WordPress 3.6 is coming quickly, with the recent announcement of WordPress 3.6 Beta 3. With the release of WordPress 3.6, we will see a major addition to the WordPress Write Screen: Post Formats. Some say that this a big ripoff of what Tumblr has been doing for a while, but I disagree. I think it’s [...]
Adding a RESTful API to your WordPress has just become the flip of a switch. Literally. Recently, Voce Platforms – a Voce Communications company – released a plugin named Thermal API. This plugin enables any WordPress powered site to have a full RESTful API. After a bit of toying with it, and the support of [...]
Backing up WordPress can be a daunting task, especially if you’re doing it manually. MySQL export this, FTP backup that, it can be messy and quite time-consuming. Needless to say, the manual effort that the WordPress Codex offers is not scalable. I’ve used a number of different backup solutions, but I couldn’t find one that [...]
One of the most popular SEO plugins for WordPress ever built, All in One SEO Pack Pro just went live with version 2.1. So what has Michael and his team been up to? NEW Social Meta module – control how social media sites view your site NEW Search results preview – see how Google will [...]
So what is this PubSubHubbub stuff? Here’s what the Googlecode page has to say about it. A simple, open, server-to-server web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol as an extension to Atom and RSS. Parties (servers) speaking the PubSubHubbub protocol can get near-instant notifications (via webhook callbacks) when a topic (feed URL) they’re interested in is updated. In [...]
I’ve been using Akismet for a while now, just like a lot of people do. It works really well, I rarely received any false-positives. However, I wasn’t really happy because I was still seeing a bunch of spam that I had clear out everyday. Sometimes upwards of up to 500 comments per day. I looked [...]
I’m run into a number of circumstances where I needed to expire content, whether a Page or a Post, after a specific time and date. That’s when I ran across Post Expirator. This plugin is a great tool which allows you to easily expire content after a specific day and time. Each Page or Post [...]
Are you looking at managing comment discussion on a Custom Post Type by Custom Post Type basis? PMC Disable Comments is the perfect solution for this. While I’m only showing the built-in Post Types for WordPress, any Custom Post Types you have for your site will show up here. These controls will let you manage [...]
The WordPress.org has over 20,000 plugins available to download. Some awesome, some not so awesome. I also find the WordPress.org search functions to not be very helpful, where if it adopted more of a Google style search function, it could be much more practical for people to use. However, I’ve scoured the plugin repository and [...]
Lee Willis recently published a plugin that will let you easily work with the WordPress.org API. “Paste the URL to a WordPress.org plugin into your posts or pages, and have the plugin information pulled in and displayed automatically.” His plugin, WordPress.org Plugin Information Embed, will let you easily tap into a plugin’s current version, rating, [...]
A lot of sites that run on WordPress have a contact form plugin enabled. So which contact form plugin do you choose? Gravity Forms, despite the initial cost of $39, has been the easiest contact form plugin I have ever used for WordPress. Why choose Gravity Forms? I have tested a lot of contact form [...]
Customizing the admin login screen in WordPress is simple. I personally recommend using this plugin: Erident Custom Login and Dashboard It comes with a lot of options for changing link colors, background patterns, adding your own logo, and more. After just 10 minutes of having the plugin installed, I was able to get my own [...]
Adam Pickering, co-founder of Mint Themes, recently posted a list of plugins that they use to help theme debugging. Monster Widget – “The Monster widget consolidates all 13 core widgets into a single widget enabling theme developers to create multiple instances with ease. It has been created to save time during theme development and review [...]
Automattic announced a liveblogging plugin for WordPress last year. It’s a free plugin to download and install for those users with a self-hosted version of WordPress. Those folks that are on WordPress.com can get this service through WordPress.com VIP and the cost begins at $500/mo. Recently, Steph Yu announced the release of some updates to [...]
Love it or hate it, Jetpack can be a huge help when running your WordPress website. Jetpack offers a ton of features for free. Not everyone has a WordPress.com account, however, so author “Wingerspeed” decided to fork Jetpack into a un-hooked version that doesn’t require a WordPress.com account. (some features are unavailable though.) WordPress.com stats, [...]
2012 brought us a lot of great plugins, some premium, some free. I’ve compiled a list of 12 plugins that you should be using in 2013. 1. WordPress SEO by Yoast If you care about optimizing your WordPress site for search engines, WordPress SEO by Yoast is the single WordPress SEO plugin you need. Index, [...]
Live blogging is an important part of the web, as it helps provide people real-time updates when video may not be available online. One of the most common live-blogged events online is the WWDC. There are many products and services already available for liveblogging, but some can be difficult or may be lacking specific features. [...]
The Drag & Drop Featured Image plugin is a way to easily set the featured image of a post. Using this plugin will help bypass the need to help upload an image, then manually set it as the featured image. However, by using the drag and drop feature, you have to take one extra step [...]
AppThemes announced this morning the launch of a new product for their themes called Payments. While it’s a generic product name, it could have long and great lasting effects for its customers. Payments – Make Money Easier Payments is a set of tools that will allow developers to customize the payment process in many different [...]
WooCommerce is a great free e-Commerce platform for WordPress. It offers a lot of functionality out of the box and makes it easy to get started running your own e-Commerce website. Today marks the announcement of WooCommerce Subscription Billing. Here are just a few things you could sell using this subscription billing: Selling magazines — [...]
Jonathan Dingman is a passionate blogger who loves writing about WordPress news, reporting on events, theme releases, awesome plugins, and more. He started using WordPress in 2004 and ran the first WordCamp NYC in 2008.