Normally, changing the Category of a Post is as simple as editing and updating the Post in question. But what if we are talking about moving dozen, hundreds or THOUSANDS of Posts? That is a lot of mouse clicking! There is a quicker and easier way. WordPress has a concept known as Default Post Category.... Read→
In this Theme View update we feature three free themes specifically for photographers, photo-bloggers or visual artists. These themes put all the emphasis on the images and allow you to showcase your imagery or art, unlike traditional blogs that are typically driven by written content. One the greatest... Read→
In this Plugin Picks we look at plugins for widgets. Widgets “…add visitor visual and interactivity options and features, such as sidebar widgets for post categories, tag clouds, navigation, search, etc. They were originally designed to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design... Read→
Excerpts are short, text only previews of posts that WordPress can use in various places as teasers or introductions. These can be automatically generated or custom tailored when creating a Post. By default these are limited to 55 words, but there is no easy way to increase or decrease this in WordPress... Read→
In this Theme View update we feature three free WordPress from the official WordPress Repository. Parament, a dark theme with attention getting orange call outs, zeeBizzCard, a clean multi-use theme with several user customization options and Jeans, a fun denim inspired casual theme. One the greatest... Read→
http://www.vimeo.com/31100268 “… new powers to block Americans’ access websites that corporations don’t like. The bill would criminalize posting all sorts of standard web content — music playing in the background of videos, footage of people dancing, kids playing video games, and... Read→
Click to Enlarge More and more themes are taking advantage of Theme Options in WordPress, particularly when site administrators are not designers or developers but still want some ability to make widespread changes to the site without breaking functionality or aesthetics. Today I’m looking at a fairly... Read→
Click to Enlarge Proving once again that WordPress is not just the domain of hobby blogs and small online entities, we are spotlighting international news giant, CNN as a WordPress user. CNN actually has a constellation of WordPress blogs covering a wide variety of topics from the news giant’s... Read→
In the first part of this series, we explained the importance and advantages of using Tags in WordPress posts. We then followed up with how to track down and correct tagless posts on your blog. In this last installment, we’ll take a look at a plugin designed to help high volume publishers... Read→
Brand New Day caught my eye not because of any “gee wow” features or gimmicks but because of its light, whimsical and fun approach to theming WordPress. Pages are open and airy helping visitors with readability and orientation. Brand New Day is not without its (pleasant) surprises under... Read→
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In this Plugin Picks we look at new security plugins. While WordPress takes security very seriously (making constant improvements, monitoring/culling entries in the Repository and notifying WordPress hosts of updates in real time), there are always going to be situations and users that call for special measures. Below are three recently released plugins which expand WordPress’s security features, options and settings. No Soup Plugin: If you want to block certain sections of the internet, companies, countries or specific users, you can specify the different IP addresses or IP blocks and where... Read→
Normally, changing the Category of a Post is as simple as editing and updating the Post in question. But what if we are talking about moving dozen, hundreds or THOUSANDS of Posts? That is a lot of mouse clicking! There is a quicker and easier way. WordPress has a concept known as Default Post Category. If you don’t specific a Category, WordPress will automatically place a new Post in that Category until you tell it otherwise. By default, the basic Category “Uncategorized” is used, but savvy WordPress users will probably already have changed this to their most commonly used (and... Read→
In this Theme View update we feature three free themes specifically for photographers, photo-bloggers or visual artists. These themes put all the emphasis on the images and allow you to showcase your imagery or art, unlike traditional blogs that are typically driven by written content. One the greatest strengths of WordPress is the ability to apply a potentially infinite variety of “Themes” to it. These Themes can radically transform the appearance of WordPress making each install unique, if desired. You aren’t stuck with the handful of designs, but can choose from thousands of free and... Read→
In this Plugin Picks we look at plugins for widgets. Widgets “…add visitor visual and interactivity options and features, such as sidebar widgets for post categories, tag clouds, navigation, search, etc. They were originally designed to provide a simple and easy-to-use way of giving design and structure control of the WordPress Theme to the user in the sidebar, which is now available on properly “widgetized” WordPress Themes to include the header, footer, and elsewhere in the WordPress design and structure.” Below are three plugins which expand WordPress’s already... Read→
Excerpts are short, text only previews of posts that WordPress can use in various places as teasers or introductions. These can be automatically generated or custom tailored when creating a Post. By default these are limited to 55 words, but there is no easy way to increase or decrease this in WordPress settings. With a little modification of your functions.php, you can adjust this number to suit your needs. Open the functions.php in your current theme’s function.php*. In the example below we have increased the Excerpt length to 100 words. // Changing excerpt length function new_excerpt_length($length)... Read→