Community participation creates a sense of belongingness among a site and its core readers. If you empower your readers, they’ll share their successes and experiences with others on your website which will help grow your readership…
Wondering how active a certain user is or how long it’s been since he last logged in? Perhaps you need to monitor when your writers or editors last checked into the site…
I have been looking for some way to add a community news section to a blog of mine, buts its been quite difficult. TDO mini forms is a way to let people submit normal posts but I wanted the news to separate from the main blog…
Not so! Seth Shoultes, Event Espresso developer and recent winner of the Utah Entrepreneur Challenge (with $40,000 prize!) has just teased his new iPhone/Android apps, on ABC news, no less. Check it out: And what does this ticketing app interface with? Event Espresso – a WordPress plugin! How awesome is that?! I did a quick…
Looking for something fun to do during your summer vacation? Why not check out a WordCamp! WordCamps are locally-organized casual conferences of, by, and for WordPress users, developers, and enthusiasts just like you. The focus of a WordCamp is to foster face-to-face connections and collaboration among the local WordPress crowd, but there are usually some out-of-towners …
Getting more subscribers to your site’s newsletter is as important as good SEO. After all, you aren’t writing a good newsletter so that you DON’T get new readers. Your newsletter can play an integral role in establishing you as an expert, building a relationship with your readers…
With the advent of Facebook Comments I reckon we’ll see a lot of sites switching over. Especially since Techcrunch just did, and posted a very interesting reflection on the pros and cons of it. Of course there are already a buch of very promising looking Facebook Comments…
Vectors is a robust and capable community WordPress theme planned and designed for use as a news, blog, industry news, or community theme. Vectors comes equipped with many custom widgets, unique page templates, color schemes, and theme opt…
Watching the tweets coming rolling in yesterday, I discovered that in the excitement of WordPress 3.1′s release, many users forgot some of the basics of upgrading WordPress…
Backing up your WordPress site isn’t simply an option; it’s a vital necessity. Some backup solutions involve mirroring or syncing your site to give you back exactly what you lost…
We all love WordPress. We all love that we can get it for free, get free plugins and themes and generally enjoy the freeness. But there are tools out there that can improve our experience, productivity and interaction with WordPress. This post is dedicated to them, and to all of the lovely things that they …
Does your WordPress site need a solution for managing a complex menu? If your drop-down navigation is getting bogged down with too many pages then it’s high time you discovered UberMenu, an amazingly easy-to-use mega menu creator. UberMenu has created a highly versatile, customizable, and fast plugin that makes mega menus snappy and oh-so-simple to…
Facebook recently announced that they’ve updated page design for organizations, adding in support for iframe tabs. This is good news for WordPress users, because it makes it very easy to embed custom designs that you’re already using on your WordPress pages. In this tutorial we’ll walk you through the process of creating a custom Facebook page …
Have you ever deleted the “Hello Dolly” and “Akismet” plugins only to find them return when you upgrade the WordPress core? The Unwanted Plugins Remover helps you to keep your site lean and will remove Akismet and Hello Dolly upon each core upgrade. You can also extend the list of plugins removed by using a …
Creating your own powerful online directory site has never been easier. Whether you want to set up your own local directory, a network of affiliates or display business listings, you’re going to want to use the WordPress Directory Plugin. It’s packed full of features that make it easy for you to make money from your…
A few weeks back it was thank a plugin developer day. I love those guys. They make me happy. But I love them so much that I end up filling my website with plugins to achieve things that I could achieve with code. Nowadays I love code snippets. They’re handy, like a million times handy…
Graph Paper Press has created some of the coolest free WordPress themes currently available. Their team has just released 3 free theme-enhancing plugins, all of which are simple to use with no coding skills required. GPP About You Widget Add a quick “about” section to your theme with this handy widget. You can include your…
The last of my interviews is with Lisa Sabin-Wilson. Many of you will know Lisa as the author of WordPress for Dummies and BuddyPress for Dummies, as well as the forthcoming WordPress Web Design for Dummies. She is also the founder of E.Webscapes, founder of Allure Themes, and MassivePresser…
Yesterday I posted about how you can build your own business around WordPress. Over the next few days you’ll get to meet a few people who have made that happen. Today it’s Seth Shoultes. Seth is the developer of the Event Espresso WordPress plugin. He only gave up his day job in December so he…
jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library for creating and adding simple, dynamic effects to your content. WordPress users who love jQuery will find that there are hundreds of free tools available in the repository, but you can spend all day sorting through them. We’ve selected 20 high quality, recently-updated plugins that will help you …