Content Marketing, WordPress
Nurturing a Million Comments, One at a Time
by Jacob Smith On November 1, 2011
Through our connection with hosting company Voxel dot Net we sometimes get a call to help out with things that don’t directly relate to hosting. A few months back, such a call came in the form of MjsBigBlog.com. MJ runs a great blog focusing on American Idol and other reality TV shows, and the magic … Read More
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Adding a Logout Link to Your WordPress Theme, Plugin or Widget
by Emiliano Jankowski On September 20, 2011
We have been chatting about various changes that make your WordPress site more useful for your viewers. Today, we will look at adding a custom logout link into your theme or plugin, so users can close their sessions. This is not complicated. Lets see how to do it: <pre lang=”php”> <a href=”<?php echo wp_logout_url(); ?>”>Logout</a> … Read More
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Creating readme.txt for Our WordPress Plugin
by Emiliano Jankowski On September 13, 2011
We have been talking in previous posts, about the relevance of the readme.txt file, when you want to put put your plugin into the WordPress plugin directory. This is the text that explains about your plug in, answers common questions, thanks others for their input, and other like information. Sometimes, especially at the beginning, writing … Read More
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Testing an XmlRpc server
by Emiliano Jankowski On September 2, 2011
We are developing a big plugin with a big xmlrpc interface, and sometimes it’s hard to test your functions, and see what are the results. Googling a bit I found a very cool tool. It’s open source so you can download it and test it, or even better, you can edit and add the things … Read More
Technical SEO, WordPress
Fixing a Visual Editor Problem by Taking the Slow Lane
by Jacob Smith On August 12, 2011
Have you ever gotten really stuck working with an application that is supposed to be easy, to the point that you want to rip your hair out or throw your Macbook Pro out of the window? Well, save for the MacBook Pro destruction aspect (that’s another story, relating to OSX Lion upgrades crashing my favorite … Read More
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WordPress Tips and Tricks for Users: The Best 5 Admin Options You Didn’t Know About
by Jacob Smith On March 15, 2011
WordPress is the single most commonly used CMS and blogging platform in the world, running over 18 million sites as of this writing (current stats here). Possibly more striking is that people actually use their WordPress sites! Today, for example, 486,000 posts were written and 400,000,000 words were cobbled together in about 120 languages (that’s … Read More
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Adding Menu Options in WordPress
by Emiliano Jankowski On March 11, 2011
In my past few entries I’ve been exploring some of the basics that make WordPress “tick” and how we use these tools to increase functionality for your site within the WP ecosystem. As you’ve seen, these posts aren’t targeted specifically at general users, but they do have relevance to all of you non-techies out there: … Read More
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Hooks, Action and Filters in WordPress
by Emiliano Jankowski On February 11, 2011
Before continuing adding features to our WordPress plugin, we need to know what hooks, actions and filters are. What does WordPress say? “Hooks are provided by WordPress to allow your plugin to ‘hook into’ the rest of WordPress; that is, to call functions in your plugin at specific times, and thereby set your plugin in … Read More
Technical SEO, Web Design
Writing Your First Plugin for WordPress: A Primer
by Emiliano Jankowski On January 31, 2011
Writing Your First Plugin for WordPress: A Primer One of the great things about WordPress is the possibility to add your own custom functions/processes/enhancements without “touching” the core system. It is what we call a “plugin”. The WordPress definition of a plugin is as follows: “A WordPress Plugin is a program, or a set of … Read More