I recently real­ized that Google auto­mat­i­cally adds the_time() or the_date() out­put into the begin­ning of my descrip­tions on their SERP’s.

For exam­ple, instead of my nor­mal meta descrip­tion being used, I see this in front of all my descrip­tions on a Google search results page:

Aug 13, 2010 …

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With Word­Press 3.0’s new post type and cus­tom tax­on­omy addi­tions, a pow­er­ful user-friendly CMS is far eas­ier to achieve. I’m work­ing on a few projects right now that uti­lize post types to and thought it would be help­ful to post a few tricks I’ve picked up along the way. Con­tinue Reading…

Don’t get me wrong, out of the box the Word­Press admin kick’s ass. How­ever, when you begin to add advanced con­tent man­age­ment to the mix things can quickly lose clar­ity. I spend a few hours on every Word­Press CMS setup cus­tomiz­ing the back­end to make things eas­ier for my clients. I firmly believe that the eas­ier a man­age­ment sys­tem is to use directly affects the amount of train­ing time needed. It also effects the amount of time cus­tomers will spend scratch­ing their heads in frus­tra­tion. Con­tinue Reading…

Recently I needed to develop a diag­o­nal menu, which at first glimpse seemed com­pletely do-able. Once I dug deeper into it, I real­ized that it was actu­ally quite dif­fi­cult to build. Impa­tient? Jump straight to the demo / sam­ple source code.

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Due to pop­u­lar demand, I’ve added another list of pre­mier Word­Press CMS plu­g­ins for use specif­i­cally those trar­geted at tap­ping into the new 3.0 fea­tures we’re all so excited about. That’s right, I’m talk­ing built-in post types, the sliced bread for all you Word­Press CMS gurus.

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To help folks stay up to date with some of the lat­est and great­est CMS plu­g­ins I’ve decided to fea­ture new, up and com­ing Word­Press plu­g­ins on this post. Because these lists will be posted fre­quently, I don’t have time to review every plu­gin indi­vid­u­ally. I sug­gest using your judge­ment based on the repos­i­tory feed­back & rat­ing before choos­ing any of these as a devel­op­ment option in your next project.

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Flut­ter has been a great plu­gin for Word­Press, allow­ing CMS devel­op­ers to lever­age cus­tom post types and write pan­els through an easy to use GUI. Unfor­tu­nately over the past year or so devel­op­ment has slowed down some, and has even forked into other projects.

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