It's a little know fact that since WordPress 2.9 there have been some pretty cool tools available to manipulate images right from the backend. Here's a short and sweet tutorial on how to do these basic image edits... Read more...
Aside from the usual security and bug fixes that accompany any maintenance release of WordPress, there's a fix for one small, but very important issue. Currently within the bulk editing tools on the Users Dashboard page you can select yourself and set yourself as a subscriber (or technically any other role). This could result in you, as an admin, locking yourself out of your own site. Read more...
Here’s a simple plugin that got me very excited when I first heard about. It’s called WP Web Scraper. It’s created by Web Labs and available free in the WordPress Plugin Repository. WP Web Scraper works a little like an iframe, in that it lets you grab content from other web pages and insert it into [...] Read more...
Just a reminder for those who have been thinking about jumping into the Catalyst framework but haven’t done so yet, today and tomorrow are the final two days of the Catalyst Anniversary Sale where the savings are the highest I’ve ever seen. Resolve to make 2012 site development a whole lot easier! Look at these [...] Read more...
Got a custom menu you created in Appearance > Menus and now wonder how you can add it to your WordPress site? Sure, with Catalyst you can add it pretty easily to the default navbar locations, but what if you want your menu somewhere else. In fact, what if you want your custom menu smack dab in [...] Read more...
If you haven’t seen Automatics super plugin Jet Pack, the release of 1.2 (now 1.2.1) just might have the tools to inspire you to finally check it out. With a fairly simple admin area, you will have access to an array of great tools. My favorite has been Sharing, which like so many other plugins [...] Read more...
If you like to blog about food, cooking or anything else that might include a recipe, then the new ReciPress plugin from developer Tammy Hart might suite your appetite perfectly. The current release includes: Custom meta box to create a recipe with a photo, title, summary, cuisine, course, skill level, yield, servings, prep and cook [...] Read more...
Round 4 kicked off over night. It’s elite eight time in WP Candy’s Theme Madness competition and no one was predicting early on that the little old theme with fewer than 2000 users could have made it this far. Last round Catalyst took down the #2 seated DIY Themes, but this round only gets tougher [...] Read more...
Catalyst did it again, thanks to many of you, by out voting the competition in the WP Candy Theme Madness competition. Results were delayed by several days but they have now been released and once again Catalyst proved it’s ability to rally it’s community support. 11. Catalyst Theme: 298 2. DIYThemes: 94 We may have [...] Read more...
I’ve been wanting to incorporate video into my site for a while. This is a good way to get a message across and with today’s internet, it’s easier than ever. Only thing you need is a quality video. Well thanks to Jeremy Baker and his company, JTB Internet Marketing, I now have the video. There [...] Read more...