May the Force be with your WordPress.
Hopefully by now, everyone is aware of Google Analytics. If not, it’s a free* application by Google that lets you analyze your web traffic to very finite levels. Google released a new feature this month called Activity Stream. It helps you monitor and gather insights about how your site is socially shared on the web. [...]
Drew Strojny, founder of a premium WordPress theme shop called The Theme Foundry, pushed out a May update for their company. Quite some interesting news, to say the least. First, Drew highlighted the launch of their latest theme called Portfolio. It’s a $68 premium WordPress theme that showcases your photos. I must say, it is [...]
Barry Schwartz of SERoundTable.com, a blog all about Search Engines, posted this morning that WordPress theme sponsors may be under attack from Google. Those links you see, either “Theme sponsored by…” or “Designed by…” may be getting a downgraded authority because of those links. I know that for a fact, some sites like StudioPress or [...]
Earlier this month, I launched the second version of WPForce. Here is the nitty-gritty of what went into building the second version of this site. Choosing a Framework (and a theme) The first version of WPForce was built on the Genesis Framework created by StudioPress. Since I found it so easy to work with, I [...]
Joost, who runs Yoast.com (the term Yoast is help the English-speaking folks actually pronounce his name right ;), is running a WordPress hosting survey to figure out from the community which webhost people recommend. He’s particularly looking for people in Europe to fill it out, which isn’t a surprise since Joost lives in the Netherlands. [...]
The WordPress core team cares both about user experience and about performance. Here is further proof. Our allowed attributes rules in kses.php create a large number of empty arrays. These can all be replaced with true instead. This reduces memory usage by 62 kilobytes – not huge, but it all adds up. duck_ is completely [...]
Let me preface this review with the fact that I’ve been using WordPress since 2003, so I have a lot of experience with WordPress (self-hosted) and I’m a huge fan of WordPress. But let me dive into the hosted platforms, because they’re different than the self-hosted applications. Let’s look at WordPress.com (Hosted WordPress), Blogger.com, and [...]
This is what my friends think I do, this is what my mom thinks I do, this is what my girlfriend thinks I do. I’m a WordPress Consultant.
WordPress has pretty good bulk editing tools for Posts. But Pages are a different story. There is was a plugin called PageMash that hasn’t been updated in a number of years, which did a really good job of bulk managing. It would let you drag and drop Pages just like you can with the Custom [...]
Now there’s an idea I can run with. The ability to natively manage the media library in WordPress in something I’ve wanted for a long time. Sure, there are plugins to do it, like Media Tags, but having this functionality natively would be great. Ipstenu made a comment and suggested the use of tags vs [...]
Dre Armeda, a close friend of mine, recently inked up with a new WordPress tattoo on his arm. He’s not the first to get a WordPress tattoo, John Hawkins also has one. After speaking to Dre about the tattoo, this is what he had to say about it: WordPress has fed my kids, has enabled [...]
From everyone here at WP Force, being me, Jonathan, we wish you a very, merry, amazing, Christmas :)
MaxCDN, owned by NetDNA, is offering 1,000gb (1tb) for $1, discounted from the normal $39.95. Grab it quickly though before the deal disappears. The 1tb doesn’t expire for 12 months, so you have 1 year to use it — this is great for smaller sites that want the speed, but don’t think they will use [...]
WordPress uses a Status for posts and pages. Something that is often overlooked, is that there is a Pending Review status. Pending Review and Drafts Using the Draft and Pending Review statuses to help organize content is an easy, built-in way, to manage content. For example, you should use Pending Review as the state for [...]
A couple days ago, I got an alert from my webhost that they had rebooted my server (I run Storm on Demand by Liquidweb). Their 24/7 monitoring team noticed high memory and CPU usage, and acted quickly to resolve the issue. I had no idea anything was happening, this all happened behind the scenes. So [...]
