We are constantly watching for amazing new Wordpress themes that are both free and commercial. One of the places we look for new talent is ThemeForest, a marketplace for all sorts of web themes. When we find something exceptional, we add it to the Pingable collection. Check out the Pingable collection periodically for new, stunning [...]
In this previous post, we talked about ways to install Wordpress. All of them have been eclipsed by this new service in terms of ease and speed. Our friends over at Page.ly take the full Wordpress install and cram it into 2 minutes. Watch the video here.
You’ll pay for the service, but not more than [...]
We all use Google Analytics to track visitors to our Wordpress sites. Right? Not necessarily. There were several services before Analytics was the standard, and even more have popped up in recent years that compete with the big G! Here are some of the best options out there, with a little analysis of our own.
But [...]
With hundreds of thousands of blogs being created every day, yours will take a lot to stand out in the crowd. These tips have been assembled from years of experience navigating the blogosphere. Stick to these 6 principles and you’ve got a pretty decent chance of making it.
1. Use a custom design
This is [...]
Wordpress is one of the simplest, fastest and easiest tools for blogging. It is open source software developed originally by a god, I mean guy named Matt Mullenweg. With the advent of Wordpress, Mullenweg single-handedly changed the face of the web. Ok, so he didn’t do it alone, he had lots of [...]
This question was asked in the Wordpress forum here. Since nobody had answered Michael at press time, I thought it might be helpful to find the answer and publish it here.
Solution:
Option 1) Use robots.txt to prohibit search engines form indexing a page. Simply add this to your robots.txt file. If you don’t have a robots.txt [...]
Have you noticed the dramatic increase in “list” posts? They often have title like “10 best free magazine style Wordpress themes” and “10 best social media plugins”. We, too, enjoy a list here and there. We thought it would be fun (and funny) to come up with our own top 10 list of lists.
10 Unusual [...]
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 posts, [...]
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 comments if there are none.
<?php comments_number(‘zero’, ’1 Comment’, ’more’, ’number’); ?>
Insert [...]
These theme creators stand above the rest in terms of aesthetics, web standards, functionality and creativity. There are over 19,000,000 results for “premium wordpress themes” on Google. Wouldn’t it be nice to rely on a handful of providers? In no particular order, here are some of our favorites:
Woo Themes
PremiumWP
Studio Press
Theme Forest (a marketplace site with [...]
