Posts Tagged ‘Plugins’
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How To Improve Your WordPress Plugin’s Readme.txt
- November 23rd, 2011
- 50 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
- 19 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
- 40 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
- 45 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
- 89 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 ...
Read more...Lessons Learned From Maintaining a WordPress Plug-In
- July 30th, 2010
- 34 Comments
Recently I released a WordPress plugin for Google Analytics that adds a tracking code and dozens of various pieces of meta data to blogs. Since the release of version 4, I’ve updated it 6 times, to the point where it’s now at version 4.0.6. In this article I would like ...
Read more...15 Useful Twitter Hacks and Plug-Ins For WordPress
- March 4th, 2009
- 95 Comments
Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has grown to create what most people would call a social media revolution. By the very nature of the short messages it hosts, Twitter is a wonderful marketing and promotion tool that no serious blogger can ignore. In this article, we have compiled 15 most ...
Read more...Introducing Tweetbacks Plugin for WordPress
- January 9th, 2009
- 56 Comments
Just yesterday we introduced Twitter Avatars In Comments plugin for WordPress that enables bloggers to have both Twitter and Gravatar avatars in blog comments. We are certainly not going to turn Smashing Magazine into a repository of Twitter plugins for WordPress, but we are confident that it does make sense ...
Read more...Twitter Avatars In Comments WordPress Plugin
- January 8th, 2009
- 179 Comments
Over the last months Twitter has become extremely popular across the Web, with more blogs, magazines and companies using it to communicate with their audience and their customers. Even we started twittering a couple of months ago and have over 3,650 followers now. Please feel free to join us and ...
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