Category Archives: Plugins
Extensive Roundup of the Best WordPress Plugins You’ll Ever Need: Year 2012 Edition
Daniels MekšsBesides being a beautiful, easy to use and powerful platform by itself, WordPress is also loved because of it's high level of customization and optimization. Plugins are the best way to optimize and enrich your WordPress blog. And it's not limited to performance only. The plugins WordPress offers range from page speed optimization, user engagement, advanced backup, full theme modification to social sharing and search engine optimization.
WP-Powered Job Boards – All The Tools You’ll Ever Need!
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Manage All Your WordPress Sites From One Place: Meet ManageWP
For a kickoff we've prepared a review of a really neat and useful service some of you guys will be keen on. Those of you who manage more than one WordPress blog will be more or less familiar with the management problems multiple blogs can create. Installing new plugins, updating platforms, keeping an eye on the posts - it's getting pretty inconvenient if you've got couple of active blogs. Yes, some of you might have already figured out what kind of service we're writing about here. ManageWP is a service that allows you to manage all your WordPress websites from one single dashboard. What does it mean?
15 WordPress Plugins For A Better Facebook Experience
Jenna ScaglioneWith hundreds of millions of users accessing Facebook on a daily basis, it’s important to take advantage of everything the social network has to offer. Facebook plugins give businesses the ability to create an enhanced experience for their audience so users can share content easily and effortlessly. Facebook plugins are centered on users and their experience with your website, blog or Facebook Page. Plugins make interacting and communicating with your content simple by providing users with many reasons to share and interact, receive friend's recommendations or "like" your Facebook Page.
Create Elegant Tags With Sliding Post Count For WordPress
Rochester OliveiraTired of the boring category style being always same, like a mini menu? Tired of items arranged horizontally or vertically, styled always the same way? Yes, I'm tired of it too. So let's make things more interesting now. Our starting point will be a cool sliding tags design made by Thomas Bosée. Then we'll learn how to use WordPress wp_list_categories function, how to edit its result, how to code CSS and finally a little of jQuery "Black Magic". So, let's rock!
To Fight Spam With Akismet Or With An Alternative?
Akismet is one of the most popular anti-spam measures for WordPress in particular and many other CMSes/platforms in general. The Akismet plugin is bundled with the official WordPress install by default, and it is one of the most reliable solutions when it comes to fighting spam.
Mouthwatering Collection Of jQuery Plugins And CSS3 Tricks
Costin GămanI'm sure that at one point or another you were designing a website and thought it could use a little something extra. That bit of something that adds extra functionality or enhances what it already has, making it not only easier for the user to receive the information they seek, but also present it in a neat package. In no particular order, I give you a handpicked collection of jQuery plugins and some CSS3 tricks to top it off. Surely, with these in your designer arsenal, your creations will stand out more than ever before.
9 WordPress Security Tips To Protect Your Website From Harm
Christian VasileWordPress is the most popular Content Management System in the world, used by more than 60 million people around the globe. WordPress hosts more than half of the blogs itself. The popular CMS is used by huge companies and associations in the world such as TechCrunch, NBC, CNN, CBS or the National Football League of the US. There are more than 2.5 billion WordPress pages in the world, read by more than 300 million people daily, while around 500.000 new posts and 400.000 comments are posted each day.
This is huge and shows how important and widely used WordPress is. WordPress doesn’t show signs of slowing down either, so expect these numbers to increase dramatically in the near future. Therefore we also need to learn how to protect ourselves, because there is no popular web technology nowadays not targeted by hackers and robots. Today I will talk about tips, tricks and plugins to keep your WordPress blog safe from hackers and robots. This doesn’t mean you have to do all of them, but using as many of them as possible is recommended.
Create Your Own Premium Membership WordPress Blog – Part 1/3
Who doesn't want to earn money from blogging? I mean, sometimes you have shortages, sometimes comments let you down, payment is not THAT good. But you know, it's still better than real work, right? (Troll's comments in 3..2..1..) So instead of spending a few bucks in order to get a premium membership system, why not create your own? And you can also learn a little bit about WordPress. Big deal, isn't it? And you will be amazed at how easy is to build such great feature. This is our first post from 3 and we'll be talking about user roles, register, show / hide content based on user's role. So, Let's Rock!
WordPress Plugin Development – Relate Posts as a Series Part 2
So, we started our dive into WordPress plugin development with the first part of this tutorial where we talked a little about planning, basic plugin structure, custom post types, metaboxes and how to add custom functions to WordPress's defaults actions. Today we will talk a little more about metaboxes and jQuery, shortcodes, and front-end functionality. All these things with a pretty practical example of how to make a plugin that will relate posts as a series. So, let's rock!
