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What’s New in WordPress 3.4

From Daniel Pataki
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 ...

How To Customize The WordPress Admin Easily

From Aurélien Denis
May 17th, 2012
61 Comments

In this article, we take a break from some of the more advanced ways to customize WordPress, and share some super-easy customization techniques for the WordPress Admin area. If you’re just getting started with WordPress, or have been running with default functionality for a while and now want to dig in ...

Random Redirection In WordPress

From Goce Mitevski
April 19th, 2012
23 Comments

If you run an online magazine, most of your readers will never go through your archive, even if you design a neat archive page. It’s not you; it’s just that going through archives is not very popular these days. So, how do you actually make readers dig in without forcing ...

Smashing Special: What’s Going On In The WordPress Economy? – Part 2

From Siobhan McKeown
April 12th, 2012
20 Comments

In a post on her blog last year, WordPress designer, business woman and author Lisa Sabin Wilson, talked about how thankful she is to be part of the WordPress economy. It’s an economy that thousands of people, the world over, are benefiting from (including me!). It is an economy built ...

A Process For Professional WordPress Development

From Tom McFarlin
March 8th, 2012
16 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 ...

Inside WordPress Actions And Filters

From Gennady Kovshenin
February 16th, 2012
6 Comments

Gone are the days when WordPress developers, wanting to extend the functionality, had to alter and hack the WordPress core source code directly, resulting in headaches when upgrading and sharing modifications. When WordPress 1.2 rolled out back in 2004 a new plugin architecture was introduced; an architecture that is now ...

How To Use Custom Post Types To Organize Online Marketing Campaigns

From Joshua Dodson
February 3rd, 2012
32 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 ...

A Comprehensive Checklist To Creating The Perfect WordPress Website

From Danny Cooper
December 14th, 2011
36 Comments

There is no doubt that WordPress is the best content management system (CMS) for your website. Sure, countless CMS’ are available, ranging from open-source to paid, and you’ll hear evangelists on all sides swearing that their choice is the best. But Drupal, Joomla or any other CMS doesn’t hold a ...

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