This WordPress plugin comes from WordPress developer Pippin Williamson. It’s an aptly-named plugin called Simple Notices Plugin, which adds a notification system to your WordPress site via custom post types. This can be very useful plugin in keeping your visitors informed of any news on your site like membership promos, site updates, upcoming features, etc. [...]
Front-end developer Erin Seale has brilliantly created a dynamic sidebar for WordPress, whose content options change depending on the page the user is viewing. To quote Erin on her the idea behind the dynamic sidebar, “Let’s say you have a Blog, an ‘About’ section, and your homepage. In the ‘About’ section, you have the obligatory [...]
WordPress 3.0 has allowed users to host multiple independent websites with just one feature called Multisite. It also lets you share settings, content, and code between websites within your network. Kevin Leary has shared some of the hacks he did to perform the aforementioned abilities in one of his articles; one of them involves building [...]
Here’s a very useful snippet from allguru.net that helps reduce spam in WordPress. Blocking spam at the .htaccess level is more efficient and effective than merely using plugins, and you may want to try this out. It’ll help if make a backup copy of your .htaccess file first. Once you’re done, simply paste this code [...]
This new WordPress plugin called Tumblr Importer makes moving your Tumblr blog content to your self-hosted WordPress blog an easy feat. Since Tumblr is known for its multimedia posts, this plugin also keeps your audio, images and video intact. Plugin features: Imports posts, pages and drafts It handles post formats correctly Duplicate checking Media sideloading [...]
If you wish to design your WordPress blog’s appearance by yourself, you can rely on CSS. Here are 6 useful CSS color tools that could help get you started. Color Scheme Designer Color Scheme Designer provides colors in color wheel form. It has different color variations in percentage ratio like mono, tetrad, triad, analogic, accented [...]
This tutorial by Martin Angelov of tutorialzine.com will show you how to create a cool shiny knob control called KnobKnob. Made with jQuery and CSS3, this plugin uses CSS transformations and features jQuery’s new handling method. It will definitely give users a fun and interesying way of interactively selecting a pool of values from a [...]
This is a lightweight and user-friendly jQuery plugin that makes page loading faster. DynamicWP.net PR and editor Eko Setiawan created it exclusively for WordPress’s TwentyTen Theme. Check out this plugin’s demo HERE: This tutorial will teach us how to preload images with jQuery. Step 1: Download the loading image HERE. Step 2: Upload the loading [...]
Enable HTML5 markup on older browsers We all know that HTML5 is the future of web development. The only problem is some people still use older versions of web browsers that don’t support this language yet. So for that, here’s a script that will force those browsers to recognize the new tags introduced by HTML5 [...]
What do you do, when after an exhaustive search for the perfect WordPress theme that you love, all of a sudden you run into an error message saying that your new theme doesn’t support your sidebar widgets? Try these steps to edit the sidebar widgets to fix it! 1. Backup your theme files and folders. [...]
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