Jonathan Soroko from Wordpress Blue emailed me about his favourite must have plugin. It is called Insights and was developed by Vladimir Prelovac.
The plugin adds a lot of extra options to your post editor including the ability to:
Search your blog for posts, edit them or insert links to them into the current post
Insert Flickr Images
Insert [...]
One of the reasons WordPress is so widely used is because of how versatile it is. It’s perfect for a small website, a magazine style website, photo gallery and of course it is the perfect solution for a blog too.
I came across a new plugin today from Thomas Teisberg called WP Chameleon. It’s a [...]
I am happy to announce that Blog Themes Club is now in the official WordPress Commercial Theme Section.
Before being accepted we had to provide WordPress with a haiku, a strange request but one which we obviously adhered to. Here is our submission:
Themes for everyone,
Functional yet Beautiful,
One Price For Them All
What do you think of it? [...]
WordPress have released 2.8.4 to address a security issue. Seems like hackers could have caused a lot of problems with this.
Yesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a result, the first [...]
To celebrate the end of our launch period (beta), our membership prices have been vastly reduced. Prices will return to our normal rate on 1st August so please make sure you don’t miss out on this fantastic deal.
For the next 3 days membership prices will drop to:
3 months membership – $49 $29 $20
6 months membership [...]
There are several pages on my main blog Blogging Tips that are not listed anywhere on the blog itself. For example, there is a page which appears just after signing up to the newsletter telling the visitor to check their email and another to thank them after they have clicked on the email validation link.
Unfortunately, [...]
WordPress yesterday released version 2.8.1. This release fixes many bugs rather than add any new functionality to WordPress.
Here are some of the major changes :
Certain themes were calling get_categories() in such a way that it would fail in 2.8. 2.8.1 works around this so these themes won’t have to change.
Dashboard memory usage is reduced. [...]
If you are looking for an alternative way to reward commenters instead of the popular ‘Top Commenters’ plugin, you should consider Shaun Andersons newly released Custom Link Love Plugin. The plugin rewards regular commenters with a link to their blog but not those who are just paying a flying visit.
According to Shaun :
Regular commentors [...]
Read moreLike most blogging scripts, WordPress lets you upload images directly via the admin panel to your hosting space, which is incredibly useful.
Though there are some great image hosting sites out there which let you upload images for free, I always prefer to upload images directly to my own hosting area.
This obviously uses up more space [...]
I believe WordPress to be the best blogging platform available by a long way. One of the best features of WordPress is it’s adaptability and this is mainly achieved through the user of plugins.
My favourite plugins are simple, plugins which have no bells and whistles but make WordPress work better and make you wonder why [...]