Posts Tagged ‘Techniques’
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SecurityCommon WordPress Malware Infections
- October 9th, 2012
- 63 Comments
WordPress security is serious business. Exploits of vulnerabilities in WordPress’ architecture have led to mass compromises of servers through cross-site contamination. WordPress’ extensibility increases its vulnerability; plugins and themes house flawed logic, loopholes, Easter eggs, backdoors and a slew of other issues. Firing up your computer to find that you’re ...
Read more...Social NetworkingBuddyPress: One Plugin, Five Communities
- September 26th, 2012
- 13 Comments
BuddyPress is social networking in a box, the loveable plugin that has people around the world getting social. But using BuddyPress isn’t all about waking up one morning and being struck by the amazing idea of creating the next Facebook. BuddyPress is a tool for creating communities. In fact, if ...
Read more...advancement to excellenceHow To Become A Top WordPress Developer
- August 23rd, 2012
- 102 Comments
First, let’s set a few things straight: becoming a top WordPress developer is hard work — very hard work. It’s going to take a lot of time, energy and determination. If you’re looking for an easy checklist or some “fast pass” to the top, you’re going to waste your time. ...
Read more...Performance StudyAdopting A Responsive WordPress Theme Is More Than Install-And-Go
- July 26th, 2012
- 19 Comments
As iOS, Android, and Windows 8 take the Web to smaller screens, designers are adopting techniques to make their websites usable on handheld devices. Responsive Web designs present different formatting and layout to suit the device on which their pages are displayed. Browsers choose the appropriate styles on page load, freeing ...
Read more...Create A WordPress Bookshelf Plugin
- July 24th, 2012
- 13 Comments
This tutorial explains how to create a WordPress bookshelf plugin that displays books on a shelf like Smashing Magazine’s eBook page. Some key WordPress functionality will be showcased throughout the tutorial that could benefit your own project. The article covers how to create post types, shortcodes and meta fields using WordPress’ ...
Read more...Guide To WordPress Coding Standards
- July 19th, 2012
- 12 Comments
Whenever we set code to screen, we must follow some sort of logic. You may well be the only person who understands that logic, but you still make the effort. The reason we follow standards and practices is to adhere to a common logic, so that we find each other’s ...
Read more...Writing Effective Documentation For WordPress End Users
- July 4th, 2012
- 24 Comments
In this article, we’ll look at writing documentation for a WordPress plugin, theme or product. Most of the information can be applied to documentation for other software types, but we’ll look at some WordPress-specific aspects. In my experience, the quality of documentation in WordPress plugins and themes varies widely. From poorly ...
Read more...Performance Optimization With CachingDo-It-Yourself Caching Methods With WordPress
- June 26th, 2012
- 21 Comments
There are different ways to make your website faster: specialized plugins to cache entire rendered HTML pages, plugins to cache all SQL queries and data objects, plugins to minimize JavaScript and CSS files and even some server-side solutions. But even if you use such plugins, using internal caching methods for objects ...
Read more...What’s New in WordPress 3.4
- June 12th, 2012
- 31 Comments
With WordPress 3.4 set to arrive this week, it’s a great time to familiarize ourselves with the new features and additions. The new version of WordPress brings many improvements, including custom backgrounds and headers, a live theme-customizer, revamped XML-RPC, better support for internationalization, and many bug fixes and enhancements. Let’s ...
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