How many times have you handed over a project to a client, only to receive a phone call two weeks later saying “I think I broke the site…”? Maybe your client used the theme file editor that is built in to the WordPress admin pages, without having a clue about what they were doing. Sure, [...]
08 Mar 2012
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These days WordPress lets you choose an admin username when you create a new installation, but there are probably still millions of WordPress sites out there with an admin username of “admin”. This is not great for security, as it is one less thing for a hacker to guess or obtain. It’s far better to [...]
01 Mar 2012
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The post thumbnail feature introduced in WordPress 2.9 is an absolute boon, but the WordPress core developers missed a small trick which would have made the use of post thumbnails even easier. Wouldn’t it be good if you could go to the admin pages where you edit posts and pages and see at a glance [...]
26 Nov 2011
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As a web designer or developer, you may not think much about where your inspiration for visual layouts and elements comes from – not, that is, until it seems to run dry and you can’t assemble even a handful of pixels into something you can be proud of. Designer’s block can be thought of as [...]
29 Aug 2011
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Every so often I write a post like this one – and this is a subject worth revisiting, since new and better plugins get released all the time, and older ones stop being supported. Since my last article of this nature, two years and a whole load of WordPress releases have come and gone, so [...]
24 Jun 2011
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