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I remember me those days that seochat.com was a great resource for industrie news. :(
Working on a new theme for the next Digging into WordPress book update, I found myself really getting into the whole “widgetizing” thing. Widgets enable non-technical users to customize your theme according to their specific layout needs, and with so many different widgets available, the possibilities are endless. You may have thought about widgets as something you do in the sidebar, but there is no reason to stop there. You can widgetize just about every part of your theme. In this post, we’ll show you how to do widgetize your theme in two easy steps. Once we get the basics down, we’ll dig into some sweet tips and tricks.
Great information, next I like to know how to create widgets in Wordpress plugins
There are so many things that you can customize in WordPress, but one of the things that does not get a lot of attention is custom login page designs. WordPress is being used as a membership site, or site where user registration is allowed. In those cases it is wise for businesses to brand the login page with their logo and other aspects to give it a unique touch that it deserves. In this article we will be showing you how you can create a custom login page design in WordPress as well as showcasing some of the best WordPress login page designs.
Yeah the default login page is very ugly, I think the best would be a lightbox instead of a separate page
In this tutorial, we will be using WordPress and Feedburner with a few plugins to create a simple Email Newsletter Service for your WordPress blog. You can track the performance of your newsletter by checking how many subscribers you have, how many clicks each link gets and much more.
Great idea if your budget is very low (or equal zero) or if you like to publish the news on your own server. I will try this later for sure!
WebFaction has prepared a screencast to get you up and running with WordPress quickly.
Screencast Resources¶
In the screencast, we mentioned some useful resources. Here’s a handy list of hyperlinks from the screencast:
- [0:28] WordPress homepage
- [4:13] Pastebin
- [4:13] WebFaction User Guide > Databases
- [6:38] WordPress > Extend
- [6:43] Webfaction Forum
Webfaction is a great hosting partner for your Wordpress site. Check this video to get more information about how-to host and optimize your Wordpress site.
Just try webfaction.com the offer a 60 days money back guarantee.
The expression of community has changed considerably since the emergence of social media technologies, but its basic foundation — the notion of individuals exchanging information, ideas, and opinions — remains firmly intact. Today, one of the most widely-used tools in developing these types of exchanges online is WordPressWordPress, the popular blogging and publishing platform. Part of its appeal is the ease with which users can build advanced functionality into their sites with plugins. If you’re interested in building a community around your site, there are plenty of third-party add-ons that can help create one.
Great article about wordpress plugins for your community. I like these articles because they showcase plugins I never looked before.
This time I found Clicky, some great real time statistics which I will try for sure
What data does a 404 error page provide?
A lot of people seem to think that a 404 page is a dead end street. It's not, there's a whole lot of data that can help you find the content your visitor was looking for. Let's start with the URL: it contains something very useful. All the text that's there after the slash of your domain should be pointing you to what it is the person was looking for.
Great and detailed tutorial on how-to create better 404 pages for wordpress
I like Wordpress a lot, but showing some code snippets in your code tutorial is sometimes a hard job. This blog show some solutions to make the developer's work much easier. There is one plugin missing on his list: WP-Syntax
The truth is that there are lots and lots of hosts that are still on PHP 4. There are still lots and lots of lines of PHP code that make use of PHP4-level features (see Wordpress and Drupal for examples). My complaint is that PHP 4 has been officially unsupported for the last year now, and PHP 5 has been out for over five years. Five years! That’s a long time to wait to take advantage of new features in the language.
Sadly, developing for PHP 4 backwards compatibility is something that companies and individuals are still doing. Wordpress released a new Widget API in version 2.8 that relies on the old-style PHP 4 constructor. Apparently, for Wordpress and many other developers, wide adoption is more important than language improvements.
Changing your coding style is a long process :( Sure my coding style is these days much more PHP5 than a few years ago but I'm still in progress to write powerful OOP based classes for php5 or php6.
At least most hosting provider offering now php5 enabled plans.
Wordpress and PHP4
Yeah really bad I see even in new code parts a lot of old fashioned coding styles :(
I think that some people still provide code written for PHP4
If you take a little time and effort securing your WordPress blog now, you could save yourself a hell of a lot of time, money and worry later. Securing your blog takes minutes, but fixing a hacked WordPress blog will take you ages. Simply follow the 5 quick steps below, and you could have a hack-proof secure WordPress blog, in no time at all.
1. Use the latest WordPress version
Make sure your WordPress blog is updated to the latest version – WordPress 2.8.4.
The last weeks people posted articles about the recent wordpress worm. This article is a great guide to keep you wordpress blog secure. Most of the tips are very common, but mostly ignored. For example do you remove all unused plugins and themes? Just imagine what "unsafe" code could be used inside some themes functions.php file...
