It seems that every day WordPress theme’s are getting more advanced and robust. This is a good thing for the existing developers that know what they are doing in terms of coding, but it puts a lot of new designers and developers in a very… Read More »
Professional WordPress Plugin Development Book Review
On my flight to Prague, I got the chance to read the book Professional WordPress Plugin Development by Brad Williams, Ozh Richard, and Justin Tadlock. After 9 hours of intense reading, all I can say is that I was amazed. This is one of the best resources I have seen to date for plugin developers who want to learn to do things the right way.
How to do Live Blogging in WordPress
Live blogging is rolling textual coverage of ongoing events within a single blog post or channel, very similar to live television or radio. Live blogging is being adapted by a lot of smaller and larger news oriented sites to broadcast live updates from technology conferences,… Read More »
How to Add Multiple Galleries in WordPress Posts and Pages
Want to add multiple image galleries in your WordPress posts and pages? While WordPress handles images beautifully, the default image galleries lack certain features. In this article, we will show you how to add multiple galleries in your WordPress posts, pages and sidebar. Why and… Read More »
How to Prevent Disqus from overriding your WordPress Comment Count
Disqus, a comment platform, tends to go out and change the comments number hook for WordPress. This may end up causing your theme to show the text “View Comments” instead of the actual comment count that you want it to show. The reason why Disqus… Read More »
WordCamp Columbus 2011 – Fun and Learning at the Same Time
This weekend, I (Syed Balkhi) attended WordCamp Columbus 2011. The event was two days long in which the first day was a workshop for small businesses, non-profits, and new bloggers whereas the second day was a traditional WordCamp style presentations. It was a lot of… Read More »
How to Add the Official Twitter Follow Button in WordPress
Twitter is extending its functionalities to the wider world wide web. It all started with the official tweet button, then the Twitter Anywhere Platform , and recently the new official twitter follow button. You are probably wondering what the heck is this twitter follow button?… Read More »
Lucky Winners of our Exhibitor WordPress Theme Giveaway
This past week, we had the honor to run a giveaway for Exhibitor theme by Pro Theme Design. We want to thank Ben and the entire Pro Theme Design team for making this amazing giveaway possible. In our giveaway, we were giving away 5 copies… Read More »
What, Why, and How-To’s of Livefyre for WordPress
In the past two weeks, you probably noticed that we switched our commenting system. We made this crucial decision after attending BlogWorld Expo and WordCamp Raleigh. Thanks to Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy) for suggesting this platform in his presentation at WordCamp Raleigh, and Lewis Howes (@LewisHowes)… Read More »
How to Add Tooltip in Your WordPress Posts and Pages
Tooltips are small hover boxes with information about the item being hovered over. Tooltips appear when the user hovers over an item (without clicking it). Tooltips can be a very handy tool in explaining some items in your posts (i.e funny headings, links etc). In… Read More »