WordPress Daddy » Resources

The Future of WordPress?

Shabu Anower — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:28:19 +0000

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. Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design BlogThe Future of WordPress? Related posts:How to: List future postsIs [...]

Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

The Future of WordPress?

10 Practical WordPress Security Tips

Shabu Anower — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:24:17 +0000

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.

Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

10 Practical WordPress Security Tips

10 More Tips To Improve Your Theme

Shabu Anower — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:15:07 +0000

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. Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog10 More Tips To Improve Your Theme Related posts:10 Tips to Improve Your WordPress Theme10 Tips to Improve Your [...]

Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

10 More Tips To Improve Your Theme

Move Your wp-content Area

Shabu Anower — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:11:41 +0000

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/. Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design BlogMove Your wp-content Area Related posts:SlideZoomJoomla [...]

Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

Move Your wp-content Area

WordPress Wins CMS Award!

Shabu Anower — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:12:08 +0000

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. Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design BlogWordPress Wins CMS Award! Related posts:All in One Adsense and YPNOfficial [...]

Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

WordPress Wins CMS Award!

The Difference Between is_singular() and is_single()

Shabu Anower — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:03:05 +0000

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. Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design BlogThe Difference Between is_singular() and is_single() Related posts:Top 10How to check if a page template is activePlugin [...]

Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

The Difference Between is_singular() and is_single()

You Don’t Need Any Plugins to Stop Comment Spam

Shabu Anower — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:57:25 +0000

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. Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design BlogYou Don’t Need Any Plugins to Stop Comment Spam Related posts:WP-SpamFree Anti-SpamMath Comment Spam ProtectionTop 10 WordPress [...]

Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

You Don’t Need Any Plugins to Stop Comment Spam

How to Secure Your New WordPress Installation

Shabu Anower — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:53:35 +0000

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. Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design BlogHow to Secure Your New WordPress [...]

Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

How to Secure Your New WordPress Installation

10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9

Shabu Anower — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:49:45 +0000

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. Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9 Related posts:Expanding Plugins [...]

Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9

How to manage multiple blogs efficiently

Shabu Anower — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:41:15 +0000

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.

Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

How to manage multiple blogs efficiently

How to write a great blog post title

Shabu Anower — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:28:41 +0000

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.

Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

How to write a great blog post title

How to have 1000+ RSS suscribers in less than two months

Shabu Anower — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:35:27 +0000

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. Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design BlogHow to have 1000+ RSS suscribers in less than two months Related posts:System informationAdd to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email ButtonPost Credits

Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

How to have 1000+ RSS suscribers in less than two months

The importance and benefits of a fancy blog design

Shabu Anower — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:34:09 +0000

Research on 4 reasons why a great design is important for your blog. Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design BlogThe importance and benefits of a fancy blog design Related posts:10 Easy Ways to Secure your WordPress BlogTop 10 WordPress Plugins to Promote Your Social Media ProfilesHow to write a great blog [...]

Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

The importance and benefits of a fancy blog design

10 tips to be an efficient guest blogger

Shabu Anower — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:30:54 +0000

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. Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog10 tips to be [...]

Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

10 tips to be an efficient guest blogger

How I made delicious.com front page one week after launching my blog

Shabu Anower — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:29:47 +0000

Last friday, my latest blog post here at Cats Who Blog, entitled “Top 10 WordPress plugins to monetize your blog“, was published on delicious.com and, as you can guess, it brought a lot of traffic to this all new blog. Here is, in details, what happened, and how it happened.

Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

How I made delicious.com front page one week after launching my blog

Using Tags Effectively in WordPress

Shabu Anower — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:51:34 +0000

Tags are a great way of associating the same type of content together, and they’re something that many bloggers use regularly, but using them effectively? That’s what this post will tell you how to do. Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design BlogUsing Tags Effectively in WordPress Related posts:Suggest Tags11 Great Post [...]

Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

Using Tags Effectively in WordPress

5 Brilliant WordPress Articles

Shabu Anower — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:00:39 +0000

5 Brilliant Articles on WordPress hacks, resource and tips. Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog5 Brilliant WordPress Articles Related posts:40+ Most Wanted Wordpress Tricks and Hacks10 Tips to Improve Your WordPress ThemeMost Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes

Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

5 Brilliant WordPress Articles

Say goodbye to pingbacks

Shabu Anower — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:17:19 +0000

When another blog links to yours, WordPress automatically receive a pingback. This is cool because you are notified about it, but pingback don’t really add value to your posts. Considering that fact, what about getting rid of them? Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design BlogSay goodbye to pingbacks Related posts:SociableTNX-WPAutolinks

Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

Say goodbye to pingbacks

WordPress’ Template File Hierarchy Explained

Shabu Anower — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:02:56 +0000

When WordPress loads any page, it looks at the theme files and if there is a file for the specific page that is loading, it uses that. If there isn’t, it will look for the next template file down the hierarchy. This is the WordPress template file hierarchy.

Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

WordPress’ Template File Hierarchy Explained

10 Ways To Improve Your WordPress Blog’s SEO

Shabu Anower — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:49:47 +0000

Some argue that SEO, or search engine optimization is a whole load of tosh, and whilst they may have a point to an extent, there are a couple of easy things you can do that should improve your WordPress blog’s SEO. That said, take everything with a pinch of salt; don’t implement these features and elect to shoot up search rankings.

Resource Sites: Smashing Post | CSS Gallery | CSS Pedia | Design Blog

10 Ways To Improve Your WordPress Blog’s SEO