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.)
It’s about time that the WordPress Admin got some love! It was starting to look a little bit like the Velveteen Rabbit of the web. The good news is that the WordPress elves have secretly been hard at work designing a beautiful new update for the dashboard and we think you’re going to love it.
Hold on to your hats, folks! Here’s a sneak peek:
MP6: A Plugin to Break the wp-admin UI
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
If you run a WordPress Multisite install, then no doubt you’ve had your hands full trying to manage and/or display posts from across your network.
At WPMU DEV, we’ve built a whole host of plugins that help you do that, everything from Recent Global Posts Widget to Global Site Search to Global Site Tags and many more.
What you might not realize is that all of those plugins rely on a very powerful behind-the-scenes plugin called Post Indexer.
And so today is very good news for Multisite owners because the Post Indexer just got even more powerful.
What It Does
One of main reasons that BuddyPress communities fail is because members don’t connect and interact with each other. One way to improve that is through design that keeps members interested.
It has been almost three months since the release of WordPress 3.5 “Elvin” which brought many new features to the table, such as a revamped Media Manager and the elimination of Links Manager. That said, the roadmap for the release of version 3.6 has already been prepared, and in this article, we shall take a look at the new features and ideas that WP 3.6 is expected to bring to fruition.
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?
Stripe is the easiest payment gateway to use if you want to start selling online right away. However, you will be required to have an SSL certificate in place for PCI compliance if you want to have payments process on your site.
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!
