Wordpress
Portable WordPress (4)
4/16/22 •
…familiar with WordPress, you’ll know that those three things provide the infrastructure necessary to run a WordPress blog. The following paragraphs will describe how to get your blog configured to…
Add Any Extension to WordPress Pages (2)
3/30/23 •
WordPress allows you add extensions only on posts, but having extensions on pages can be helpful too. So if you’re moving to the WordPress platform, but want to have your…
WordPress Plugins Actually Worth Using (3)
3/21/22 •
WordPress is the best blogging software. In addition to having a solid core with many features, it also includes functionality that allows anyone to improve it through the use of…
Setting Up a WordPress Site: DIY or Pay Someone Else?
12/08/22 •
One of the primary attractions of WordPress is that it’s free. This often means that those considering using WordPress are also trying to decide whether to set up their site…
Enhanced Plugin Admin for WordPress (2)
1/08/21 •
…when the rating drops below 75 out of 100. WordPress version compatibility range. WordPress plugin repository status i.e. in repository, removed from repository, never in repository. You can also hide…
WordPress On-Page SEO with the Real-Time Find and Replace Plugin (20)
3/26/23 •
…In addition, while these changes aren’t saved to the WordPress database, they can be cached by the various WordPress caching plugins so site performance shouldn’t be affected. As you can…
How to Use SyncBack to Enhance WordPress Security
9/05/21 •
WordPress’ popularity makes it a preferred target of malicious hackers looking to make a quick buck. And much has been written about how to harden WordPress against such attacks, but…
WordPress Theme Frameworks Are Overrrated
3/19/22 •
…promise of WordPress theme frameworks is the potential to abstract away theme details from end-users and provide them with more flexibility and stability. However, in practice I don’t think theme…
Tagging Partial RSS Feeds in WordPress
11/03/21 •
…learning more, read this excellent introduction to Technorati tags. My real reason for this post is to discuss how to add tags to WordPress RSS feeds that deliver partial content…
No Category Base for WordPress (11)
8/26/20 •
…this plugin, become ‘mysite.com/my-category/’. You can download this plugin from the WordPress plugin repository. The No Category Base plugin doesn’t require any configuration or modification of any WordPress files. In…
Migrating from GD Star Rating to WP PostRatings On Your WordPress Site (16)
3/26/20 •
…need to do: Download and activate the WP PostRatings plugin. This is necessary so that a new table is added to your WordPress database. Connect to your WordPress database via…
Improved Include Page Plugin for WordPress (47)
8/20/23 •
…Content can be displayed with different styles (full, teaser, custom ‘more’ link). WordPress filters are applied to both the content and the title. Supports the WordPress Shortcode API. Parameters The…
Ultimate Category Excluder for WordPress (135)
8/30/23 •
Ultimate Category Excluder (UCE) is a WordPress plugin that allows you to quickly and easily exclude categories from your front page, archives, feeds, and searches. Just select which categories you…
Include Pages in WordPress RSS Feeds (308)
12/31/21 •
…feeds continue to pop up; and even search engines make use of feeds to discover the latest content a site has published. And while the RSS feed support in WordPress…
Social Media Email Alerts for WordPress (14)
9/18/23 •
…the ‘Plugin’s menu in WordPress. 3. Set up the rules for triggering an alert on the admin page. Rules can be based on referring domain e.g. Digg.com or by parameters…
Improving WordPress Performance
4/08/22 •
…(e.g. CSS, JS) and then have your WordPress install reference those files. To upload files to Amazon’s CloudFront, you can use Amazon’s interface or download a program like the Amazon…
The Handiest WordPress Plugin You've Never Heard Of (158)
3/31/22 •
There are some WordPress plugins out that are incredibly helpful, but because they don’t solve a specific, well-defined problem they don’t get noticed. Take for example the Search RegEx plugin…
WordPress Plugin Reveals a Black Hat's Network (7)
10/05/21 •
A while back John Andrews wrote a post about trusting WordPress plugins and how that really isn’t such a good idea. I agree with everything John wrote, but up until…
A Guide to Publishing on the Web
3/18/22 •
…limitations imposed by these programs you will become quite frustrated. An alternative solution involves using web-based website builders such as WordPress or MoveableType. These programs are generally geared towards building…
All Free Downloads
2/19/17 •
…for WordPress By default WordPress RSS feeds include only posts. So if you’re using WordPress as more of a CMS as opposed to just a blogging platform, none of your…
Real-Time Find and Replace for WordPress (1,118)
3/27/23 •
Introduction This plugin allows you to dynamically (i.e. at the time when a page is generated) replace code and text from themes and other plugins with code and text of…
Free Blogging Software
6/09/22 •
…flexible enough for my needs. And then along came WordPress, a PHP-based blogging tool that is flexible, customizable, and free of charge. I highly recommend this software for anyone that…
Republish Old Posts for WordPress (756)
10/13/21 •
Introduction The Republish Old Posts plugin, inspired by the now defunct and no longer available Old Post Promoter, helps revive old posts by resetting the publish date to the current…
One Big Site or Many Niche Sites? (3)
6/09/21 •
…Why? Because every upgrade, tweak, and test needs to be repeated 10 times. Upgrading WordPress? Do it 10 times. Is the WordPress upgrade buggy such that you need to install…
Free File Comparison Software (2)
11/10/23 •
I maintain several websites all of which make use of WordPress for managing and publishing content. WordPress is quite feature-rich out of the box, but it becomes even more powerful…
