May 29, 2011
The Jetpack plugin suite is an essential first plugin install for every new WordPress blog owner – and Jeffry covered the installation and some of it’s features before. If you’re not convinced yet, here’s another 3 reasons why you should install it now. It also ties in nicely with the newest release of the WordPress [...]
May 24, 2011
The world wide web knows many languages and is coded in several different ones. The one language however, that can be found all over and has been around since the invention of webpages, is the HyperText Markup Language, better known as HTML. In this article I want to show you a few, possibly random, but definitely useful and simple tags for daily use.
May 21, 2011
One of Wordpress’ greatest strengths is its flexibility. The blogging platform can be pretty much anything you choose to make it. So it’s no surprise that it’s an extremely popular platform amongst photographers and designers. If you’ve been looking for a theme, and aren’t sure where to start, check out this list of some of the latest, professional looking portfolios available for download for free.
May 20, 2011
Many bloggers will search for the perfect Wordpress widget that will do exactly what they want, but with a little programming experience you may find it’s easier to write your custom widget. This week I’d like to show how to do exactly that, and the widget we will be writing is a simple one that picks out a single random post from your site, pulls the featured image, and displays it on the sidebar.
May 19, 2011
If you own a blog, what can you do to make sure that your visitors read as many posts as possible? One trick is to display your posts at the top of your main page, so they will be instantly accessible. One of the tools that you can use to do this is Wibbitz, a web service that will help you feature the latest contents of your blog as an interactive slideshow.
May 13, 2011
Featured Images were introduced into Wordpress in version 2.9, and it enables you to easily display an image that’s associated with your blog post in various parts of your theme. Today I’d like to show you how to make use of featured images in your blog. I’ll show you how to add and assign the image to your post as well as the code you’ll need.
May 13, 2011
As I watch my own Wordpress blog grow in both posts and user comments, I’m starting to eye my growing database with a wary eye. What happens if the server goes down, gets hacked or worse? Shouldn’t I be prepared for such a situation with a constant, ready backup of all posts and comments? I finally came across a brilliant free MySQL backup utility called MySQLDumper.
May 9, 2011
Whether you’re attending a conference, taking part in an event, or even watching a football match, there are various ways you can share your comments, thoughts, images and much more. While Twitter has become immensely popular for live tweeting just about everything you could imagine, if you’re looking for something a little bit more robust, there are three free services that have been built specifically for this purpose.
May 6, 2011
Last time we talked about Wordpress backups, I showed you how incredibly easy it was to backup your entire database and files though SSH with only a few commands. This time, I’m going to show how to automate those commands, giving you fresh backups of your entire site every week, with very little effort.
April 24, 2011
CloudFlare is an intriguing start-up from the creators of Project Honey Pot that claims to protect your website from spammers, bots and other evil web monsters – as well as speed up your site somewhat by caching certain page requests. It’s free, setup is relatively painless, and who can say no to free security protection?
