WordPress
Web Developer Tools Round Up
I recently had to wipe a computer and get it up from scratch. In the process I realized that there are a series of tools I can not live without. This process also helped me realize how many tools I rely on and make a web developer’s life so much easier. Here is the run [...]
This is Why I Will Not Be Adding BlogRush to Code and Coffee…
There has been a lot of press lately around the new BlogRush service, which is by no means a new idea. It basically is your typical social networking pyramid scheme service. You have a little widget that you put in your website’s sidebar, that syndicates stories from other blogs in your related category. The more [...]
Tips For Updating WordPress
WordPress has made it fairly simple to update to a new version, but there are some little quirks that come along with it. Here are a couple of tips I have implemented over the years for a smooth upgrade path.
Your Do Not Need To Be The First:
Unless you are doing a review or [...]
How To: Setup FeedBurner’s MyBrand Service
With Google’s recent purchase of FeedBurner all pay services from FeedBurner are now free. One of those services is FeedBurner MyBrand, a great service that allows you to complete mask FeedBurner by redirecting a domain or subdomain to your feeds on FeedBurner.
One thing I noticed off the bat with this service, is MyBrand works for [...]
WordPress Plug-in of The Day: Ultimate GA
If you use Google Analytics, you should take advantage of it to the fullest potential. With Wordpress a great plug-in called Ultimate GA. Ultimate GA makes it easy to do work with Google Analytics, it automatically adds the necessary code to the bottom of your template in the footer. My favorite feature is the ability [...]
The Best WordPress Theme Resource Website
I have been asked many of times where the best place to find WordPress themes is. Over time the answer to this question has varied, but recently I have been hooked on once source: WP Themes Free. This site is very well designed and easy to navigate. It includes the standard features of a [...]
How To Remove the Nofollow Tag From WordPress Comments
Mitchell Harper recently posted an interesting article on the nofollow link in blog comments. If you are not familiar with the nofollow tag, it tells search engines not to count the link back the the users site which in turn increase page rank and all that fun stuff. So your visitors are leaving a comment, [...]
A Better Way To Add Syntax Highlighting to WordPress
There are many ways to add syntax highlighting to WordPress, and I have tried a good portion of . Most all of the plug ins available will give you good results, some are easier to setup than others. Before recently I used Dean’s Code Highlighter which is based off of the Geshi Syntax Highlighting project. [...]
How to Optimize Your Wordpress Themes: Part Two
Yesterday I wrote about How To Optimize Your Wordpress Themes, in reviewing there are a lot of functions in themes that print out data dynamically while that data may not change that often so it doesn’t need to be dynamic. In a further look on decreasing page load times, and reducing bandwidth with Wordpress and [...]
How to Optimize Your Wordpress Themes
WordPress is well written, there is not doubt about it. However, on the other side of things WordPress ca be bogged down with unnecessary function calls in your WordPress themes. WordPress was written to be completely dynamic, meaning you can plug-ins and themes adapt to the settings you have, let’s say you blog title. This [...]
