If you are a WordPress developer or designer or have been messing around in the world of WordPress for any period of time, you have by no doubt heard of WordPress hooks. Hooks are a set of custom written functions that can be added to existing functions in the WordPress core to increase, improve or remove functionality. WordPress plugins make extensive use of hooks to latch onto various portions of the WordPress themes or to the admin interface in order to provide the additional functionality or to perform certain actions in certain parts of the code. If you are looking to understand hooks, learn about all the action and filter hooks and all the deprecated hooks, find the latest changes and understand how hooks can be used in customizing WordPress, I suggest you look at Adam’s WordPress hooks database. Smashing Magazine has listed 10 Useful WordPress Hook Hacks in which they […]
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WordPress Theme Development Tools.: ThemeShaper puts together a list of many of the ingredients required to develop your own WordPress themes including the test content that helps to test the demo the functionality of WordPress themes and tutorials to help beginners get started. The inclusion of useful development tools such as Firefox extensions and even links to free text editors are appreciated. The one inclusion that I would have expected from the blog of a theme framework developer would have been a list of theme frameworks that a beginner could get started with.
[Continue Reading...]UPDATE: As from the comments below and various emails I have received, this might be an isolated issue related to my combination of code and plugins. Many people continue to use Feedburner Feed Replacement without any issues. If you have been using the Feedburner Feed Replacement Plugin originally from Steve Smith, and have not checked your feeds lately, it might be worth a few minutes of your time to do so. Just browse to your blog’s feed address (http://yourblog.com/feed/) and if you are redirected to your Feedburner feed, you are fine. Otherwise you need to uninstall the Feedburner plugin and get something else. About a month ago, this blog’s feed count lost about 5000 readers in one feel swoop which is a huge number and a rude wake up call for us. This has happened before with Feedburner and I thought the count would go back up once Feedburner straightened […]
[Continue Reading...]All the entries into the WordPress Plugin competition have been tallied and have been passed on to the judges. There are 43 entries in total that we have received. They are all listed below with an announcement about each plugin. You can also download a zip file with all the plugins in it, use them at your leisure and then rate them on the plugin competition blog. (If the plugin is not listed on the plugin competition blog, the authors have not followed the rules and they will not benefit from the user ratings) These plugins are listed in no particular order. If you submitted your plugin and it is not on this list, please contact us using the form above. Frederick Townes : W3 Total Cache W3 Total Cache is a plugin designed to improve user experience via a suite of performance enhancements consisting of a database cache, page […]
[Continue Reading...]26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for Your Blog: Mashable lists 26 places to find various pieces of free multimedia for your blog or website. Some of these are pretty commonly known (such as Flickr) but the video and audio resources were fun to browse through. Please do me a favor and not set auto-play on any audio/video you add to your blog. 🙂 Thanks Dan Ross via Twitter Picture credits Annie Mole found via Flick CC search.
[Continue Reading...]We have received forty two entries into the WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 and we will continue to receive entries till the end of the day today. Please submit your entries as soon as possible. Instructions and submission email as posted previously. We need your votes to help us choose the winners of the competition. As soon as we stop receiving entries, they will be tallied and passed on to the judges. We like to give the judges a few weeks to get their work done. In the meantime, our readers need to help us rate each of the plugins. So if you have not done so already, please head over to the Pluginblog and look through the many plugins that have been submitted. Don’t forget to come back and provide some feedback for the plugin authors and then rate their work. Thanks again to all the sponsors and well wishers […]
[Continue Reading...]Jeff and I have been having some interesting discussions surrounding the WordPress Codex and WordPress documentation. In case you were not aware, there is some fantastic volunteering work going on in WordPress documentation. We would like to see more people involved in the use of and help with the Codex and have some ideas up our sleeves towards that end. However, I think we also need to know what we are dealing with and would like some input from our readers. I see two different audiences of the Codex and thus the two separate polls. Comments are also appreciated. Let us know if you want to help with the Codex or if you would like to help with WordPress documentation. You are a Blogger. How often do you use the WordPress Codex?(online surveys) You are a Developer/Designer. How often do you use the WordPress Codex?(online surveys)
[Continue Reading...]There are now over 30 posts about new plugins on the WordPress Plugin Competition blog if you have not checked them out already. The prize purse stands at about $3000 thanks to some generous sponsors and well wishers. But the competition is about to come to a close. As promised, please send in your entries to the following email in the following format: Plugin Competition Entry Submission Email: ******@****.net Subject: WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 Entry: [Name of your Plugin] Body: [Your Name] [Your Email Address] [Your Paypal Address] [Plugin Competition Blog Post about your plugin] [Plugin Description] [Blog/website Address] Attachment: [a zip file containing the final version of your plugin to be considered for judging] If you have not done so already, please register on the Plugin Blog and post your entry on the blog so our readers can vote on them (did you vote on the plugins yet?). Then […]
[Continue Reading...]If you are a WordPress user, plugins should not be new to you. The WordPress Extend lists over 5800 plugins with over 40 million downloads. Plugins range from the obscure but ubiquitous Hello Dolly to the almost essential Akismet and All in One SEO pack. The most popular plugins are the ones that provide a necessary service and have become part of our daily lives. As I blog, I want to do certain things with my blog. When I first started with WordPress, my Sortable Nicer Archives plugin (Please do not use it, it has gone by the wayside. The plugin lives on in hacked form on our archives.) was a necessity for me because I wanted a cleaner form of archives. I scratched my itch and hacked together something that worked for me. I also needed a way to backup my WordPress database automatically and thus the WordPress DB […]
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- Mark Ghosh
An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.
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