is the way I clone WordPress sites quickly Of course, you will need Traffic and this is my recommended traffic course
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  • Your Unique Selling Proposition: Why It Matters, and How to Find One That Really Works

    Gregory Ciotti
    15 May 2012 | 9:29 pm
    Your unique selling proposition (USP) is literally the foundation of your business. In addition to finding an audience in need and figuring out how to fill that need, you also need to position yourself in the market in a unique way. It’s an important decision to make, one that definitely deserves some time before you pull the trigger. The thing is, you don’t want to get stuck in “paralysis”, frozen with fear of choosing the wrong USP for your brand. Today I’ve got a great pair of interviews that will help you find (or strengthen) your USP… and not take…

  • The Psychology Of Going Viral: 12 Proven Ways to Craft Content That Gets People Talking (About You)

    Gregory Ciotti
    16 Apr 2012 | 11:04 pm
    So, you are focused on building a popular blog. You’ve likely been following the patented three-step formula for a successful site: Craft amazing content Build an audience Sell people stuff A lot of people think that they have number 1 down, and that number 2 is the real kicker… but might they have it backwards? Are you really creating the style of content that gets people anxious to share it (and that allows you to generate interested traffic)? You no longer have to guess, because today, I have research that will show you how. How To Push People’s Buttons I’ve just…

  • The Blogger’s Guide To YouTube: How To Absolutely Dominate Your Niche With Video Content

    Gregory Ciotti
    3 Apr 2012 | 9:32 pm
    In the social media & blogging world, big predictions have been made for the future of YouTube in 2012. A recent post on Social Media Examiner covering 30 predictions from social media pros had a slew of positive predictions for how important YouTube was going to be in the coming year, including the follow: YouTube will (finally) get recognition and significant use as a major social network. YouTube [will] take the lead. YouTube rises to top of mind. In fact, of all of the great platforms covered in this highly insightful prediction post, YouTube was viewed the most positively in the…

  • 50 Successful Blogs That Prove You Don’t Have to “Blog About Blogging” To Create A Winner

    Gregory Ciotti
    27 Mar 2012 | 1:05 pm
    If there is one misconception in this space that bothers me the most, it’s this belief that blogging & content marketing doesn’t work unless it’s “meta”. That is, people don’t believe blogs can be successful unless they are about blogging, marketing, or social media. What they don’t understand is that it’s only the marketing blogs that publish things like “traffic reports”, “income reports”, case studies and the like. Regular blogs in popular “normal” topics don’t do this, yet they are still out…

  • Webinar Marketing: How Is This List Building Technique Already Changing The Game?

    Gregory Ciotti
    11 Mar 2012 | 6:35 pm
    I want to let you in on a little secret… Those big bloggers & marketers out there, they’re all utilizing a super smart tactic. The process itself isn’t entirely new, but it’s never been more effective. Surprisingly, it hasn’t been talked about much (until very recently). Curtains off: it’s time for you to know… List Building On Steroids There are quite a few ways to get featured on a popular blog, almost all of which involve building a great relationship with the blogger (or having something unique to offer). Luckily, to start building that…
 
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    f4ci

  • Budukwaa Rural School Project Photos

    f4ciadmin
    4 May 2012 | 11:22 am
    The following slideshow shows the pictures from our Budukwaa Rural School Project which has been supporting the community children for the past 3 years in education. The centre is equipped with much needed drainage facilites and rainwater harvesting for the children. Click to view slideshow.

  • With 7 billion on earth, a huge task before us

    f4ciadmin
    2 May 2012 | 12:35 pm
    With the advent of the worlds 7 billionth person, the worlds resources are becomming increasingly stretched, agricultural systems are being pushed, rainforests are being cut down, groundwater is being depleted, species are threatened. How will we deal with the pressure being put under the worlds resources if the population keeps on growing the way it does? See the following video with Jeffrey Sachs on CNN, and read their article http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/17/opinion/sachs-global-population/index.html.

  • Charity Walk April 2012

    f4ciadmin
    2 May 2012 | 12:17 pm
    Thanks to everyone who took part in our charity walk 2012. The walk took place around Rutland Waters peninsula. It was a sunny day with no rain fortunately. The dogs came and enjoyed a breath of fresh air, we had a nice lunch afterwards and raised a little money for the charity. We did we have to admit cut the walk a little short after it took us 2 hours to walk 2 miles (or as some argued 4 miles) so we could make it back in time for lunch. We are now looking forward to our next event which will take place on jubilee day where we our looking at some people having open houses on the…

  • Enjoy donating to Specific Programs at F4CI

    f4ciadmin
    2 May 2012 | 7:42 am
    You can now donate to specific programs at www.f4ci.co.uk. Programs at time of writing include our Blue Skies program which allows you to donate to support a community in Ghana. The community will be supported by by providing it with facilities such as a bore hole or a school. We are waiting for Blue Skies to select programs for funding at around the end of May 2012. Donating to a specific program allows you to track the success of your donation. Because you are donating to a specific cause you can follow that program on our website as it develops or by signing up for our emails or through…

  • Millennium Villages

    f4ciadmin
    14 Apr 2012 | 1:33 pm
    Below is a video which shows you in great detail how the a group of villages in sub saharan Africa have been helped by the Millennium Villages Project. The Millennium Villages constructed a variety of infrastructure prgorams in several villages implementing on the ground measures wihch have had great effect on things like crop yield helping feed the population and sell on more to provide an income. These villages empitamize the sort of work the foundation www.f4ci.co.uk is trying to achieve. Based on globally accepted strategies for ending poverty some of which have been adopted by the…
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    WordPress 101 for Boomers

  • Blogger to WordPress Tips

    Heidi Caswell
    16 May 2012 | 9:25 am
    A couple of things I forgot in my Blogger to self-hosted WordPress tutorial. Redirect the feed of your Blogger account to your new WordPress feed.  You already have subscribers, this will help them continue to get your new posts, although I’d encourage them to sign up opt-in to your new list, especially if using an autoresponder such as MailChimp or Aweber.  Your wordpress site’s feed is usually adding /feed to the end of your url such as http://boomerempowerment.com/feed   or http://boomerempowerment.com/wordpress101/feed Use the Awesome SEO Blogger to WordPress using 301…

  • Moving from BlogSpot to WordPress

    Heidi Caswell
    15 May 2012 | 1:58 pm
    This next part of our Moving WordPress tutorial, we’ll go over moving your content from Blogger (also known as BlogSpot) to a self-hosted WordPress site.  I really don’t recommend moving from Blogger to the free WordPress.com.  Not enough benefits to make it worth the move. Set up WordPress on your host If you are already using your domain name on blogger, great!  Now visit yesterday’s post on “Moving and Existing Site to WordPress“ Import your content from Blogger Download and add your images to your new site or leave your images on blogger, have the search…

  • Moving an Existing Website to WordPress

    Heidi Caswell
    14 May 2012 | 11:26 am
    This is for those who have an existing website and want a smooth move to a self-hosted WordPress site without interrupting your website’s traffic. You already have a site on blogger with your domain name that gets a bit of traffic. You are ready to make the move to your own self-hosted wordpress site replacing the blogger site You already have a site on WordPress.com with your domain name, it gets a bit of traffic and want to switch to self-hosted with your.  (See http://boomerempowerment.com/wordpress101/move-from-wordpress-com-org/ along with this post. You have an existing website…

  • No Comments on a WordPress Page

    Heidi Caswell
    12 May 2012 | 4:35 pm
    It is easy to take the comments off each individual page or post. Go to quick edit and uncheck the comment box, save.   One of the many improvements wordpress has made over the years. Read more at WordPress 101 for Boomers -

  • How to Embed a Google Map

    Heidi Caswell
    12 May 2012 | 12:06 am
    Here is a short tutorial, especially helpful for a contact page. How to embed a Google map into a WordPress page. Go to Google Maps Type in the address Click on link button Copy the embed code Paste into your wordpress page, using the html tab Save Read more at WordPress 101 for Boomers -
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  • The Best Menu Plugin for WordPress: UberMenu 2.0

    Jean Galea
    16 May 2012 | 8:19 am
    Menus are sometimes one of those things which you may overlook when planning a website, thinking you won’t have any hassle to build, and then later it turns out that it’s indeed very time consuming to build what you had in mind within your WordPress site. At that point you either settle for a simpler menu or scour the interwebs in search for tips and tricks to twist the WordPress menu system to function in the way you want it to. Of course, if you’re a coding legend you probably won’t have any problem, but for other mere mortals there is now a great solution: UberMenu…

  • Best Plugin for Showing Theme File Being Used

    Jean Galea
    16 May 2012 | 4:57 am
    When debugging and developing a WordPress site, it is most useful to have the template file being used being displayed on the front end, so you will easily know what file you should be editing to see the desired changes on the front end. It is easy for frustration to build when you don’t see changes being applied to the front end, only to later discover that you were editing the wrong file. The solution is simple, and comes in the form of a plugin called Reveal Template. This plugin relieves the aggravation by assisting designers and developers by displaying the template being used to…

  • SEO with WordPress

    Carma Leichty
    15 May 2012 | 4:55 am
    Photo by MoneyBlogNewz on Flikr It’s not enough to just have a website or to just publish a blog post. One must also consider SEO to really have your website and blog post noticed by others. In this post, we’ll explore not only best SEO practices, but explore best SEO practices within WordPress and include a quick review and demo of two SEO WordPress plugins. Best SEO Practices Use of Keywords Keywords need to be used within the content of the pages, and preferably near the top of the page. Work the use of keywords into the content so it flows naturally and organically. The first…

  • How to Create an iPhone App for Your WordPress Blog / Site

    Jean Galea
    14 May 2012 | 10:46 am
    WiziApp is a powerful new service that enables you to enjoy native iPhone app benefits, such as App Store exposure and a native user experience for your audience, without the hassles of dealing with the development process or technical issues. The WiziApp service is based on the WordPress plugin system, for seamless integration between your blog and your own native iPhone app. All you need to do is download the WiziApp plugin, follow a few simple configuration steps, and your app is ready. WiziApp was created by a team of WordPress specialists (and fans!) who joined with expert iPhone…

  • Best Travel Themes for WordPress

    Alyona Vadimovna
    14 May 2012 | 3:49 am
    If you are planning to establish a website for a tours and travel business, webguide or travel blog, or you just want to make a diary of your personal adventures, this post is for you. Travel themes for WordPress provide the right look and features which are needed for this specific niche, lots of them have integrated maps and geo tagging features included. For travel themes, you can also add multilingual plugins, advanced map plugins, guestbooks, and photo sliders. There are many themes available in the web, but searching for those which are perfect for your needs is a really difficult task.
 
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    Premium WordPress Themes

  • WP-Mysterious, WordPress Premium Portfolio Theme

    Ashley
    9 May 2012 | 2:48 am
    WP-Mysterious, WordPress Premium Portfolio Theme WP-Mysterious is a Unique, Personal Blogging & Portfolio Theme for WordPress – it has everything to quickly and easily create an awesome, personal website. With room for customization and a simple installation, Leap is a must-have theme for your personal site. WP-Mysterious comes with a customizable that allows you to set the display sliders, custom posts, google analitics and other code. We also prepare a portfolio page template that can help you showcase your work. WP-Mysterious Theme can also be used for the company’s website. If You…

  • Trim, Premium WordPress Business Theme

    Ashley
    9 May 2012 | 2:19 am
    Trim, Premium WordPress Business Theme Trim is a circular-inspired wordpress theme that creates a clean and slick design by joining together rounded corners, floating circles and fluid movement. Eye-catching circular content can be placed throughout your pages to make sure your visitors know where to go and what to do. Gotham will fit your large desktop screen, all the way down to your iPhone – and of course any Tablet or iPad. It supports all features of the Dottoro Theme except the Theme Editor (Visual Editor) and the Custom Web Fonts features, but instead of them, it provides an…

  • Magnet, Fully Responsive Corporate WordPress Theme

    Ashley
    30 Apr 2012 | 5:19 pm
    Magnet, Fully Responsive Corporate WordPress Theme Magnet fully responsive wordpress theme is a simple and straight template ideal for using either for portfolio or corporate website. It takes a clean, organized approach to presenting content so it’s easier to find what you want. It gives you abilities to manage your site very simple. For example, if you want to change your site color, size and layout you could just work on admin panel and additional options. It is easy to draw your site corporate style. All images have the ability to have a mouse over effect. This effect displays larger…

  • FoodBlog, WordPress Premium Recipes Theme

    Ashley
    27 Apr 2012 | 2:38 am
    FoodBlog WordPress Premium Recipes Theme FoodBlog is a recipe and food blog WordPress theme, which makes it easy for you to share your recipes with the custom recipe options built in to FoodBlog wp theme. FoodBlog it is very easy to customize the looks of FoodBlog theme inside the theme options panel where you can choose whatever colors you like. FoodBlog recipe premium theme will let you share all your recipes and cooking tips with wide audience. It’s one of the first FoodBlog WordPress recipe theme with support for Google Recipe View. What does it mean? it means that your blog will be…

  • Vidiho WordPress Premium Video Theme

    Ashley
    27 Apr 2012 | 2:18 am
    Vidiho WordPress Premium Video Theme Vidiho is a powerful and flexible wordpress theme that focuses on providing functionality for blogs and informative sites. Whether you’re an occasional personal blogger or have a full-scale content-heavy magazine site or newspaper, Vidiho wordpress theme has you covered. Using Vidiho theme options and widgets you can control content layout, manage your own advertising, pull in your latest tweets, show your latest video, display your latest photos and much, much more. Premium features, dozens of custom functions, several custom widgets, solid, intuitive…
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  • Better theme file structures coming in WordPress 3.4

    adavis
    1 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    One of the new features coming with the release of WordPress 3.4 is an improved file structure for themes. Currently, all files live under the same directory, which can get a bit messy depending on how many templates, pages, etc. your theme has.As an example, currently your theme file structure looks like this /theme folder –page-contact.php –page-about.php With the new structure that will look like this: /theme-directory index.php —-/pages ——–/page-about.php ——–/page-contact.php   And the best part? You don’t have to tell…

  • WordPress releases JetPack 1.3- now includes Contact forms!

    adavis
    27 Apr 2012 | 8:05 am
    The Jetpack plugin got an important feature addition this week with the release of contact forms into the suite of plugins provided by WordPress.com. While it’a a pretty basic form, it’s a great addition to those who need just that, a pretty basic form. In addition to the standard text fields you can also add  radio buttons, checkboxes and dropdown fields…and the best part is it’s included for free in the Jetpack suite along with all the other goodness that comes with it like gravatars, stats, social sharing and more. So all in all a great addition to an already…

  • WordCamp Toronto…times two!!

    adavis
    27 Apr 2012 | 6:45 am
    We’ve been hinting at it and talking about it quietly for a bit now, but we can finally say it…there will be two WordCamps in Toronto this year!! First up will be the “regular” WordCamp on Sept 29-30, which will be geared to end users. That one will be followed by WordCamp:Developers on Nov 3rd and 4th. That one will obviously be featuring topics for the designers and developers out there. Both WordCamps are being held at George Brown College In Toronto. If your interested in speaking, sponsoring, volunteering or attending, you can check back here as well as the…

  • WordPress.tv gets a facelift

    adavis
    17 Apr 2012 | 11:00 am
    One of the best sources for learning WordPress has got to be wordpress.tv. For those who have never visited before,it contains videos of sessions delivered at the various WordCamps around the world. Weren’t able to make it to WordCamp Philly last year? No worries, the sessions are on WordPress.tv. It’s an awesome source of WordPress knowledge and it’s all available to you for free! You can search the videos by Wordcamp, say for example you wanted to see all of the videos from last years WordCamp Toronto ( I was one of the organizers and like to see how the presentations…

  • WordCamp San Francisco speaker poll

    adavis
    16 Apr 2012 | 8:00 am
    Matt is looking for suggestions for speakers for WordCamp San Francisco this year. Seen anyone that you really liked? Take a minute to fill out this quick form. http://mcm.polldaddy.com/s/best-wordcamp-speakers
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  • RealPro Realtor Theme

    Dustin - Themespotter Admin
    16 May 2012 | 12:09 pm
    RealPro is an outstanding WordPress real estate theme built for the great Genesis WordPress theme framework. RealPro is clean, modern and packed with amenities, just like the properties you represent.Connect with potential clients by leveraging all of the features you’ve come to expect from a smart real-estate theme. From an inviting property showcase to a bold email sign up form, this theme provides you with all the tools you need to get real results.The RealPro real estate theme features6 layout options, custom background, custom header, featured images, fixed width, property…

  • Adorable

    Dustin - Themespotter Admin
    16 May 2012 | 11:49 am
    Stand out from the crowd and let your originality move you to the front of the line.The bold, sleek styling and colorful, contemporary design of the Adorable WordPress blog theme makes remarkable blogging in a crowded world a snap.Adorable features 6 layout options, custom background, custom header, featured images, fixed width, mobile responsive, theme options, threaded comments, and is powered by the great Genesis WordPress theme framework.This theme is a child theme for the Genesis WordPress Framework, and the price listed includes the Genesis Framework. If you already own Genesis, the…

  • Mindstream

    Dustin - Themespotter Admin
    14 May 2012 | 10:51 am
    Life is speeding by. Capture and share all your passions instantly (and on a platform you own) with the brilliant, streamlined style of Mindstream theme. Mindstream is a responsive WordPressttumblr-style theme built on the outstanding Genesis WordPress theme framework.With 9 unique post formats, from “asides” to “videos” and everything between, you can easily display your most inspired content with the mobile responsive, tumblelog layout of Mindstream.3 layout options, custom background, custom header, featured images, footer widgets, mobile responsive, post formats, threaded…

  • Decor

    Dustin - Themespotter Admin
    7 May 2012 | 4:45 pm
    Decor is an elegant and professional WordPress theme for business and bloggers built on the great StudioPress Genesis WordPress framework.The sophisticated simplicity of Decor theme helps you stage your most inspired work with a sharp, mobile responsive layout.Clients, customers, and admirers will be floored by the inviting, spacious design that instantly showcases your style on any device. You’ll find it easy to spread the word with an effortless connection to all your social networking sites.A large email subscription form on the home page is great for lead generation, and 6 layout…

  • Trim

    Dustin - Themespotter Admin
    7 May 2012 | 11:49 am
    Trim is a simple, professional, versatile and fast WordPress theme for business from Elegant Themes.Elegant Themes built Trim in response to a lot of requests for a less stylistic, lightweight design. Trim might be simple, but with that simplicity comes a sense of balance and crispness that is quite refreshing. Coupled with a bunch of great features, Trim is a great theme that will prove useful for a variety of different websites.Trim features a fully responsive design. This means that the theme will adapt to various screen sizes to insure that your content is readable on any device. The…
 
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  • Twin Photography WordPress Theme

    Peter
    16 May 2012 | 10:35 am
    Twin is an a creative WordPress Theme for all creatives out there. This is a perfect theme for showcase your photos, art and projects. It is beautifully designed and will display your works in the best way possible with features such as jQuery Masonry Layout with dynamic grid widths, PrettyPhoto, Classic Masonry Template for Photography and much more. Twin is an awesome Photography and Portfolio WordPress Theme…Theme options paneljQuery Masonry layout with dynamic grid widthsjQuery powered multi level dropdown menu8 custom post formats7 custom widgetsBuilt in social sharing…

  • 3 Awesome Free WordPress Themes by Joolu Themes

    Peter
    15 May 2012 | 6:24 am
    Not so very long ago Joolu Themes launched their WordPress template / theme store with premium and free WordPress Themes. I was curious about their themes and wanted to check them out. In their gallery, I saw amazing and awesome themes, beautifully designed, and their theme is all licensed under the GPL License. I recommend you check out their themes and I guarantee you will like what you see – Amazing and great looking WordPress Themes…Download, Install and Enjoy …UltimaUltima is a elegant and stylish free WordPress Theme by Joolu Themes. The design is clean and is…

  • 35 Miminalist Free & Premium WordPress Themes

    Peter
    14 May 2012 | 12:32 pm
    Minimalism – Minimalist and beautifully designed WordPress Themes is today’s topic. Minimalism is a trend that always seem to last and is still popular, although many theme designers are trying to get as many web elements as possible in their themes simplicity can be an attractive option for many bloggers. “Less is more” right! If you like minimal, beautiful WP themes, check out our list with- 35 elegant minimalist free and premium WordPress Themes. Download and – Happy Blogging! Premium WordPress ThemesCoreCore is a beautiful minimalist photography and…

  • 3 Free WordPress Themes by Towfiq I

    Peter
    13 May 2012 | 9:47 am
    Next WordPress Theme provider and designer in line to presented here at WP Daily Themes are Towfiq I. In their gallery you will find both premium and free themes beautifully designed and loaded with cool and great features. Today we focus on 3 free WordPress Themes from Towfiq I. All themes are licensed under the GPL license so you are free to modify and use the themes for free. Go ahead – Download, Install and Enjoy…Zenon LiteZenon Lite is a free WordPress Theme from Towfiq I that comes with a clean and slim design. The theme is perfect for a business website or you can use your…

  • Femme WordPress Theme

    Peter
    13 May 2012 | 4:39 am
    Femme is a new eCommerce WordPress Theme release from cssigniter.com. Femme is a responsive magazine powered by the WooCommerce engine. With the responsive design you can be sure the theme will look awesome in mobile devices such iPhone and iPad. Femme is a theme in magazine style perfect for a fashion blog or online shop. The theme comes loaded with all a lot of great features such as;Theme option panelResponsive layoutPowered by WooCommerceAlternative layoutsCustom menusHTML5 / CSS3ShortcodesAnd much more…Demo – Femme Download – Femme
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  • Trim Theme Review

    Costa
    9 May 2012 | 11:09 pm
    Trim Theme, is a minimalistic and simple WordPress Theme released by Elegant Themes. The Theme is available for free download to members of Elegant Themes only. This latest addition brings the total number of Themes that members gets to download to 76 Themes altogether and more are added almost bi-monthly without any extra cost to members. Here’s a review of the latest release called Trim Theme. Trim Theme Is A Rather Simple Theme Compared to other previous release, the Trim Theme can be described as “poor in comparison” in terms of glamour and sophistication. It is a…

  • Basics Of Creating A WordPress Child Theme

    Costa
    8 May 2012 | 11:20 pm
    For those who cannot afford premium themes like the Catalyst where you can create child themes of your own on the fly, the easy alternative is to manually create a child Theme on your own. Though it might sound daunting for some, creating a WordPress Child Theme is as simple as creating a new CSS file and nothing more. Why You Should Create A Child Theme Basically, the WordPress Child Theme’s only purpose is to change the way the Theme looks without messing with the core files. Thus all you need is a CSS file which overrides the codes in the original. By doing this separately with a…

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    Costa
    7 May 2012 | 10:03 pm
    Related: Should Matt Cutts Be Fired Related posts: Why Do Cat’s Bum Go Up When You Stroke Them Indeed, why do cat’s bum go up when you stroke them. Here is Matt Cutts, Mr Know-It-All from Google trying his level best to answer this question. Guess not everyone is interested in Search Engine Optimization after all. There are [...]... Does Google Penalize AutoBlogging Auto blogs, Scrapper sites, Splogs, call it whatever you like, they all does the same thing. Steal contents. Used mainly by people who wants to make money the fast and easy way, because all they have to do is to…

  • Where To Download Free Stock Images

    Costa
    6 May 2012 | 9:15 pm
    Gurus say it is good to have at least one image inserted in your blog post. Visually, it will make your post less boring, especially if you tend to write long articles. The image will break the monotony and make reading more pleasurable. On top of that, the image or images will also add a little bit more search juice to your post if you tag your images properly. Getting images for your blogs is easy and there are lots available for free online. However, each time you use one of those free images, do you get a feeling that the images you are using is somehow not on par with the images you see…

  • When Google Penguin Sneezes, The Internet Trembles

    Costa
    26 Apr 2012 | 11:30 pm
    It’s been quite a horrible week in the Internet or at least for those who depends on the Internet for a living. In fact, it has been horrible since the beast called Panda was released by Google. The Internet is changing so much, so often that it has become impossible to chart your course and where you should be heading if you are one travelling along the precarious Internet highway, most of which is controlled by Google. You can be stopped in the middle of nowhere and forced out of the road with no food, no water and no apparent reason, as reported by many. For the past week, the Panda…
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  • Top 5 Free WordPress Themes of the Month – May 2012 Edition

    Tom Ewer
    16 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Picking the top 5 free WordPress themes was pretty tough this month. Compared to prior months, there was a veritable wealth of great designs to pick from. After much deliberation, I picked what I consider to be a wide range of designs – there should certainly be something for everyone here. And with the growing popularity of mobile devices, each theme is adjudged not only by its “standard” design, but also by how it adapts to mobile platforms. As always, all of the themes you will see below are either brand new, or newly updated. As such, they are compatible with the latest…

  • 3 Free Placeholder Image Tools For All Your Dummy Image Needs

    Tom Ewer
    15 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    If you are a website designer, placeholder images are an essential part of your toolkit. After all, there are a multitude of reasons as to why you might need to fill a spot with an as yet undetermined final image during the design process. But creating your own placeholder images is both inefficient and unnecessary – there are plenty of free resources out there that can provide you with customizable placeholder images. With that in mind, and rather than overwhelming you with an enormous list, I have picked out what I consider to be three distinct options that are likely to suit the vast…

  • Our 3 Step Process to WordPress Site Management Nirvana

    Tom Ewer
    14 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    The grass really is greener on the other side with ManageWP... There is no doubting that ManageWP makes it dramatically easier to manage your website portfolio, but if you have a particularly large number of websites, you may be somewhat intimidated by the setup process. After all, saving time is one thing, but if the the upfront commitment it takes to save that time in the future is too onerous, you may feel that it is not worth doing. But that needn’t be a concern - ManageWP’s Bulk Add Websites feature can get your entire portfolio up and running in just a few minutes. Whether…

  • 5 Reasons Why You May Have Your Approach To Analytics All Wrong

    Tom Ewer
    11 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Are you obsessed with analytics? Do you find yourself checking your website’s stats several times every day? The answer could well be yes – we are all guilty on occasion of spending a little too much time obsessing over how many people are visiting our beloved blogs. Here is a more difficult question that I want you to consider carefully – what value do you get out of your habit? How does your constant and consistent analysis of your analytics actually benefit your blog and/or business? It is all too easy to get little to no value out of analytics. It is also remarkably easy…

  • 7 Million Downloads and Counting – an Interview with Lester Chan

    Tom Ewer
    10 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    Last month we kicked off our first ever plugin developer showcase by featuring our very own Vladimir Prelovac. Now it is time to start moving onto the first of many independent plugin developers to come in this continuing series. You may be wondering what you can expect from these posts – what information of value they can bring to you. Well, let me put it like this – there are few people more involved with and more knowledgable about WordPress than experienced plugin developers. An opportunity to tap into their knowledge base and expertise is not one to be wasted. Besides –…
 
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  • Socialite Premium WordPress Theme

    Angel
    16 May 2012 | 1:03 pm
    The Socialite Premium WordPress Theme hosted on Mojo Themes – what can I say about this theme? I adore it! This professional style WordPress theme has so many customization options, you can cater it to your exact needs. Flexible and highly usable and navigable, this theme is perfect for a big agency that means business or service company. The 3D Slider ROCKS! I really suggest you take the time to check out this theme. The sliders are too much of an eye-catcher to miss!The Socialite Premium WordPress Theme features:100+ Shortcodes, including Pricing Tables ShortcodePSD files…

  • App Maker Premium App Developer WordPress Theme

    Angel
    15 May 2012 | 1:34 pm
    The App Maker Premium App Developer WordPress Theme hosted on Themes Kingdom is a minimalistic WordPress theme for application developers and reviewers. You and your agency can showcase your latest and older projects, iPad, iPhone and Android applications, easily and beautifully with this highly customizable theme. Check out the cool mobile device preview shots on the homepage!The App Maker Premium App Developer WordPress Theme features:Custom Theme AdministrationPSD files includedShortcode generatorGoogle Maps integrationPage templates included (contact form, portfolio, blog, etc.)SEO…

  • Super Biz Premium Business WordPress Theme

    Angel
    14 May 2012 | 1:03 pm
    The Super Biz Premium Business WordPress Theme hosted on Mojo Themes is a darn awesome theme for an agency or corporation. Its unique layout, neat and unusual (check out the home page slider animation and different options for displaying images and text) enough to catch your readers’ eyes, while still being professional enough to let visitors focus on your business. The blog section is really awesome, with its widgets and photostream – the list goes on! I LOVE the corporate pricing table. This theme really has oodles of features, and I absolutely adore it!The Super Biz Premium…

  • Dealers Premium Daily Coupon WordPress Theme

    Angel
    13 May 2012 | 1:48 pm
    The Dealers Daily Coupon WordPress Theme hosted on Themes Kingdom is a simple but awesome theme to build your daily deal coupon site on. The layout is minimal but superbly effective, and will get your customers coming back for more. The much-needed subscription widget up top is perfect for building up that mailing list!The Dealers Daily Coupon WordPress Theme features:One-click installationUnlimited background colorsSendLoop & MailChimp integrationCustom Login PanelPayPal gateway integrationTransaction listCustom Theme AdministrationPage templates (portfolio, contact page, blog,…

  • Evolution Premium WordPress Blogging Theme

    Angel
    12 May 2012 | 1:20 pm
    The Evolution Premium WordPress Blogging Theme hosted on Kreative Themes is the perfect theme for anyone who wants to monetize on their personal or professional blog with advertisement and widgets space. The home page slider with a patchwork of your blog post images, and the superimposed text is an awesome eye-catcher. My favorite part is the spaced-out full width ad space, which can also hold three widgets. It doesn’t bundle all the banners you want up top!The Evolution Premium WordPress Blogging Theme features:Kreative Themes Option PanelSlideshow GalleryExtensive…
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  • WordPress Tutorial: The Proper Way to Upgrade to WordPress 3.3.2

    jupiterjim
    26 Apr 2012 | 8:46 pm
    Where's Jupiter Jim when you need him? Can’t I just hit the “Update Now” Button? This WordPress Tutorial shows you the proper way to update to WordPress 3.3.2 Here are the basic steps for updating to WordPress 3.3.2 – Backup the database and files to WordPress site. De-activate your WordPress theme. De-activate all your active plugins. Update to WordPress 3.3.2 Re-Activate your WordPress Theme. Update your plugins. Re-Activate your plugins. Done.   Breath a sigh of relief! How did you learn to Update WordPress? I got a lot of information for this post and video…

  • Which Social Media Site is Best for Your Blog or Business?

    jupiterjim
    18 Apr 2012 | 6:35 pm
    I love this infographic provided by Zintro on Social Media sites Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ by Zintro. Can I be a Social Media Expert, too? If you want to know what it takes to actually be a real live Expert in Social Media, then you need to check out this article by my friend and actual blogging expert, Nile Flores. Which One Do I Choose? It’s so hard to be an expert with so many Social Media sites out there? Which sites are best to promote your blog or business? Which sites are growing fastest? What are the demographics of these sites? I would love to connect with you using…

  • I Got 50,000 Video Views on my YouTube Channel!

    jupiterjim
    12 Apr 2012 | 12:25 am
    Just last Saturday, my YouTube Channel went over 50,000 video views!  If each video lasts about 8 minutes, then that means that these WordPress and Thesis Theme Video Tutorials have given over 6,500 hours of free instruction to my video viewers around the world.  I currently have over 75 Free Video Tutorials on WordPress and the Thesis Theme for WordPress.  That’s over 10 hours worth of Free Video Tutorials for my YouTube Viewers and blog followers. Why I Create WordPress Video Tutorials Because when I first started learning WordPress in January 2010, it was hard to find good video…

  • Top 20 Blogs You Need to Succeed in 2012!

    jupiterjim
    4 Apr 2012 | 11:33 am
    My List of the Top 20 Blogs for Bloggers has also been placed on a page on this site for your easy access to it in the future.  That way when you want to find this list you just click on the tab in my navigation bar entitled, “Top 20 Blogs” and you won’t have to search for this particular post, cause that’s really a pain in the neck! You Busted Me!  Ok, there are not yet 20 Top Blogs listed but I’m always finding really cool blogs I want my readers to know about, so I left some space to add them to the list in the future without having to change the title and…

  • Thesis Tutorial: Add Google Analytics to Thesis Theme 1.8.4 and WordPress 3.3.1

    jupiterjim
    1 Apr 2012 | 9:46 am
    In this Thesis Theme Tutorial I show you how to add Google Analytics to your self-hosted WordPress blog that uses the Thesis Theme 1.8.4.   This thesis video tutorial applies to Thesis Theme versions 1.8.3 and 1.8.2 as well. It may apply to earlier versions than that, but I truly don’t have the time to test them out right now.   By watching this Thesis Video Tutorial, you will see that there are only two places you can possibly place the Google Analytics tracking code and I show you both possible places. The Google Analytics Tracking Code However, the correct place to place the Google…
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