Posts Tagged ‘Plugins’
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Useful WordPress Tools, Themes And Plugins
- March 22nd, 2012
- 56 Comments
If you’re looking for some great ways to improve your WordPress workflow, read on for a massive collection of free themes, plugins, tools and tutorials. These resources were all linked via the Smashing Magazine Twitter stream, Facebook stream, and other social-media streams around the Web. These awesome resources have now been ...
Read more...Useful Free Admin Plugins For WordPress
- March 15th, 2012
- 8 Comments
The admin area is the heart of any WordPress-powered website. It’s where everything is controlled and where admin, editors, authors and contributors publish content to posts, pages and other custom post types. The default features of WordPress are fine for some website owners, although you may find that certain features ...
Read more...A Process For Professional WordPress Development
- March 8th, 2012
- 14 Comments
Recently, we discussed “How Commercial Plugin Developers Are Using The WordPress Repository.” This article provided a solid explanation of the plugin repository, how to use it, how not to abuse it, and how to leverage it for success, even with premium plugins. Now is a great time to be working as ...
Read more...How To Use Custom Post Types To Organize Online Marketing Campaigns
- February 3rd, 2012
- 31 Comments
Custom post types add a level of flexibility to WordPress that makes this open-source Web development platform more useful on many levels. Whenever I have been faced with a Web-based task, especially one that involves organizing information, the first thing I do is examine WordPress to determine if it can ...
Read more...How Commercial Plugin Developers Are Using The WordPress Repository
- January 13th, 2012
- 22 Comments
A few weeks ago I wrote about how you can put together a great readme.txt for the WordPress plugin directory. In addition to using a WordPress readme as a tool to help out your users, you can use it to promote your commercial products and services. While commercial theme developers are ...
Read more...How To Improve Your WordPress Plugin’s Readme.txt
- November 23rd, 2011
- 23 Comments
If you’re a plugin developer and you just love to write code, then writing a readme.txt file for a plugin in WordPress’ repository might be your idea of hell. When you’ve written all of that lovely code, why must you spend time writing about how to use it? Unfortunately, some plugin ...
Read more...Writing WordPress Guides For The Advanced Beginner
- November 8th, 2011
- 17 Comments
Creating WordPress tutorials is a fantastic way to help build the WordPress community and to increase your Web traffic. That’s no secret. Just Google “wordpress tutorial” and you’ll see hundreds of results. The complete novice will find scores of well-written tutorials clearly demonstrating the basics of the WordPress dashboard and ...
Read more...Create Perfect Emails For Your WordPress Website
- October 25th, 2011
- 28 Comments
Whatever type of website you operate, its success will probably hinge on your interaction with your audience. If executed well, one of the most effective tools can be a simple email. WordPress users are in luck, since WordPress already has easy-to-use and extendable functions to give you a lot of ...
Read more...WordPress Essentials: How To Create A WordPress Plugin
- September 30th, 2011
- 44 Comments
WordPress plugins are PHP scripts that alter your website. The changes could be anything from the simplest tweak in the header to a more drastic makeover (such as changing how log-ins work, triggering emails to be sent, and much more). Whereas themes modify the look of your website, plugins change how ...
Read more...Ten Things Every WordPress Plugin Developer Should Know
- March 8th, 2011
- 82 Comments
Plugins are a major part of why WordPress powers millions of blogs and websites around the world. The ability to extend WordPress to meet just about any need is a powerful motivator for choosing WordPress over other alternatives. Having written several plugins myself, I’ve come to learn many (but certainly ...
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