WordPress is for everyone, including your friends, family members, and associates. You might want to let these people to blog a post on your behalf, it happens, we’ve all done it before. The default codex that WordPress uses to display author information is quite lousy – in terms of capabilities – and a plugin is usually required, to give authors the spotlight and credit they…
WordPress has just released a new version of it’s content management system, WordPress 4.2 is dubbed “Powell” and brings forth some interesting features, including better and easier content sharing through the “Press This” button, and also less troubling plugins updates through the new streamlined plugin updates feature. Few days before this update, we also saw some news headlines that highlighted some critical security vulnerabilities that…
WordPress as a content management system is built around two important factors: WordPress themes and plugins. Whilst WordPress themes are for organizing and displaying your content in a manner that reflects industry design choices, WordPress plugins are all about expanding your website/blog to new heights with the help of additional features and capabilities. A traditional example would be that you want to optimize your WordPress…
For quite some time we’ve used the Codestyling Localization plugin to translate themes and plugins in WordPress. This plugin was convenient to use and made translating WordPress themes easy, but unfortunately the plugin has not been updated for a very long time and was eventually removed from the official WordPress Plugin Directory. While searching for good alternatives to Codestyling Localization, we’ve found a translation plugin,…
You can’t really over-optimize when it comes to website’s performance and loading speed, those are the two essential things that can always be influenced and changed in some way. And, not that you shouldn’t do it. Optimizing for performance is a very encouraged practice among webmasters, bloggers or website owners and can help you take your website to the next level in many ways. Yes,…
PHP URL Shortener scripts allow you to create your own URL shortening service. URL shortening is a technique used to reduce the amount of characters in any URL. Some blog posts, store products, and other URLs may contain multiple variables which aren’t aesthetically pleasing. They are difficult to remember which makes it very hard for users to type into their browser. Therefore, a solution many…
There are a handful of WordPress forum plugins available that allow you to create fully integrated online communities using WordPress. Long gone are the days of having little option but to install an entirely separate forum board solution which requires users to endure another membership registration and login process. You can of course still opt in for this method of providing visitors an area to…
WordPress has grown in more ways than one over the last couple of years, but one thing that still is missing in WordPress core are default search engine optimization features. We all know the “Allow search engines to index this site.” checkbox when installing a new WordPress installation, but is it going to help us overall? Most likely it’s not, especially not if you want…
To automatically publish content directly from your WordPress website to a variety of social media channels is not only a great way to save yourself some time, but also helps you drive traffic to your site with the minimum of effort. There are a variety of great automated social media publishing plugins available to you via the WordPress Plugin Directory. All of these plugins are…
Widgets may well be the unsung heroes of the WordPress world. Sure, WordPress themes make our websites beautiful, and plugins give us every piece of functionality our hearts can possibly desire, but widgets bridge the gaps. Of course, lately as sidebars have fallen a bit out of design favor and as web design trends have moved towards full-width displays, widgets have lost a little bit…
