How to Put WordPress in Safe Mode For Quick Troubleshooting

by Sarah Gooding November 23^rd, 2012 2 Responses

Troubleshooting WordPress themes and plugins can be a frustrating experience if you don’t have any tools at your disposal. It’s especially difficult if you’re already locked out of your WordPress site. Don’t panic. You’ve still got some options. Here’s one you may not have heard about yet.

Turn on Safe Mode

Perhaps in the past you may have been advised to start deactivating plugins in hopes of finding the offending plugin, or switching to the default theme in order to see if your custom theme is causing a problem.

WordPress Plugins, WPMU DEV

White Label WordPress with Ultimate Branding

by James Farmer November 20^th, 2012 3 Responses

Back when I started Edublogs, I was slightly obsessed with branding it as Edublogs, rather than as WordPress.

This was down to competition for customers from WordPress.com, and also that I didn’t want to confuse users who didn’t know what WordPress was (WordPress? But this is Edublogs? Eh?)

So, every time there was a new release of WordPress here’s what had to do:

Go into the code and manually replace all the WP icons with E ones
Manually hack out all mentions of WordPress from the admin area
Manually add in Edublogs branding to replace it
Replace the Favicon with an Edublogs (rather than MU) one

WordPress Plugins

Create, Manage, and Charge for Events with the Events + Plugin

by Craig Grella November 19^th, 2012 4 Responses

Your organization puts on events and you need a way to create, manage, and display those events for maximum exposure. You need a place to collect RSVP’s, spread the word about your events through social networking channels, maybe even charge for those events and collect payments online – not just at the event. We’ll, we’ve got you covered – with the Events + plugin.

Plugins

jQuery Slider Shock: The Best Free Responsive Slider Plugin for WordPress

by Sarah Gooding November 19^th, 2012 4 Responses

Many WordPress slider plugins focus on one specific style or content type to showcase. jQuery Slider Shock is a new plugin that in many ways blows all the other slider plugins out of the water when it comes to customization options. It includes 31+ effects, 31+ customizable skins and the ability to change any design aspect.

jQuery Slider Shock is absolutely free, with an impressive list of features built-in:

Add thumbnails on any of the four sides of the slider
Create a video slider or get external sources
Add videos from any of your favorite videos host
Mix videos and images inside the slider

Plugins

WordPress Shortcode Plugin Provides Quality Web Elements in Seconds

by Joe Foley November 17^th, 2012 10 Responses

Most of us simply don’t have the artistic talent of a professional graphic artist. I can say that with certainty. All you need to do is take a quick look around the web. Even with professionally designed WordPress themes all over the place, the minute one of us non-artist types takes a hand to our sites, the results can get ugly.

Plugins

Donate Extra: A PayPal Donations Plugin For WordPress

by Sarah Gooding November 16^th, 2012 Leave a comment

With the season of giving upon us, there will be a number of good causes out there that will need help accepting donations. PayPal is probably one of the easiest ways for an individual or organization to start receiving online donations, but not all WordPress PayPal plugins are created the same.

Donate Extra is a plugin that goes beyond just a simple donation button. It includes several advanced features such as the ability to accept recurring donations, anonymous donations, and integration with PayPal’s IPN.

The Donate Extra form can be placed on your donation page using a shortcode.

Community, WordPress Plugins

A WordPress Chat Plugin That Draws A Crowd

by Matthew Tschoegl November 15^th, 2012 3 Responses

As blogging becomes more and more professional, we are seeing a range of new analytic services, tools, and techniques that aim to better understand the mind and intentions of the user. The user, we are to understand, is a fickle, inscrutable, and unfathomable beast who can only be understood through careful observation by the Jane Goodall of your analytics software.

Plugins

New HTML5 Responsive WordPress Gallery Plugin Improves Default Gallery

by Joe Foley November 14^th, 2012 4 Responses

Although there are lot of nice gallery plugins out there, the truth is that the default built-in gallery for WordPress is actually fairly nice. It’s simple, it’s clean-looking, and it gives you easy control over things such as the number of columns, the order of the images, what type of page the images link to, and more. (See How to Insert a WordPress Photo Gallery for exact instructions on inserting a gallery.)

WordPress Plugins

7 Solid Plugins For Creating Custom Forms With WordPress

by Sarah Gooding November 13^th, 2012 8 Responses

A forms plugin with an easy-to-use interface can make the creation of custom forms virtually painless. Whereas form creation used to require HTML coding experience, now just about anybody can set up even the most complex, multi-part forms. The forms we’ve selected here are some of the major players that support powerful custom form builders within the WordPress dashboard.
Gravity Forms