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Get your latest tweets on your blog – Plugin free
WordPress Coding & Design There are a lot of plugins for WordPress that deal with Twitter. It can be hard to find the right one when you have a specific feature in mind. Although there are some really useful ones, sometimes a plugin is not always the answer. If you want to add your latest tweets to your blog but you don’t have the resources for another plugin, or you just like doing things by hand, here is some code you can use to add your latest tweets from ...
Continue readingAdding custom icons to your WordPress theme
WordPress Coding & Design If you are using a WP framework it is quite simple to modify the background images and icons set up with the theme. Some of the more powerful themes even allow you to upload new images from right inside the admin area. However, if you’re using something a little simpler, most of the time you have to go in and manually add images to your theme the old fashioned way. If your theme falls under the latter, we’ve got the quick and dirty ...
Continue readingWordPress theme frameworks
WordPress Themes WordPress theme frameworks are themes that allow you to change around and restyle the elements of your theme through an options page. They essentially allow you to customize your theme without having to use the code editor. But these days a real framework is a theme that has connectivity to social media like Twitter and Facebook, is built for child themes and supports microformats. If there’s one thing that WordPress is truly renowned for, ...
Continue reading7 Awesome WordPress clone themes
WordPress Themes One of the great things about the infinite extensibility of WordPress is the endless array of choices you have as to how you want to display your content. That is one of the reasons that cloning is so popular in the WP themer community. So popular is the idea of cloning major websites into WP themes that it has even lead to the creation of new WordPress marketplaces such as StyleWP, a community dedicated to providing cloned themes. For those of ...
Continue readingDesktop themes for WordPress
WordPress Themes WordPress themes which resemble an actual wooden desk are becoming a trend and its’ easy to see why so many desk themes are starting to pop up. Giving your blog readers a chance to sit down at your virtual desktop is a great way to make your blog more inviting and give it a quirky appeal. Theres always been something about a nice wooden background on a web page and the following designs have made excellent use of that. Coffee Desk A desk ...
Continue reading7 Twitter plugins for WordPress
WordPress Plugins Every blogger and their mother has a Twitter profile these days. Twitter has almost gotten bigger than The Beatles. Twitter is one of the only social networking sites that has broken major news stories, and this has caused even the mainstream media to pay attention. There is no better time to latch on and take advantage of all that Twitter has to offer your blog. The WordPress development community has clearly caught on to this and we are seeing ...
Continue readingSearch Engine Optimizing your WordPress installation
WordPress If you’re obsessive about SEO you likely already have a domain name that contains one relevant keyword, an entire keyword phrase or even a targeted search term. This is a great practice if you have a website that is highly targeted to one topic or set of keywords, but there is a lot more you can do that will help to boost your search engine ranking position (SERP) and possibly outrank the sites that DO have your keyword in their domain ...
Continue readingSimplePress & BBpress : Integrating forums with WordPress
WordPress Plugins There was not always a lot of options for any bloggers wanting to integrate a forum with WordPress. When WordPress was in its’ infancy there were a scattered set of forum plugins and bridges to other open source forums like phpBB or even paid scripts like invision board. Now there are solutions that WordPress users can be more comfortable with. In the search for the perfect forum solution for WordPress I have found two very equal ...
Continue readingWordPress plugins that help to build an interactive online community
WordPress Plugins WordPress is a fantastically versatile blogging platform. It is fully capable of not only providing everything you need in a blog, but can be pushed even further to provide everything you need in a website, CMS, social network and all-in-one convection oven. Okay, maybe that last one was pushing it. There are a lot of options available to you if you are looking to add some social media aspects to your WordPress blog or further extend the ...
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