The term cron comes from a scheduled job manager present on Unix and Unix like operating systems. Basically it allows users to schedule periodic functions. They sit quietly in the background but can trigger powerful features and take a lot of the manual toil off humans managing the system. WordPress has one common automated featured […]
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Anyone who is in charge of Content Management for a site eventually realizes that timing of articles can be just as important as the articles themselves. Casual bloggers go through “feast and famine” stages where they have a flood of posts, then weeks where they have nothing, companies want certain articles released to coordinate with […]
A well chosen and placed photograph can really add impact and meaning to a post or page in WordPress. With the advent and continued growing popularity of the Creative Commons standard back in 2002, there is a wealth of imagery to draw upon for those bloggers that don’t have a media budget or their own […]
Facebook integration for WordPress is one of the most common social network feature requests I see from individuals as well as companies. With so many people remaining logged in to Facebook even when they are browsing other areas of the internet, the ability to leave comments without an additional login is very appealing to many […]
Spotify is the Sweden-based online music service that has transformed the way Europeans listen to their music, particularly on mobile platforms (much to the envy of many Americans). Like many companies, Spotify has harassed the power of WordPress to create their news portal. Custom template styling has allowed them to match the rest of their site […]
Putting content on the web, even in a Content Management System, in the simplest form take the form of a linear page; a series of sentences, paragraphs and other media organized in the order in which they are meant to be read. This allows the reader to skip ahead when it is convenient, but it […]
Absolum is free WordPress template from the designer(s) at Theme 4 Press. This theme is deceptively simple at a glance, but is actually packed with several options and nice touches that aren’t immediately visible in the demo page. Firstly, the innocuous looking masthead is actually an automated slider which cycles through Posts allowing space conscious […]
AJ Clarke over at WP Explorer has recently released a Free theme called Modern Blogger. I had the opportunity to take it for a test ride and I was really impressed. Free themes are very common in the WordPress community, but WP Explorer really raises the bar. “Modern Blogger” features subtle multi-level drop down windows […]
One of the biggest drawbacks of installing a WordPress theme on to a new site or using the Preview feature on WordPress’s Theme Directory is that it is very hard to get a true feel how the theme will handle actual content. Details such as font and formatting behavior, pagination, categories, archives and more may […]
One of the biggest hurdles decision makers have to overcome in understanding just how powerful and versatile WordPress is as a web presence platform is one of perception as merely a “blog” (the other is the word “blog” itself, but that’s a topic for another article). From its humble origins, WordPress has evolved into a […]