PSA: WPMU DEV will NOT support the Salutation Theme

by Mason September 18^th, 2012 28 Responses

Update: To clarify for future generations, this post is in regard to Salutation Theme versions up to 1.5. We’ll update again when/if this issue is resolved by the theme developers.

Update #2: As of Salutation 2.0 this theme is remarkably more compatible with custom post types and WPMU DEV plugins. We’re stoked to see the developers respond for the betterment of all customers. The article and instructions below are no longer relevant and we’re seeing folks have positive results with this theme. Thanks.

Community, Plugins

Free Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for Your WordPress Sites

by Clifford Paulick September 14^th, 2012 6 Responses

Does your website have a Terms of Service and Privacy Policy?
It really should.

Do you recommend your clients create their own, but they say they don’t want to?
Now it’s easy to get a generic (but customized) Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
Why You Should Have Terms of Use and Privacy Policy Pages
All of your and your clients’ sites should have these legal documents publicly posted for several reasons:

Best Practices
Required if you create a Facebook App (e.g. to integrate your site with Facebook)
Establishes credibility with visitors, even if they don’t click on or read them
Protects you and your business

WordPress Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy

Community, Tutorials

How to Integrate Aweber with WHMCS Billing for WordPress

by Craig Grella September 11^th, 2012 Leave a comment

The WHMCS provisioning plugin makes it easy to integrate WordPress with the WHMCS billing software, a program which lets you use your website to sell hosting packages, domains, and other virtual products and services.

And if you’re a fanatic about email marketing, chances are your preferred list manager is Aweber; one of the most feature-packed systems available for maintaining contact with your customers and list subscribers.

Separately, these two programs feature some of the best integrations on the web, but developers have yet to add a custom solution to integrate the two programs themselves.

Integrating Aweber email marketing and WHMCS for WordPress Billing

Community

The Ultimate WordPress Affiliate Plugin for Raising Your Own Marketing Army

by Seth Czerepak September 7^th, 2012 1 Response

If you’re a WordPress enthusiast who wants to outsource your traffic generation and conversions, you need an army of motivated affiliates working on your behalf. This is how most of the big earners in the online world connect with new customers and earn those ridiculous profits which the rest of us secretly hate them for.

Community

21 of the Coolest WordPress Sites You’ve Ever Seen

by Sarah Gooding September 4^th, 2012 2 Responses

A few weeks ago Matt Mullenweg put out a call on his blog for the Coolest WP Site You’ve Seen, in order to collect some sites for his 2012 State of the Word Presentation. Readers left dozens of comments listing the most impressive WordPress sites they had come across. I couldn’t help but check them all out and wanted to share with our readers the most dazzling sites among those listed. Grab a cup of coffee (or tea) and prepare to be inspired by all that’s possible with WordPress!

Bonnaroo

Charity: Water

Slipstream Sports

No 10: British Prime Minister’s Office

CSS-Tricks

Adham Dannaway

Craft Recipes

Community, Plugins

Add Scrolling Testimonials to Your WordPress Site

by Sarah Gooding September 4^th, 2012 Leave a comment

Word of mouth is one of the most powerful forces on the planet. Displaying customer or client testimonials on your website can lend credibility to your brand and help to establish your online reputation. Testimonials Pro is a beautiful new WordPress plugin that lets you share what your clients have said using a widget or shortcode.

Configuring testimonials is very easy to do within the plugin’s dashboard settings panel:

BuddyPress, Community

BuddyCamp Vancouver 2012: The First WordCamp for BuddyPress

by Sarah Gooding September 1^st, 2012 1 Response

Some very exciting news was announced in the BuddyPress community this week. The very first BuddyCamp will be happening soon! BuddyCamp Vancouver will take place on Sunday, October 14th and Monday, October 15th.

This event will be very much like a WordCamp except completely focused on BuddyPress. Sunday morning will include plenary sessions with talks from members of the BuddyPress core team. Tracks will be available for both beginners and developers in the afternoon. Monday is set aside to be a BuddyPress Hack Day.

Community

Landing a WordPress Job

by Paul Kaiser August 30^th, 2012 2 Responses

Employers increasingly consider “WordPress” its own skill set in today’s job market. It’s no longer enough to simply say “I know WordPress.” How do you prepare for WordPress-heavy job interviews? Learn some key bases to cover for the four main types of WordPress positions.

Four Types of WordPress Jobs
What kind of WordPress job are you looking for? I’ll divide this article into the 4 types I see the most.
1. Writing / Editing / Managing a WordPress site
These jobs use WordPress tools to create and manage website content.
2. Theme Development

Community, Plugins

Revolution Slider: A Premium Drag and Drop Slider for WordPress

by Craig Grella August 30^th, 2012 38 Responses

Revolution Slider is a new premium slider available in both jquery (for your standard html sites), and as a plugin for your WordPress powered website.

It offers an impressive feature set including:

Unlimited Slides
Unlimited Caption Layers
CSS Animation with a fallBack to jQuery
Vimeo & YouTube video
Drag and Drop layering

Here are a few examples of what Revolution Slider can do on your website:

Slide Editing
Revolution slider taps into your media library for photos, videos, or links placement inside sliders.