The Future of WordPress?
The final of our community series, slightly later than planned asks twenty one of the WordPress community what they think the future of WordPress should be. Again, in no particular order, here are the responses.
10 Practical WordPress Security Tips
Search Google and just about every article you come along will tell you that in order to have a secure blog, you need X amount of plugins. I disagree. I use none yet I’m satisfied I have a reasonable level of security. I use a number of techniques to keep the site safe, which I’ll discuss over the course of the post.
10 More Tips To Improve Your Theme
We’ll look ways to cleverly improve your WordPress theme not just from the front end but also in the backend with some rather lovely advanced features.
Move Your wp-content Area
Why would you want to do this? It looks just that bit nicer to have your images uploaded to /media/ than /wp-content/. In this post we’ll learn how to tell WordPress to upload images and other media to /media/.
WordPress Wins CMS Award!
WordPress has been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. This is a landmark for WordPress, as it is the first time WordPress won this award.
The Difference Between is_singular() and is_single()
Did you know about the conditional tag, is_singular()? The is_singular() tag enables you to target single-view pages, regular page pages, and attachment pages all in one fell swoop.
You Don’t Need Any Plugins to Stop Comment Spam
WordPress is well-equipped to handle the job all by itself. Plugins may provide additional anti-spam functionality, but they are by no means essential to running a spam-free site.
How to Secure Your New WordPress Installation
One of the best ways to ensure strong security for your WordPress-powered site is to secure its foundations during the installation process. Of course these techniques can be implemented at any point during the life of your site.
10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9
WordPress 2.9 is just around the corner. This release is a plugin developers release with lots of new APIs and abstraction. However, there are significant additions for theme designers and users as well.
How to manage multiple blogs efficiently
A question that many people keep asking me is “Why do you have so many different blogs, and how can you manage them?” Althout it can seems to be pretty hard, managing 4 or 5 blogs is far from being impossible, and it also have lots of good points.
How to write a great blog post title
The title is an extremely important element of a blog post: It describe your article and it also add a lot of SEO value to your posts. The title is also what people will see in Search Engine Results Pages as well as in Social Bookmarking sites and Twitter.
How to have 1000+ RSS suscribers in less than two months
You’ll learn in details what I did to get 1000+ RSS readers in less than two months, and more than 6000 in a year.
The importance and benefits of a fancy blog design
Research on 4 reasons why a great design is important for your blog.
10 tips to be an efficient guest blogger
Being a guest blogger is definitely something that helped me to build a strong readership on my blogs as well as to gain an online reputation. Let’s see how, in 10 easy points, you can be a great guest blogger.