This post is the start of an ongoing series entitled “50 Days to a Better WordPress Blog”. Over the next 50 days, Mitch will be providing small snippits of code, plugins, and things you can do to make your blog more attractive, attain new readers, and keep old ones coming back time and time again. To kick things off in this series, I wanted…
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Mitch Canter getting ready to speak (credit Dave Delaney)"][/caption] Yesterday downtown Nashville was invaded by 600+ of the brightest and best geeks in town as the Cadillac Ranch opened its doors for the third annual PodCampNashville. People turned out in droves to hear speakers talk on creativity, development, design, marketing, public relations, and all other manner of speaking sessions. …
I love helping people out with WordPress. Sure, I don’t use the official channels like the forums or stack exchange, but I love helping out people on Twitter. I do lurk on the aforementioned services, though, and unfortunately have noticed that there’s a recurring trend that pops up from time to time that really bothers me. A new community member, or someone looking for…
WordPress 3.1, codename “Reinhardt”, released today to much fanfare and rejoicing to all. But what’s so special about the new version? Look no further: Internal Linking One of the best new features of 3.1 – this brings Internal Linking to the forefront, allowing you to quickly link to old posts, pages, or other content types. Admin Bar Also super important – this adds a…
One of the best new features of 3.1 – this brings Internal Linking to the forefront, allowing you to quickly link to old posts, pages, or other content types. Admin Bar Also super important – this adds a bar to any logged in user that has commonly used functions or actions within easy reach – I love the fact that I can edit the…
I love search forms. But sometimes, designs call for forms to be placed in a tight space to save room for other elements or where buttons may look out of place. If that’s the case, then you can add a special box that will allow users to search with the enter key (or the Done key on the iPhone). Here’s the code: <form method="get"…
I’m exhausted after DNow weekend (6 middle schoolers staying at my house over the weekend) but had loads of fun. Now that it’s past, it’s time to switch back to WordPress mode and pack my stuff. Wednesday evening I’ll be in Atlanta, GA talking to all the awesome people at the WordPress User’s Group about WordPress. You should come. http://www.meetup.com/wordpress-atlanta/events/15851994/
One of the most versitile tags in my arsenal that WordPress gives me is a fun little tag called <?php bloginfo(); ?>. By itself, it’s not much fun, but when you add in a variable, it can tell you anything you need to know about your blog. Like what, you ask? name description admin_email url wpurl stylesheet_directory stylesheet_url template_directory template_url atom_url rss_url pingback_url rdf_url…
For years WordPress has been touted as the number one blogging platform. And without mistake – it is. But as we creep closer to WordPress 3.1 it’s nice to take a step back and see just how far its’ come. From winning the CMS Hall of Fame Award to the multiple thousands of plugins that extend its functionality, the WordPress core has made the…
OK – so I’ve tallied up the results from Tuesday and came up with some really interesting results. So, I’m going to do something a little fun. Here are your favorite plugins as determined by the comments, my favorite plugins, and the top 5 plugins from the WordPress repository; let’s see how they match up (plugins aren’t in any order – just the top…