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"50 Great WordPress Resources for 2013 (WPHub)"

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 07:25:38 -0500

“50 Great WordPress Resources for 2013 (WPHub)”

- 50 Excellent Resources for WordPress in 2013 - WPHub

Migrating WordPress Websites

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:49:30 -0500

Migrating WordPress Websites:

Some good tips and advice for when you — or your clients — want a change of server scenery.

Good security tip

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:17:03 -0600

Good security tip:

Add this to your functions.php file so anyone trying to login, but fails, won’t be told whether it was the username or password that was wrong. (Via tutsplus.com)

/* SO DON’T SEE WHICH PART OF LOGIN YOU FAILED */

function failed_login () {

return ‘the login information you have entered is incorrect.’;

}

add_filter ( ‘login_errors’, ‘failed_login’ );

14 CDN Providers to Make WordPress Blazing Fast

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:08:52 -0600

14 CDN Providers to Make WordPress Blazing Fast

Put Your WordPress Newsroom on Steroids

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 11:22:33 -0600

Put Your WordPress Newsroom on Steroids

10 Cloud-Based Website Prototyping Tools

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:42:19 -0600

10 Cloud-Based Website Prototyping Tools:

(onextrapixel.com)

“Online web prototyping tools are more easily accessible than desktop versions. You can log on from your computer at work, the laptop you take when you travel, or the desktop you have at home. You don’t need to install any software so it doesn’t matter what operating system you are using. Any designer or reviewer can use Windows, Mac or Linux computers to access the prototypes, just as you can use any computer to access the final website.… .

“Here are some of the online website prototyping applications available right now.”

How to Import and Export Widget Settings Across WordPress Sites

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 11:35:24 -0600

How to Import and Export Widget Settings Across WordPress Sites:

This is a great plug-in for what typically turns out to be a manual process when you migrate a site.

WordPress 3.5 First Look: Yay or Nay?

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 07:59:31 -0600

WordPress 3.5 First Look: Yay or Nay? :

A decent overview of the changes with the WP 3.5 update that hit today.

50 Most Useful jQuery Plugins from 2012

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:42:34 -0600

50 Most Useful jQuery Plugins from 2012:

(SpeckyBoy) With hundreds upon hundreds (if not thousands) of new plugins being released this year – what a great jQuery year it has been. From that colossal total we have worked really hard filtering down all of the those plugins to bring you the 50 that we feel are the most innovative, most ground-breaking and, more importantly, the most useful.

12/11 likely release date for WP 3.5

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:57:52 -0600

Highlights:

Final UI improvements for the new media manager, based on lots of great feedback.
Show more information about uploading errors when they occur.
When inserting an image into a post, don’t forget the alternative text.
Fixes for the new admin button styles.
Improvements for mobile devices, Internet Explorer, and right-to-left languages.
Fix cookies for subdomain installs when multisite is installed in a subdirectory.
Fix ms-files.php rewriting for very old multisite installs.

(via Chris Coyier: 10 Things to make your site faster |...

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 16:43:43 -0600

(via Chris Coyier: 10 Things to make your site faster | WordPress.tv)

Best WordPress Video Training Resources

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:18:14 -0600

Best WordPress Video Training Resources

5 Reasons You Should Lightbox Your Post Images

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:45:27 -0600

(WPMU.org) The saying “a picture tells a thousand words” was never so true as it is in blogging. Using images in your posts takes your blogging to another level. Images can be used functionally – to break-up long blocks of text, and they can also be used to improve your blog’s aesthetic – high res images complement your text with dramatic flair. But just adding an image through the post editor is not going to give your blog any razzle dazzle. For that, you’re going to need a lightbox; and here are five reasons why.

Understanding and Using WordPress Shortcodes

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:21:29 -0600

Understanding and Using WordPress Shortcodes

Using WordPress to Create a Micro-Site within an Existing Theme

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:24:30 -0600

Using WordPress to Create a Micro-Site within an Existing Theme

20 things that could be slowing your website down | Econsultancy

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:26:00 -0600

20 things that could be slowing your website down | Econsultancy

HTML5 & CSS3 Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:02:44 -0500

Want to learn a different language? Over the course of 21 episodes, our friend Bob Tabor from www.LearnVisualStudio.net will teach you the fundamentals of HTML5 & CSS3 programming. Tune in to learn concepts about web pages, CSS3 styles and HTML5 features. We’ll walk you through getting the web prinicpals, writing code and much more! Each concept is broken into its own video so you can search for and focus on the information you need.

Top 5 Mistakes for your WordPress Website Security

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 08:43:23 -0500

Top 5 Mistakes for your WordPress Website Security

How to Add Google’s Verified Authorship to your WordPress Blog

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:02:30 -0500

How to Add Google’s Verified Authorship to your WordPress Blog

How to Secure and Protect WordPress Website through .htaccess file

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:12:55 -0500

How to Secure and Protect WordPress Website through .htaccess file