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Consolidating Twitter Lists for WordPress

Consolidating Twitter Lists for WordPress

I had three or four lists of WordPress folks on Twitter. After much neglect and pretty much ignoring the lists, I decided to consolidate all WordPress folks into one list. This is a list that contains WordPress Core coders, WordPress developers, Theme makers, WordPress service and support providers, WordPress Designers and other similar groups. You [...]

Recent Updates to WordPress

Hi Folks, don’t forget to update your WordPress sites. WordPress 3.1 is out and ready to go. As usual, after a major WordPress update, you’ll find tons of plugins get a new version as well.

WordPress — get_bookmarks VS wp_list_bookmarks

Recently I decided to replace a small piece of content on my about page where I listed all the links to the different profiles I have throughout the internet. Sites like Flickr, Delicious, Twitter, StumbleUpon. I got pretty tired of going into the code of the post and replacing the links whenever they changed or [...]

WordPress 3.1, closer to full custom post types in the UI.

WordPress 3.1 is supposed to be out soon, as usual there are many fixes coming out and I think they’re mostly improvements to the UI. One of them is this new thing called Post Formats. I think it is in fact one step closer to providing users with a custom-post-types interface without having to use [...]

Adding a social media icon box anywhere on your Blog.

If you look in my about page, you’ll see a little box of icons representing my presence online. Each icon takes you to the profile for that particular social network. I’ve been asked how to do this before so I’ll show you how I did it. There are several ways to do it of course, [...]

Write in Word, publish with WordPress

Microsoft Word and WordPress As much as I discourage the use of Microsoft Word, I know its widely used as the preferred method of writing for some people. Be it for a letter, a resume, or even in some cases, a blog post. Some people use Word to write their blogposts, then copy and paste [...]

Featured Plugin: Pre-Publish Reminders

There’s always a list of stuff you do before you post to your blog. Whether you realize it or not, there are a number of things that must be done before you hit that Publish button on your next blog post. For example, did you…

Recommended Hosts for self hosted WordPress

I’m often asked: What host should I buy for my new WordPress website? That’s a tough question, and one that many people will answer right away with their first choice for hosting. But you really should ask yourself… really, is anyone else’s opinion of a host the most important thing you need before making a [...]