Jean Galea is an investor, entrepreneur, and writer. He is the founder of WP Mayor, and the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight. He also runs the Good Life Collective. Connect with him on X or visit jeangalea.com.
Displaying a date on your blog posts is recommended, both for search engines and also for your audience.
Most blogs display the post publish date, which you would think makes sense. But I think there’s a better way of doing it, and that is by displaying the last updated date.
This week we’ve had a real storm brewing in the WordPress community. It was brought about by the grand entrance of WP Avengers onto the scene, which rekindled talk about the GPL and ethical conduct between plugin and theme developers.
Are you a plugin developer in need of some ideas on how to promote your plugin?
Here’s your goldmine, just came across this excellent article on how to promote your plugin using a variety of methods. Check it out!
It’s all easy and dandy when you are the only one writing on your blog, but when the site grows and you want to get more people involved, some complexities are introduced.
Custom Post Types and Custom Fields were the two features that really transformed WordPress from a simple blogging tool to a fully-fledged CMS. Many still think that custom post types and custom fields are hard to implement, but today I’m going to give you two plugins that will make you the master of CPTs and custom fields within 10 minutes max. Try them out!
In today’s plugin review, we’ll be taking a look at WP Reviews Pro, which is part of the 3-pronged package of plugins you get when you sign up for a membership at authorhreview.com. This is one of my all-time favourite WordPress plugins, and since I use it on a daily basis, I’m very glad to write about it and show you what it can do.
On review today we have the WooCommerce Booking & Appointment Plugin from Ashok Rane at Tychesoftwares.com.
Booking and appointment plugins are very much in demand right now, so this plugin is a very welcome addition. WooCommerce itself has been growing very rapidly and is probably the most popular e-commerce system for WordPress nowadays, so the idea to create a booking add-on specifically for WooCommerce makes a lot of sense.
Hello, my name is Brian Jackson. I currently run and operate two websites. One is a popular IT blog http://theitbros.com and the other is my personal portfolio site, http://brianleejackson.com
Thanks to Jean, I won a free year of hosting with WP Engine. I was looking for a new WordPress host and have had my eyes on WP Engine for quite a while.
W3 Total Cache is the most popular caching WordPress plugin out there. What made it this popular was the extensive settings that offer advanced options to configure the caching exactly like you need it. With the integration abilities being one of the strongest parts of W3TC, it can be integrated with almost any server side caching software or just use the system’s hard drive, particularly useful for shared hosts. Lets see how we can integrate MaxCDN with W3 Total Cache.
You might have noticed that when WordPress updates you will get a nice welcome screen highlighting the new features of the release.
This same screen has also been employed by some plugins, such as WYSIJA and Easy Digital Downloads.
I find it a great way to really make sure that users are aware of all the important features that have been introduced. This will lead to happier users and possibly fewer support requests.
So how does WordPress generate the feeds for your blog? This post explains the process of how WordPress generates its feeds.
In recent months there’s been quite a bit of discussion surrounding the pricing of WordPress premium plugins.
It all started with a post from Chris Lema. He suggested that WordPress plugin prices are too low. He followed that up with another post about pricing plugins by value. Both are essential readers for all plugin developers. The first post drew a huge number of comments, many of which are also very eye-opening.