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,…
WordPress is one of the best platforms around for writers and bloggers. The learning curve is fairly gentle, and it’s highly customizable. Even non-coders can configure it to render the site of their dreams. But did you know that you can make it even better? Take a look at some of the smart, strategic tools we’ve listed below. Using these tools and plugins, writers and…
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…
Using modern web technologies such as HTML5, and web API’s, implementing videos into your WordPress website has never been so pain-free. You can transform any standard blog into a fully loaded video website using just a handful of free, hand-picked video plugins. In this article we shall sample a few of these video plugins that can add some form of video functionality to your website.…
You’ve slaved for weeks. You’ve downed endless cups of coffee and maybe even pulled an all-nighter or two. And now your brand new WordPress website is complete. But before you take that site live, just how sure are you that it’s really ready for primetime? The beauty of a pre-launch checklist, in a word, is certainty. When you have a systematized list to go by,…
Improving the typography of your WordPress website by implementing a new selection of custom fonts is a great way to not only improve the readability of your content, but also create visually appealing elements with comparative ease. The impact of typography on your website visitors is something that should be very high on your priority list and it is a simple way to make your…
Have you enabled Gravatars on your WordPress website? If so, you might want to rethink that decision again. And if you haven’t enabled Gravatars on your website yet, you might want to consider possible alternatives to Gravatar first. Now allow us to explain these thoughts … What are Gravatars for WordPress? What’s the benefit to user avatars? The key disadvantage to using Gravatars Alternatives to…
Sharing content on Twitter is a great way to drive traffic to your site. Yet, the actual Tweet itself doesn’t really provide much information about the content being shared. In best case a standard Tweet would simply contain a small amount of descriptive text written by the user tweeting, a link to the content, a manually uploaded image, and maybe one or two #hashtags or…
You may occasionally come across something called Sticky Posts when reading about WordPress. They’re a relatively unattended feature of WordPress and allow you to highlight selected posts by sticking them on top of your latest posts loop. This comes handy to feature particular posts. With some efforts it’s possible to style or handle sticky posts differently to really mix things up when it comes to…
