June 24, 2012
Those of you running Wordpress blogs will notice a new major update is available if you've logged into your dashboards recently - version 3.4. I suspect most of us will upgrade regardless for security fixes and speed improvements, but what new features can you expect?
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June 22, 2012
Microsoft recently announced the end of the Windows Live brand. In response to concerns, all Microsoft is saying about Windows Live Writer is it will “work great on Windows 8” – not whether development is being halted or not. With such an uncertain future, you might be wondering what alternatives are out there.
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June 15, 2012
With any web project, stats are essential; a blog is no different. You need accurate figures on traffic growth, and you need to know which articles are popular and why. Even the earliest web pages had hit counters. Oddly, WordPress doesn't come with built-in stats, but there are certainly a few plugins you can use to add this.
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June 14, 2012
Even the most seasoned WordPress enthusiast can't have seen all of the free themes going around, so there's every likelihood the P2 theme passed you by too. But, the P2 WordPress theme is not like other themes at all. The way P2 works, it fundamentally changes the ways in which WordPress can be used and opens up a world of possibilities.
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June 12, 2012
WordPress is extremely pervasive and all kinds of people know about it and use it. Why? Because it’s easy to set up, easy to use, and easy to customize based on your own personal preferences. Specifically, I’m talking about themes, which are almost one-click installations and can completely change the look of your WordPress site. But what if themes aren’t enough?
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June 10, 2012
Livefyre has been featured on our Best of Wordpress Plugins list for a while now, but we've never looked at it in much detail before. Today I'd like to show you why I think this is the best commenting system you can run on your WordPress blog, and all the cool features it gives you.
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May 20, 2012
One problem that faces us as bloggers is how to keep users on the site, how to show them other content they might be interested in. The best way to do this appears to be a "related posts" plugin of some sort; but which to choose? For a long time, I've recommended YARPP (Yet Another Related Posts Plugin), but nRelate is a fairly new contender.
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May 13, 2012
Writing a popular blog, getting famous, and then living off the Internet from a desert island beach are faily common dreams for many aspiring bloggers. With the advent of content management systems such as Wordpress which make it incredibly easy to get a professional looking websites up and running in no time - full of sophisticated features - the only thing really holding you back is your talent.
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May 9, 2012
Are pre-set WordPress themes the sign of a low-brow publication? Is a custom theme the sign of a professional? These were the questions that used to plague me when it came to my personal website. I battled the questions for quite a while, but I just recently came to the conclusion that using pre-set themes - premium or free - is totally acceptable.
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May 6, 2012
Posting recipes on a blog is something many of us do. This plugin called GetMeCooking makes it easy to manage and present your recipes in a nice and search engine friendly format, as well as automatically gives your recipe the chance to be listed on the Getmecooking.com recipe directory too, linking back to your site in the process.
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May 3, 2012
Cloud back-up provider Backupify has just announced they will support the new Google Drive in addition to their existing Google Apps back-up service. Backupify already provide back-up syncing solutions for Google Calendar, Google Docs, Gmail and more. This means that if you’re putting all your documents into Google drive, Backupify will be able to provide [...]
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April 27, 2012
Somewhere out there is a list with your blog’s name on it, where it sits, waiting to be targeted by hackers. When they get around to your blog, they’ll try various tactics to gain access to it. Fortunately, there are various ways in which you can protect your WordPress blog from hackers.
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April 25, 2012
Whether you’re setting up a corporate website, a standard blog or just want to announce your presence on the web, the age of hand-coding HTML pages and CSS is long behind us. These days all it takes is to purchase hosting and install a content management system (CMS) and within minutes you can have a website that looks highly polished, displaying the very content that you wish to share with the world.
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April 15, 2012
By default, the WordPress commenting system is woefully inadequate. You could switch to a third party system like Livefyre or Disqus, but if you’d prefer to keep everything in house or some other kind of customization going on, then posting comments by AJAX is the least you should do.
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April 12, 2012
Music giant Spotify has recently created a play button that webmasters can put on their websites in order to play Spotify music. The play button integrates Spotify music with blogs, websites and more, leading to a more social web music experience. Webmasters and bloggers can add the play button widget to their page easily, which [...]
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