By default, WordPress’s emails are pretty ugly. No logo, header, or footer or any styling at all really.
Wouldn’t it be nice to add your own branding to it? Make it look like an email someone actually wants to read — instead of looking like a dog’s breakfast of text. Not only that, but you want to make it easy for everyone that reads email on their mobiles, not to have to zoom in and scroll both horizontal and vertical to read!
WordPress.tv has long been a great community resource for all WordPress related video.
That goes for screencasts, tutorials, guides, WordCamp presentations, and much more. At long last, they’ve turned to the community for help.
Yep! Now anybody can submit their WordPress screencasts, videos, interviews, reports, reviews and videocasts to WordPress.tv for the whole community learn and thrive from.
As with any good content aggregator, they’ve got some strict guidelines for quality control, but I think it’s a good thing.
At WMPU DEV we’ve released a fresh plugin that lets you connect with your audience — at the perfect moment!
Slide In is an easy marketing tool that allows you to create messages that slide in and show themselves to your users at the exact moment you pick.
There are over 350 WordPress plugins tagged “Share” in the WordPress plugin directory. But most of them, let’s be honest, fall short, with the exception of a handful of excellent winners.
I’d say there are three facets to social integration: Engagement, Self Promotion, and Viral Value. Whilst you can force none of these, there are definitely great tools out there to make it as easy as possible for you and your readers to make noise about your site on social networks.
Without further ado, I present to you the mighty five of WordPress social integration.
I’m a massive fan of building stuff from the ground up. There are loads of plugins around for everything you could ever wish for in a WordPress blog, but I feel both rewarded and secure when I build features from scratch.
Why bother? Most of the time I don’t want to mess around with a plugin’s UI, or the plugin does way more than I actually want it to do. Without hacking the core files, plugins can be very rigid with what you’re allowed to do.
For the majority of articles I write, I begin with a fresh install of WordPress. It’s the best way to ensure control when you have people following along and doing exactly what you do.
It would be very tedious if for each article I wrote, I had to create an entirely new WordPress instance. That would require a fresh database, the most recent version of WordPress, a new user, etc.
The answer, of course, is WordPress Multisite. (Btw, check out our Multisite guides here.)
Responsive Web Design is all the craze at the moment. Watching websites cascade into different layouts as you resize the browser can even be mesmerising.
But there’s one facet of RWD that still remains a (properly) unsolved problem. Responsive Images.
Download the source files (twentytwelve child theme).
If you simply use CSS’s max-width: 100%; attribute, mobile sites will still be downloading full size images. That’s an issue, because if your desktop site has images 920px wide, the mobile version will still be downloading this massive image, making loading time slow.
Enter Picturefill
The cool guys over at Automattic have been working hard to bring a really impressive plugin to the masses — Jetpack.
Jetpack brings loads of the features from wordpress.com blogs to your self-hosted WordPress site.
It comes with 24 free modules to beef up your WordPress experience. But are they really all necessary?
Today I’m going to review four WordPress plugins that can help you get custom fonts set up easily on your blog.
Custom fonts have swept the web, starting with Flash & Javascript based solutions such as sIFR and Cufon. Next came @font-face and high quality hosting services such as Google Web Fonts, Typekit and Fonts.com.
Whichever you choose, you’re eventually going to have to install it on your website, and if you don’t want to take the path of installing it yourself, there are a plethora of plugins that can help you.
Matt Mullenweg’s State Of The Word was very insightful into what was to come of WordPress in 2012. One thing he mentioned would be big, is be WordPress powering apps.
With that in mind, there aren’t many posts around that teach you how to make an app. I thought I’d start with the compulsory “How to make a to-do list app using WordPress!” It even works across all platforms- that’s right. Mobile, Tablet and Desktop!
