So I manage a lot of WordPress sites and all of them suffer from comment spam at some level. What the heck has happened in the past couple of months? Each morning the old inbox is full of emails from the plethora of WordPress sites asking to validate the comments, "is this a genuine comment or is it just junk?" Most of the time - yup it's junk. So I took to the ... [Continue Reading]
Quick tips for WordPress, themes and plugins
Learning Gravity Forms – a new eBook
Looking for a great way to learn more about Gravity Forms? Perhaps you build sites and need a training resource for your clients to teach them how to use the plugin? Well you're mission on Google is over! Published this week is a new eBook, Learning Gravity Forms. Aimed at beginners who are using the WordPress plugin to build and manage forms on their website, the ... [Continue Reading]
WordPress custom post types, URLs and filtering
Almost every WordPress site we build these days has at least one custom post type, some have more than a lot. I came across this post by Seth Stevenson that is a very good resource if you're interested in how to use WordPress URLs to filter custom post types and their archive pages. It starts out showing you how to use URLs ... [Continue Reading]
WordPress, SEO and caching
Google's Page Speed has been around for a while now - if you're not familiar with it, it's Google online tool to show you the performance of your website. Why is this important? Well for a some time Google have been telling us that one of the things that it takes into consideration for search rankings is the speed at which the site is delivered. So you enter your site ... [Continue Reading]
Tabindex: how to fix when you’ve got two Gravity Forms
I'm a big fan of Gravity Forms, here's a little trick I discovered when you're using two forms on the one page. It may be a small thing but from a user's perspective, it's pain when forms don't work like they expect. Most people expect to be able to hit the tab key when in a form to be able to jump to the next field. Gravity Forms handles this for you when you have ... [Continue Reading]
WordPress multisite on Rackspace Cloud Sites
Chances are if you've found this post, you've been googling around to see if it's possible to run a WordPress multisite installation on the Rackspace Cloud Sites. Obviously if it's a sub-folder install you can as there is nothing tricky to that. (this is where you're sites run in a folder like domain.com/site1/) Where it can be harder is when you want to have users ... [Continue Reading]
WordPress RSS feed for individual categories
Commonly you publish a link on your WordPress site that allows people to subscribe to an RSS feed. By default WordPress makes a feed url available at your domain name + /feed/. So for example on this blog http://shilling.id.au the main feed is http://shilling.id.au/feed/ This functionality is part of WordPress, no plugins etc.. are required. What is lessor known ... [Continue Reading]
Basic password protection for WordPress using htaccess
When building WordPress sites, we often password protect them before we launch them so the half baked content is not accessible to the world. The quickest way to do this is use simple htaccess password protection, assumes you're using unix or linux based web server and apache, but that's almost a given :) First up you need to create a htpasswd file, this is an ... [Continue Reading]
Missing WordPress Excerpts and Custom Fields?
I started to notice this week that when in a post editing screen in WordPress, the fields that are normally there for adding excerpts and custom fields were missing. Initially I thought that there was something weird going on with code that I'd added to the sites but after doing another test and paying attention it was directly related to upgrading from WordPress 3.0 to ... [Continue Reading]
Customise the WordPress Login Screen
When building a wordpress site, particularly if you're building for a client, it's often overlooked to do these little last minute customisations. One that I like to do for our client site (At the DMA) is to customise the Wordpress Login page. As usual the quick and easy way to do this is with a Wordpress plugin. I generally use the BM Custom Login plugin from Binary ... [Continue Reading]
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