This month’s featured WordPress theme is Glassical, once again brought to you by Smashing Magazine.
Category Archives: WordPress
WP Plugins: The WordPress App Store
Nov 13Collis Ta’eed, of Envato fame, posted an interesting link to Twitter recently. A new website called WP Plugins that is trying to be “The WordPress App Store.” What exactly are they doing? They’ve set up a site reminiscent of the WordPress.org plugin repository, but…
WordPress.org Crowdsources Plugin Compatibility
Nov 2Does that plugin work with the latest version of WordPress? It’s hard to be sure until you install it. After all, a plugin may work perfectly fine across over several versions of WordPress, but the author might have been too busy (or indifferent) to…
SubHeading Plugin for WordPress
Oct 21Have you ever wished for an easy way to add a smaller secondary title, a subheading, under your blog posts’ main titles? That’s exactly what the SubHeading plugin does. It adds a subheading field to the Write screen in the WordPress Admin, and a…
WordPress’s WPDB Class
Oct 19WordPress has a class, $wpdb, that contains several useful functions for manipulating the database. (The $wpdb object is a global variable that WordPress automatically creates.) This is used throughout the core, and by plugin and theme developers to easily run custom MySQL operations. It…
Beyond Super Cache: W3 Total Cache
Oct 15Donncha O Caoimh’s WP Super Cache plugin has become very popular in the WordPress community, especially with bloggers with medium-traffic blogs on shared hosting plans. But what if you’re running on your own server, be it VPS, dedicated, or something else along those lines?…
Support Freeware Developers With #DonateFriday
Oct 8If you’ve been using Twitter for any length of time, you’ve likely run into the phenomenon known as “Follow Friday,” where people tweet a list of users worth following, along with a #followfriday hashtag. In the past few months something new and interesting started…
Programmatically Checking if a WordPress Plugin is Installed
Oct 7When writing a WordPress plugin, it can sometimes be helpful to tell if another plugin is active or not, whether to prevent conflicts or to extend another plugin that you require as a dependency. Fortunately, there’s a conditional function built into WordPress for just…
Poll: Have You Ever Bought a Premium Theme?
Sep 18Here’s an interesting question: Have you ever paid for a WordPress theme? Be it Thesis or a more traditional “design-oriented” theme, have you ever paid for a pre-made theme, rather than making one yourself, hiring someone to do it for you, or simply downloading…
WordPress Theme of the Month: Visiting Card
Sep 14Famous designer TimVanDamme designed his mini site and everyone praised it a lot for unique, beautiful concept. Usually it happens when you are really active on social media sites, you blog less. And his design was perfect solution for those who have a domain…
