WordPress is quickly becoming one of the most well known open source PHP platforms for content management. Surprising, there is a lack of quality literature out there for professional designers and developers looking to learn more about working with the platform. In my opinion this is because WordPress is a constantly changing beast. Write a…
WordPress has robust login system built in that is often under used because of it’s design restraints. Anyone that create’s an account and edit’s their profile info may be confused when they see the WordPress backend. It would be ideal to have your login, create account, and edit profile screens look like the rest of…
1. Smashing Magazine Smashing Magazine is a website and blog that offers resources and advice to web developers and web designers. It reviews software and web-based tools for web designers and developers, and publishes guides and how-tos on web design and web development. From time to time they offer free fonts, icons, and templates for…
The web agency I work for, Fresh Tilled Soil, has just launched a re-design for Blu Homes that’s built on top of a WordPress CMS. It’s now featured on WeLoveWP.com and has a pretty good rating so far. Pretty much everything you see is being managed by WordPress with the aid of some handy plugins.…
WordPress is well known for it’s blogging capabilities, and it’s not too uncommon to hear of it being used as a CMS. In order to create a truly powerful CMS you need certain features that the standard WordPress install just doesn’t have, and that’s where plugins come in. I’ve been recommending WordPress as a CMS…
Broken links aren’t fun. They can destroy a user experience, especially if they link to an important download or file. Luckily, there’s an easy way for you to keep track of your dead links in WordPress. It’s a plugin called the Broken Link Checker. Broken Link Checker keeps a running list of all the broken…
Justin Tadlock has just released Query Posts Widget for WordPress 2.8+. This widget allows you to add a list of filtered posts to the sidebar (or any widgetized area) of your blog. You can filter these posts by: Tag Category Author Date, Week, Month or Year Custom Field Value This may seem simple, but the…
Today I was working on a project that had a strange bug affecting only Firefox on Windows. For this I needed a way to target just Windows. I managed to use the following snippet of JavaScript to detect the “user agent” or operating system to dynamically add a class to the <body> tag. if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf(“Mac”)!=-1)…
I was recently working on a project that had some issues in Firefox 2.0, but not Firefox 3.0. Generally I would frown on this sort of “browser sniffing” approach, but for this it was a requirement and there seemed to be no way around it. I’ve used jQuery’s $.browser() method to add a class of…
I love the ease of use and rich feature set of the AddThis social media service. However, due to it’s popularity the design has become overused and mundane. I decided to see if I could customize it to match the overall experience of kevinleary.net. The results came out pretty nice in my opinion. I may…
I had a great time tonight speaking at the Boston WordPress Meetup. The hour and half presentation covered WordPress SEO and Marketing, along with general SEO best practices. We also talked about web analytic’s and how they can help you measure your business goals on the web. If you were there, I want to thank…
If your having issues importing a large (more than 20MB) WordPress XML File (WXR) you can fix it by increasing the amount of memory PHP is allowed. Here’s how: Open up your wp-config.php file Add the following line: define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’96M’); The WP_MEMORY_LIMIT option allows you to specify the maximum amount of memory that can be…
I’ll be presenting at this month’s Boston WordPress Meetup. General topics I plan to discuss include: General WordPress Overview Get Found: SEO & SEM For WordPress Power a website, not just a blog: Using WordPress as a CMS Affiliate Marketing and WordPress For a more in depth outline of what will be presented take a…
WordPress is incredibly powerful as a blog platform but can also be used as a CMS (content management system). I’ve often found that because of it’s easy setup it is often overlooked as being inferior to other CMS solutions. With it’s expandability through the use of plugins WordPress has the ability to be even more…