Category: Wordpress

WordPress links of the week (March 10, 2014): Q&A plugins, Tab Plugins, HTML5 Galleries…

News, plugins tips, tutorials and more from the world of WordPress that I found interesting and/or useful: The Top 6 Question and Answer Plugins (wpmudev) 7 Terrific Free WordPress Tab Plugins (wpmudev) Tabs allow you to break up a lot of information and put it into one small space. Widget Customizer Officially Merged Into Core for WordPress 3.9 (wptavern) Widget editing with live previews...

WordPress links of the week (March 2, 2014): InstantWP, Lazy Load plugins, Hotkeys

Quickly Setup A WordPress Testing Environment With InstantWP (WP Tavern) A free tool used to quickly and easily create a WordPress testing environment. It ships with everything you need to get a local install of WordPress up and running. Apache, PHP, MySQL, and WordPress 3.6 are prepackaged. 6 Lazy Load Plugins to Make Your WordPress Site Faster (wpmudev) Lazy loading forces...

Password Protect a Whole WordPress Site

When you are developing a WordPress site I recommend doing it on your own machine, using WAMP/MAMP/LAMP. It is just simpler and faster to do it that way. However if you want the client to be able to preview the site (and you don’t want them to come to where your computer is) it needs to be on the internet....

WordPress shortcuts

See below the shortcuts that can make your writing in WordPress faster. You can see them too by clicking the Help icon above your WordPress’s textbox and then the Hotkeys tab. I recommend checking the second and third table, becase that’s where the real gems are. (via WooThemes’ How to Save Time When Writing in WordPress). Writing at Full Speed Rather...

Drupal/WordPress/Librarian Job: Analyst/Programmer, CSU San Marcos Library

Under the direction of the Coordinator for Library Technology and Systems and the general supervision of the Associate Dean, the incumbent will provide programming support for Library applications and systems. The incumbent will work closely with user departments to create technical application and system solutions to a wide variety of standard and non-standard functional problems. These applications and systems include...

Pulling the title and/or content of WordPress posts into each other

Sometimes you just have grab the title or the body of one or more WordPress posts into another one. Instead of just copy pasting the content it had to be live; i.e. changing the original post had to change the one where it was pulled into. This is what I had to do yesterday. I could have built a custom...

2013 San Francisco Wordcamp – Day 1

I signed up for the 2013 San Francisco Wordcamp (an annual conference on WordPresss) months ago and finally its day arrived. It arrived a bit early for me as I woke up at 3 AM, due to jet-lag. Nevertheless I am proud to say that I not just attended but also paid attention to seven sessions. For my notes and/or their...

Drupal/WordPress position in Johnson County Library (Kansas)

A full time, Drupal and WordPress related position in the Johnson County Library (Kansas) opened up: Web Content Developer The Web Content Developer has primary responsibility for writing, creating, re-packaging and managing content for the Library’s website; coordinating social networking and related on-line community collaborations; and analyzing library and community information needs to plan for short and long-term site development....

WordPress Plugins for SEO: Better WordPress Minify, Schema Creator, Better Internal Link Search, Allow HTML in Category Descriptions

Search Engine Journal pulled together a basic SEO article for WordPress sites. I was familiar with most of what they recommended, but still found four tools that were new to me: Better WordPress Minify: Allows you to minify your CSS and JS files for faster page loading for visitors. Schema Creator by Raven: Provides an easy to use form to embed properly...

My take on SEJ's Top 10 WordPress Plugins

Chris Cree wrote up for Search Engine Journal a list of the Top 10 WordPress Plugins for 2012 . I always look at such list with an eye of what can I use  or learn from it. This was a rather mixed bag. I will start using these: W3 Total Cache – making your website load more quickly Cookies for Comments – can stop spam...