Plugin Monday: Protect Your WordPress Website
The vulnerability from old version of the “Tim Thumb” image resizing script is still lingering out there in the WordPress world. In case you missed that hot drama, you can read more about it from Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Automattic and creator of WordPress, and also at WP-Candy. Sadly, there are still lots of ...
Read MoreMake Your Own Louis-CK-Style Video Distribution Site
Louis CK is probably the best standup performing today—and I say that as podcast-listening, special-re-watching, club-attending, die-hard fan of standup comedy. But CK is more than a comedian, he’s a director, writer, and producer (who edits his own show on his MacBook Pro) and recently he made big waves with both comedy nerds and tech nerds (I am ...
Read MorePlugin Monday: Sidekick & Relevanssi
Here are two quick ways to enhance WordPress: SideKick Make navigating the backend of WordPress more management with this little plugin by Dimas Begunoff. Sidekick allows you to collapse any element that may have sub-items, like pages and menu items. This is especially for a site with many layers of pages or menu items. It make ...
Read MoreVideo of BlogCon 2011
Here’s the video taken of my presentation from BlogCon 2011. This is best viewed alongside my previous post, “Pimping WordPress,” which contains the slideshow and all the links referred to in the presentation.
Read MoreMore Resources for WordPress Blogs
Yesterday I shared a lot of tips, plugins, services, themes, and reading assignments with the audience at BlogCon 2011 in Denver. Here are some additional materials I wanted to include in my presentation and initial blog post, but just couldn’t quite squeeze in. More WordPress Plugins If you can’t install NGINX, APC, and Memcached on your server, try W3 ...
Read MoreBlogCon 2011: Pimping WordPress
WordPress is without a doubt the best blogging platform available today. Though it has a bit of a learning curve compared to some hosted services like Blogger or TypePad, WordPress gives you a much greater amount of control, it allows you to truly own your content, and it has a library of off-the-shelf designs and ...
Read MoreNextGov: Too Many Options a “Downside” to Open-Source
In a recent NextGov post, Joseph Marks interviews Commerce Department New Media Director Mike Kruger, whose claims contain two falsehoods and one instance of trying to turn a feature into a flaw: “Drupal is free but it’s free like a puppy is free,” he said, noting ongoing maintenance and upkeep costs. The downside to an open source CMS ...
Read MoreiA³ Template for WordPress
My previous post was on the subject of the mobile web vs. developing an app for Android or iPhone. Information Architects, a really cool design firm, has developed iA³, a very clean, very well laid out, and incredibly well-coded theme for WordPress that just so happens to work perfectly with the two most prominent smart ...
Read More7 Great Commercial WordPress Theme Designers
WordPress’s power lies in its modularity. A new function is as easy as activating a plugin—but that’s the steak, not the sizzle. The real fun is found in themes, the pre-packaged designs for WordPress that make changing the design of your entire site into a point-and-click process that can be finished in mere minutes. For ...
Read MorePlugin Monday: Please Update Total Social Followers!
photo credit: billaday When I was building this site with Jerry Brito about a year ago, we were hoping to drop the total ReadyMadeWeb follower count from all platforms—Facebook, Twitter, Feedburner, and Mailchimp—into the little blurb you see at the top of the right sidebar. This can be done through a bit of PHP and ...
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