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Check out this impressive array: WordPress Post Format Eye-Candy: Tumblr Style Theme Inspiration Showcase by Kym Huynh at WordCast. The problem those site designs solve is inherent in WordPress, which will permit the posting of many types of information. Just text alone – WP is ready to accept haiku-or-shorter-length compositions, documents long enough to require [...]
Assuming that I’m getting it. You can get it from Otto’s post here: Post types and formats and taxonomies, oh my! A long quote follows, but before we go there, I’d like to point out that (1) I don’t know if Otto is a first or last name or both – but, I’m going to [...]
A Common-Sense WordPress Security Primer, by David Coveney of the Liverpool-based InterConnectit IT. An excerpt: There’s been a big fuss lately over the latest WordPress hacks that have targetted older versions of WordPress. And in my view, they show the less pretty side of WordPress and some people in the community… but not all of [...]
Straightforward, simple instructions for a critical task: How to do a Full WordPress Backup and Restore. Vladimir Prelovac, on his blog, Prelovac.com, does things which seem to fall into two categories. The first is providing concise and clear instructions on important subjects which, despite their importance, don’t inspire people to write oustanding tutorials (or perhaps [...]
We’ve just found some malware – or, more precisely described, links inserted into our posts which, if followed, would lead readers to sites containing malware. One of the variants is described as “Reycross [dot] com” – one of the ones which hit us leads people to the site blog [dot] campe [dot] com [dot] br. [...]
Dan Masters – a web designer in Austin, has a very persuasive review of Zoundry, an off-line blogging client. That is, one composes a post irrespective of having an internet connection. I’d been looking for an off-line client, and Masters’ review persuaded me to try it out. Masters’ piece actually predates a new version called [...]
HTML Ipsum Presents – is a website, as described by Smashing Magazine, “A useful little website created by Chris Coyier. It provides you with the standard Latin text already in HTML tags. Clicking on any of the blocks automatically copies the text to your clipboard!” Here’s one sample copied and pasted, in one click, from [...]
Dozens of links for those wanting to customize code – or build a theme from scratch: WordPress Developer’s Toolbox. Smashing Magazine. Most of this work is – admittedly – more sophisticated than my skill set – but the outcomes are all beautiful (or otherwise desirable), and, based on my experience with Smashing Magazine, likely to [...]
Blog Design Studio has great explanations (e.g. What is this NoFollow thing all about! – you won’t find a more concise explanation anywhere); free WP themes, some outstanding WP tutorials (particularly about security issues specific to WordPress, an often-ignored subject), and, not least, an impressive portfolio of their own work. One of those was the [...]
Noupe.com may have a bug. If it does, the bug is understatement. For instance, 40 Exceptional “CMS Enabling” WordPress Plugins is about 40 exceptional WordPress plugins, and many of them do, in fact, make WordPress a better CMS. 1 But these plugins aren’t limited to CMS use – some of them just are meta-WordPress plugins – [...]
The super-talented Randa Clay has a timely basic explanation of the new(ish) image handling functions in current versions of WP. Check out “How to Efficiently Manage Your Images in WordPress.” While you’re there, don’t miss Randa’s portfolio. Evernote lets you save all the interesting things you see online into a single place. Access all those [...]
Adrian at Rubiqube: the excellent WordPress Tutorial: Adding Tabs to Your Blog Sidebar Also don’t miss his Visual WordPress Theme, which I find quite attractive: Visual: The WordPress Theme for Passionate Bloggers. A screenshot, and more after the jump: Evernote lets you save all the interesting things you see online into a single place. Access [...]
WPPro (WordPress Pro) has undergone a site redesign, based on a design by Jason Reynolds and as before, powered by WordPress using a grid design build on the solid Blueprint CSS Framework. one difference is that the theme is not available for download. Some back-end stuff is pending, but to most part the site is [...]
Blogging Tips – written, it seems, by a large gang of extremely skilled web and graphic designers – is a blog I wish I’d been reading from the beginning. Some posts well worth reading: Improve Your Blog Typography with Typogrify A Few Tips On Paragraph Length (a question which should be considered, in my view, [...]
Matt Garrett’s BlogTactics.com – which I came across quite by accident – is a blog about the business of blogging. There’s some paid content – and I gather that Mr. Garrett does some consulting about Internet businesses – but nonetheless useful pieces on subjects as: blog monetization SEO (search engine optimization) Blog Setup Blog traffic [...]
The mysterious Seth W.1, has written two very helpful posts on Blogussion. Membership Sites: Can You Make Money from Them? is actually about two things: Using WordPress as a membership site – with its native capabilities, and with some plugins. The answer – depending on the content and/or the audience – yes!. But we’d like [...]
Adrian Diaconescu, the force behind Rubiqube, has published the first in an eight-part series about designing clean websites that still make a big impact, by using simple layout, beautiful typography and striking photography. The first is Common Sense Tips for Creating Web Design Layouts, and it’s so rich in information and resources that you might [...]
Check out TinkerPriest Media for a couple of oustanding WP Themes and a bunch of excellent tutorials. Some posts worth looking at include 10 WordPress Plugins I Couldn’t Run a Site Without Backup, Backup, Backup! The themes I’ve seen and liked include: Magazine Basic Feed Me, Seymour Great Chefs – Great Restaurants Theme Getaway Graphics [...]