Wordpress

10 real-world applications for WordPress Custom Post Types

December 6, 2011 Wordpress

custom-post-types

The more I look at WordPress sites I’m building now, the more I’m amazed at how they’ve changed from sites I built 2 years ago. Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies have changed the way we manage content in WordPress, and they’ve done wonders for our favourite CMS’ ability to work with more complex websites. [...]

Read the full article →

New Thesis site for Brook Farm Cuffley

October 13, 2010 Thesis Child Theme

Recently I was asked by Brook Farm in Cuffley (that’s in England, a soggy, bankrupt little island off the coast of France) to redesign their website. I don’t often tackle design projects, but I figured I could improve the existing site. Here’s what it looked like before:

Read the full article →

Actually I DO have an opinion on the Thesis vs. WordPress debate

July 14, 2010 Blog
Thumbnail image for Actually I DO have an opinion on the Thesis vs. WordPress debate

So today was fun, wasn’t it WordPress & Thesis people? In case you missed it, here’s a brief rundown of what happened: Update: Thesis now sports a shiny new Split license which should appease all you GPL lovers. Can we get some work done now? Bill Erikson sent out a Tweet explaining that WordPress had [...]

Read the full article →

2 more must-have CMS enabling plugins for WordPress

November 25, 2009 Tutorials

W00t! Nettuts published a new post on a bunch of new WordPress plugins this morning. Most of them are worthless but there are 2 very (for a change) useful plugins I definitely see potential for, especially if you’re using WordPress as a CMS. Custom Class Selector First up, Custom Class Selector. If you know how [...]

Read the full article →

How to fix Thesis Image Framing Issues

August 13, 2009 Thesis Child Theme

Edit: With the release of Thesis 1.6, Chris has fixed the framing issue discussed below. If you’re still running 1.5, this post is still relevant. If not, not. Today I stumbled across an annoying bug in Thesis 1.5.1 that stops image frames from displaying even when the Thesis options panel and individual WordPress post settings [...]

Read the full article →

CMS your WordPress with these 10 plugins

July 15, 2009 Blog

There are 2 ways to make WordPress into a better CMS. The first way involves a lot more time spent building your theme and ultimately a lot more cost. The second way uses third party plugins to extend your CMS’ functionality. If I could install any 10 plugins to make a CMS more CMS-like, these [...]

Read the full article →

How to make the Thesis theme more Bing-friendly

June 22, 2009 Thesis Child Theme

You may think that Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, is a complete waste of time given Google’s 90%+ market share. But Bing is different. Unlike Google or Yahoo, it aggregates content. Ian Lurie, who writes about SEO/online marketing at Conversation Marketing, puts it this way: Microsoft’s Bing is the latest example of search engines as [...]

Read the full article →

How to instantly improve WordPress SEO using Permalinks

March 12, 2009 Wordpress

This short tutorial will show you how to clean up your WordPress URL’s from the default structure e.g. http://example.com/?p=123 to a more search engine friendly structure. This is a good thing, and Google will reward you for it. An introduction to Permalinks Permalinks are links to pages, or posts in a blog that point to [...]

Read the full article →

How to protect WordPress from comment spam

March 10, 2009 Wordpress

According to real statistics (no, not the made up statistics I usually talk about) Akismet has blocked 9,971,434,465 spam comments to date. Akis-what? Akismet, a nifty little plugin that ships with WordPress is “a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry [...]

Read the full article →

How to login to WordPress and customize your user settings

March 9, 2009 Wordpress

On your left you’ll see the beautifully styled, easy-to-manage WordPress login page. This is where it all starts for WP users. You’ll find the page at http://example.com/wp-login.php (obviously your blog’s name goes where the example.com bit is). The first time you login to WordPress your user name will be admin and your password will be [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries