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Dusty Anderson is an avid WordPress user and the editor of Pingable.org. Read more
Moving your WordPress site in 2 easy steps
17
Dec

Moving your WordPress site in 2 easy steps

Written by Dusty. Posted in Resources with 2 Comments

This tutorial assumes you know how to install a self-hosted WordPress site.  Let’s say you’ve got a wordpress powered blog that you’d like to transfer.  Here’s how to do it in just a couple quick steps: Log into the dashboard of the old site and under “tools” click “export”.  WordPress will export all of the [...]

We Love WP brings the best original designs
16
Dec

We Love WP brings the best original designs

Written by Dusty. Posted in Showcase, Themes with No Comments

We Love WP is a blog that has been around a while bringing you original and unique wordpress designs.  What they are not is a source for free or commercial wordpress themes, rather a place for design ideas, creative examples and pleasing designs.  Their own design is one of the first showcase themes we ever [...]

5 features we would love to see in WordPress 2.9
15
Dec

5 features we would love to see in WordPress 2.9

Written by Dusty. Posted in Lists, Opinion with No Comments

These are the features we would absolutely love to see in the next stable release of WordPress. Of course, being that this site is dedicated entirely to WordPress, we love the simple blogging platform as-is. But there is always room to grow. Line markers in the theme editor. – Sometimes it’s easier and faster to [...]

Super cool toolbar for your WordPress site
14
Dec

Super cool toolbar for your WordPress site

Written by Dusty. Posted in Plugins, Tools with No Comments

Have you noticed some websites have those toolbars at the bottom of the screen? They stay put as you scroll around and offer you all sorts of conversion tools like twitter buttons, subscribe buttons, search features, etc. See them in action on the top blogs like Web Ecoist, Walyou and The Next Web. This tool [...]

Review of Artisteer theme generator
12
Dec

Review of Artisteer theme generator

Written by Dusty. Posted in Opinion, Reviews, Themes with 10 Comments

We downloaded the free trial version of Artisteer, a WordPress theme generator that also can export Joomla and HTML website themes.  We then dished out $49 to test the full version with all the features enabled.  It had a promising feature list and made some heady claims as to what was possible with this $49 [...]

20 super helpful WordPress template tags
11
Dec

20 super helpful WordPress template tags

Written by Dusty. Posted in Lists, Resources, Themes with 6 Comments

For anyone developing WordPress templates, these tags are the most commonly used and helpful to have handy. Many of these tags include parameter options which can be found in the WordPress Codex or this helpful tool. <?php the_author_nickname(); ?> Insert the author’s nickname. <?php the_category(‘parents=multiple’); ?> Insert the category of a post. <?php comments_number(‘No Comments’, ’one’, ’more’, ’number’); ?> Insert the number of [...]

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