Contact Form 7: The Best Contact Form Plugin For WordPress
Contact Form 7 is simple and easy to use. It's the best contact form plugin for WordPress that I've used yet.
Vagrant: A Quick, Effortless Way to Create Virtual Machines for Local Web Development
If you've ever worked on a Web development project, you know just getting started can be tough. Meet Vagrant, a free and powerful way to create project-specific virtual machines.
Write, Edit & Manage Blog Posts Faster With MarsEdit for OS X
While WordPress is the quintessential blogging service, writing blogs directly in its text editor is not always user friendly. That's why I use MarsEdit for composing and uploading all of my blog posts.
8 Unusual and Surprising Uses for WordPress
From social networks to intranets, from directories to RSS aggregators – WordPress has you covered. Between all of the free and paid themes and plugins, you can make your WordPress site pretty much anything you want it to be.
7 Wordpress Database Queries To Search Your Blog For Anything
Running a Wordpress blog or a website isn't really that much of a big deal at the beginning. It's actually pretty simple. You install Wordpress on a webserver, you upload and install a theme, start blogging and you've got your website up and running. For the first two years, it's a piece of cake. You may not have a successful blog from day one, but you know what - if you're a good writer, the traffic starts arriving.
How To Protect WordPress from Intrusion: Your Must-Read Checklist
Botnets around the world have turned their attention from sending out spam emails to systematically hacking into Wordpress installs; it's a lucrative business given that Wordpress powers 40% of all blogs. Especially considering that even we fell victim to this, it's about time we did a comprehensive post on exactly how to protect your self-hosted Wordpress install.
Blogger vs. Wordpress.com: A Complete Comparison
The two undisputed kings of the free blogging sphere are Google's Blogger and the content management system-turned-host WordPress.com. While both offer what every free-thinking democracy-guzzling thought-cannon wants – a place to express themselves – there are some core differences in each service. Both WordPress.com and Blogger are workable free solutions, but which is the right one for you? This detailed breakdown of each service should hopefully help you decide.
Affordable, Secure and Fast Web Hosting by SiteGround [Giveaway]
Picking the right web hosting service is the very first step for anyone wanting to build a new website. If you don't know where to start, finding one for the right price with the right set of features is close to an impossible mission. That's why we came up with the Best Web Hosting Services page, to help new webmasters along with their decision. More experienced webmasters will agree that switching web hosts is a excruciating process -- one that must, if possible, be avoided at any cost. Therefore, selecting the right web host at the very beginning is crucial. So today, we'll show you what you can expect from SiteGround -- one of the most respected web hosting service providers in the market. We're also giving away 25 1-year shared web hosting accounts from SiteGround valued at $1185!
Give Your Subscriber Count a Boost With Pippity Pop-Ups [Giveaway]
I think the most important stage of development for any blog is the moment that you first launch your newsletter. This week, we'll be giving away 25 Pippity licenses, a premium Wordpress pop-up plugin (that doesn't frustrate) worth $49. Find out what Pippity can do for you and how you can win one.
A Tutorial On Using AJAX In WordPress
AJAX is a remarkable web technology that moved us beyond the simple “click link, go to another page” structure of The Internet 1.0. It enables websites to dynamically fetch and display content without the user moving away from the current page. Making use of AJAX is quite easy to do from within the WordPress environment, and today we show you how.
Setup A Proxy On Your WordPress Site To Bypass Filters & Firewalls
Everyday the onslaught to our freedom and censorship of the internet continues to escalate, but you can help. If you want to ensure certain sites remain available, then look no further than a new, free Wordpress plugin called RePress. It allows you to quickly and easily setup a web proxy without complicated programming.
How To Use A Wordpress Content Template To Write Faster
Wordpress is a brilliant invention, and has made it possible for more and more people to have amazing websites, with beautiful themes. However, there is still the matter of the content area, which still needs to be formatted for pictures, ads and well-spaced content. With a few simple steps, you can create your very own carefully formatted content template that will appear every time you click "Add New" in Wordpress.