WordPress
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
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A Review of the WordPress SEO Plugin
by Paul Fleming On January 6, 2011
After working with the All-in-One-SEO plugin for WordPress for a few years now, we’ve seen a new player enter the space in the form of WordPress developer/blogger/speaker Yoast who has released his WordPress SEO plugin. For those who follow Joost de Valk, you’ll be very aware that he has some very strong opinions but for … Read More