Things that make wordpress so powerful are: plugins and themes. If you find the right themes and you install the right plugins you can turn your wordpress site in a great website. A great debate among web developers is either to use wordpress, other CMS or to make something custom. Few years ago i was […]
You are familiar with the wordpress Widgets section. You can drag and drop things to your sidebar: recent posts, latest posts. It is a good wordpress feature. What about if you want to edit stuff on other locations of your website directly from the admin panel ? For example a portion of your header or […]
Last week i had a client who liked a child theme for genesis, provided by studiopress and i had to work with genesis theme framework. Now i want to share with you how it was to work with genesis and where is good at. My first impression was that it was somewhat built for wordpress […]
It is impossible to not notice that on many blogs some commentators have a photo and others don’t. You may think that the respective authors have users registered on that blog. That is not true, the current version of wordpress don’t support author photo. They have photos on their comments because they use gravatar service. […]
When a plugin that you installed has an upgrade available, wordpress will notice you by adding a red small circle near the Plugins admin menu item. When you browse installed plugins you will see a link to upgrade under each plugin that has an upgrade available. If you go away for a week, to holiday […]
There are a lot of things that can be changed in WordPress from the administration panel: themes, plugins, content, links, widgets to appear on sidebar, and so on. Wordpress has also the options to edit plugins and themes directly, by editing the template or plugin files. But this feature is probably used very rarely because […]
I’ve seen many people that ignore tags on blogs. Tags are used to describe what the post or page is about. WordPress creates a page for every tag you use, when an user goes to a tag page he will see all articles that contain that tag. It is something like keywords. Even if you […]
The wordpress editor is good. You have basic things that you use 99% of times, you can upload images, embed media, almost everything. It is probably the best i have ever used. Well, but i’m still unhappy with it, why ? Because it auto format the text and removes any <br> or empty divs from […]
“A tag cloud or word cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of user-generated tags, or simply the word content of a site, typically used to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are normally listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size or color. […]
This is not a technical issue, it is a funny one. If you write an article about wordpress on a wordpress based blog you will see that when you run spell checker, al words “wordpress” will be marked as errors. Who matters ? Well, i think this is not a problem for wordpress but it […]