Category: WordPress
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WordPress Plugin: WP Lessn
I created a WordPress plugin that automatically creates Lessn short URLs for published posts. Lessn is a free, self-hosted URL shortener, created by Shaun Inman.
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Two Free Starter WordPress Themes
I’ve prepared two of my go-to WordPress themes for immediate release. My hope is that WordPress beginners should find these templates easy to work with as they start to customize their own themes and advanced WordPress developers will find these themes sufficient with which to work.
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Must-Have WordPress Plugin: WP Super Cache
Yes, you should have WP Super Cache installed and working for your self-hosted WordPress site.
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Jay’s WordPress Admin Plugin
I’ve created a WordPress plugin to fix an issue I have with the WordPress Dashboard: the HTML editor is not a monospaced font. I don’t like reading code in 13px Lucida Grande, so I wrote a plugin to add a stylesheet with 12px Monaco.
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Create Your Own WordPress Fail Whale
This page shows up when WordPress cannot connect to your MySQL database. The entire page, complete with head and body, is written into the code, so the good news is we can put whatever we want here.
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Setting Up Your Mac For Local Development Using Coda, WordPress & MAMP
WordPress is not just for blogs. WordPress is a highly sophisticated content management system that you can use to develop and manage your client’s professional websites. Best of all, it’s entirely free. To get started it helps to experiment without the hassle of publishing files to the Internet. With a Mac, you already have the…
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My Favorite WordPress Plugins
The abundance of “Top Ten” Lists of WordPress Plugins helps reinforce those plugins that are extremely necessary; like the All In One SEO plugin, or the Google XML Sitemaps plugin. However, my most essential plugins are never listed. So, while some of the following may not be as sexy as the Increase Your Traffic By…
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An Interview with Jay Robinson, Web Designer at Fasturtle
Waferbaby.com recently featured a series of interviews called The Setup, which ask the general question: “What do people use to get the job done?” Focusing on designers and developers, the interviews are short, to the point and provide an interesting mix of software, hardware and ideal interaction theories. I thought I’d use the same format…