What's New In WordPress 3.3 ?
If you haven’t logged into your dashboard lately, you probably should. Wordpress 3.3 was released about a few weeks ago, and as a major release it brings some fairly significant changes which I’ll outline today. The underlying theme is accessibility for new users.
WordPress Announces WordAds To Compete With Google AdSense [News]
WordPress has announced that they are integrating their own way for bloggers to make money. They have announced a new program called WordAds that allows website owners to show ads on their blog, and not have to rely on Google AdSense. The official WordPress blog announced the program, and took a little shot at Google in the process.
How To Control WordPress Versions Using Subversion [Linux]
Most of you probably already know that WordPress powers a large amount of websites that we look at every day. With the large userbase and support, you can do a lot of cool things with it. While WordPress even offers one-click upgrades to the latest WP versions, some people simply can't use it because their server doesn't support it.
10 Essential First Steps When Starting A Wordpress Blog
Having created quite a few blogs, I'd like to think that I have a good system down for those essential first steps, and I hope it can be of use to you too. By following these you'll get a good head start in the world of blogging and hopefully an influx of traffic to give you the motivation to carry on. If you've already started, think of this as a checklist as I'm sure there's a few you haven't done yet.
5 Things You Might Not Have Known You Could Do With Wordpress
Being the most versatile blogging system ever, it’s no surprise that developers have twisted and pulled Wordpress into becoming so much more through the clever use of plugins. If you thought Wordpress was only for blogging, think again. Here’s 5 others ways you can use the Wordpress system, with free and premium choices where available.
How to Do an Automated Remote Backup of Your Wordpress Blog
This weekend, my website got hacked for the first time ever. I figured it was an event that was bound to happen eventually, but I still felt a bit shocked. I was lucky that I had a backup of my website but it made me realize just how dangerous it is to make such infrequent backups. It also made me realize the extent of the damage that could have occurred if the database itself had got hacked.
3 Ways to Encourage Comments on Your Wordpress Blog
Getting comments on your blog is a great motivator to keep you going on with the long haul that is blogging. Just knowing that someone is out there, appreciating your work feels great, but not everyone is willing to comment or even has something to say. Let’s take a look today at 3 ways to encourage users to comment through the clever use of plugins.
Make A Product Review Database With Wordpress: Custom Post Types, Custom Fields, Featured Images & Widgets!
Last time we showed you how to create a simple events listing using perhaps the most powerful feature of WordPress 3.0 - custom post types. After some requests to develop this further, today we’ll be creating a product review database to tie together everything we've learnt so far.
How To Pull & Publish User Information For An Author Bio Section in WordPress
You know, there really is a lot to be said for Wordpress. While it's true that most people will simply install a theme and only customize the Wordpress site to the extent allowed by the control panel, the truth is that with just a little bit of study and practice, you can easily tweak the PHP files to customize it for your needs.
3 Methods To Host Your Wordpress Blog Images On An External Server
One of the biggest burdens of any website are the images. So it's only logical that you can lighten the load of your sites - and make them faster - by hosting the images on a speedier external server. Today, we are going to look at some free alternatives to host your Wordpress blog images on external servers.
Build Loyal Visitors To Your Website Or Blog With The Help Of PunchTab
No blog will have a meaningful life without any visitors, so getting people to come and read your web writing is essential for your blog to survive. While getting many people to visit your blog is fairly achievable, turning them into loyal visitors is a bit more tricky. Producing great content is one way to achieve that. But you need more than quality content to keep your readers coming back for more.
How To Create Your Own Basic Wordpress Widgets
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.
Automate Your Wordpress Backup With Simple Shell Scripting & CRON
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.
2 New Cool Wordpress Plugins & Understanding The Wordpress Theme Structure
This week I'll be a taking a look at a superior alternative to the often praised All-In-One SEO; a plugin that gives you the power of a Wordpress publishing system but allows you to output static HTML files for hosts that don't support PHP; as well as showing you how to make sense of some of the template files contained in your theme directory.
How To Configure The Various W3 Total Cache Plugin Settings For Your Wordpress Blog
A while ago I talked about the benefits of installing the W3TC plugin on your Wordpress blog in order to speed it up with various caching, but some readers were understandably a little wary about the plugin without some sort of tutorial to help them. Luckily, the defaults will work well for 90% of us. Follow the guide, and even with some basic settings you're going to see some form of speed improvement.
Make Your Wordpress Blog iPad Friendly with Onswipe
More and more people who access the Internet are doing so from an iPad or another tablet. So if you have an online presence, it would be a good idea to adjust the interface of your site to be tablet friendly. Automattic has realized this and have added a feature that will optimize its 18 million blogs for tablet viewing.
5 Tips To Get Your Blog Updates Published On Google News
One day when I was browsing news stories, I noticed that one particular story was published not by CNN, Associated Press or the Washington Post, but instead by a small time blogger who had landed a pretty cool exclusive story. Front page Google News. For a moment I thought about the traffic that must have offered her site. So I set out to learn exactly what it takes to become an authorized Google News publisher.
3 Ways The W3 Total Cache Plugin Can Speed Up Your Wordpress Blog
Self-hosted WordPress is a fantastic system, no doubt about it. But it can become a little bloated resulting in a slow load time.