Wordpress is arguably the most popular and the best blogging platform out there. You might have installed Wordpress on your site, but you might be scared to experiment with Wordpress worrying that you could break your site and Wordpress. Experimenting is one of the best way to learn new things and if you break your site, [...]
February 8, 2010
It’s become evident that a large portion of the WPTavern readership is made up of consultants. This next plugin should be right up their alley. It’s called Technical Support and is authored by Konstantin Kovshenin. The plugin provides a dashboard widget that after configuration, gives clients an easy way to contact you for support. After [...]
February 5, 2010
Everybody who installs WordPress quite often knows the problem: You always have to do the same adjustments, for example deleting the Hello World post. That cost time and money. Our friend Thomas Scholz alias toscho had a simple but genius idea, he puts all needed option settings in a Plugin. Just activate the Plugin, deactivate [...]
February 3, 2010
This article is taken from Packt’s “WordPress 2.8 Theme Design” with permission. A review of the book is coming soon. I don’t agree with everything that’s said, but I’ve decided to publish it as the overall jist of the post will be beneficial to many. This is the nice thing about WordPress it’s all “dynamic”. Once [...]
February 2, 2010
WordPress is driven by a MySQL database. This is something active WordPress users would know. However, if you only just read about it here from us, here’s what you should know. MySQL is a free relational database management system available in most web hosting services. All of the WordPress data like the posts, comments, categories, [...]
February 2, 2010
Tired of WordPress themes promising to be easy to use, but never living up to that promise? We hear you. Headway fulfills that promise with visual layout tools that are as easy to use as desktop software. Headway is “everyone easy” not just “designer easy.” Check it out: * Drag and drop easy means unlimited layout [...]
February 1, 2010
Today I’m going to show you how to automatically add a tr.im link for each post on your Wordpress install using a little PHP, CSS and the tr.im API.I was recently working on a project for a client when they required this function, to cut a long story short they changed the design specification and [...]
January 29, 2010
Contact Form is one of the most important page for all websites. If you are running an e-commerce website, you need a contact form so that your potential buyers can reach you to get more information. Even if you run a personal blog, you will also need a contact form so that bloggers from same [...]
January 26, 2010
f you are a regular user of WordPress like me then you might get bored of the default user interface of WordPress. Although the User Interface of WordPress is good but there is always room for improvement. Automattic the company behind WordPress has decided to go for Open Source Design Contests to make the User [...]
January 26, 2010
Basically, a Theme framework is a WordPress theme that you can extend using functions, styles and child themes. Child themes are most of the times two files: function.php and style.css. An optional directory containing images can be used as well. Child themes can’t work without a parent theme, which is a synonym for “Theme framework”. So, why [...]
February 8, 2010
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