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Us WordPress geeks have a strange addiction: how to use WordPress to the fullest! This is what keeps us up at 1 AM experimenting with
FeedBurner is the free RSS subscription service which I have been using for many years on my various blogs to keep track of how many
If you would like to import tweets into your WordPress site and save them as posts, I found a new free plugin yesterday called Twitter2Posts
There are many open source CMS software available and in some situations you might want to try a few of them other than WordPress. There
There are times when I hear someone else’s words and wonder how exactly they figured out what was in my brain before I have. For
Most WordPress themes these days make use of Post Thumbnails or Featured Images as they are also called – these are one image that you
When we say that WordPress is a content management system we don’t just mean that it is a text publishing system. In fact, WordPress is
oEmbed is an open format that allows website publishers to fetch third party content with a URI and embed it on their websites. This content
Last month WordPress released version 3.4 and with this release came some really cool new features. I am sure many of you already updated to
In the last post, we tried to learn how to display category images by displaying company profiles at the bottom of our posts. Each company
Themeforest is the largest WordPress theme marketplace which currently sells over 6000 themes and HTML templates. Users can upload themes to sell and Themeforest takes
Showcasing your content on a WordPress powered website has become so wonderful now with the sliders, jQuery, and so many nifty tools. However, even with
Lots of people are now powering their business websites with WordPress, one feature that a lot of business websites need is a staff listing section.
WordPress comes equipped with a powerful visual editor called TinyMCE. This utility is itself a separate opensource project maintained and developed by MoxieCode Systems. TinyMCE
As the most popular CMS in the world, WordPress is used by all kind of websites and all kind of people. Websites and people behind
This is the third post in our WordPress CMS Features series. Previously we covered How to Create Custom Post Types and How to Create Custom
Pinterest has taken over the social web and is now considered one of the hottest sites at the moment. At its core, Pinterest is a
I am launching my own theme company ( hopefully at the end of this month ) called ThemeFurnace, so over the last few months I
Ive mentioned before abuot the importance of having an army of useful code snippets and functions you can use when coding your WordPress themes, I
It seems like many WordPress users are having trouble with Facebook sharing. The most common issue is Facebook not showing thumbnail image for posts when
Shortcodes are all very well, but they are not the ideal solution if you wanted to add extra styles to your WordPress post editor screen.
This post is an attempt to provide a glossary for the common terms used in WordPress Themes. This glossary will help new WordPress users understand
The Mashable blog is king of all things social media, every post they make gets thousands of tweets, facebook likes, google +s and linkedin shares
If you have a WordPress theme on the WordPress.org repository and you update the theme, everyone with your theme installed gets a notification in their
WordPress plugins are a vital piece of the WordPress infrastucture – there are thousands of free and commercial plugins out there that allow you to
Gravatar is a service from Automattic which stands for “Globally Recognized Avatar”, you can signup on their site and upload an avatar for yourself and
If you’d rather show the times on your blog in more user-friendly way, there is a WordPress function called “Human Time Diff” that you can
If you’re a theme developer it is handy to keep a record of various pieces of code you can add to your theme’s functions.php file
With the addition of custom menus in WordPress, it has become much easier to define your own menus. However, it still does not give the
Developing locally on your own computer or on-site server can save time and provide an easier route for testing and development, and with XAMPP you
Nowadays, tooltips are often seen as a shortcode in several premium themes, however those of which who still carry on the simple blogging tradition that
Changing the logo on a WordPress login page is a great way to add some branding to a site, particularly when building sites for clients
The post thumbnail or featured image was a great addition to WordPress and may have helped spur the “Magazine Theme” boom we have seen over
Plugins are great, we use a number on WPLift, but are they always neccessary ? A lot of plugins just replicate functionality that you could
RSS is one of the primary delivery means for your blog’s content, your most loyal readers will likely access it via your RSS feed but
It helps when coding your own themes to have an array of code snippets to hand that you can incorporate into your the theme, I
We all need a little reminder about various WordPress tags and functions when coding our templates, if you don’t want to keep refering to the
An options panel is pretty much essential these days for any premium theme; they are a great step forward in theme design for the casual