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.
Google have just announced that Google Reader, a most-loved RSS feed aggregator, will shut down come July 1. As is to be expected, many people were outraged by this decision. If you’re one of the Google Reader users, and you’re also working with WordPress, let me present you with an alternative.
A problem I frequently encounter when working with databases (especially large ones), is that they will cause problems when importing through PhpMyAdmin.
I recently came across the excellent online learning site Udemy.com, and I was pleased to find a number of WordPress-related courses. Here are some of the best I’ve found, hopefully they will also help you learn more about WordPress.
Here are some good resources and tutorials dealing with the subject of Object Oriented WordPress plugin development.
Everyone knows about Akismet, but there are a few good alternatives to that plugin for beating the spam disease. Lets take a look at a few of them.
Many plugin and theme developers fail to properly prepare their plugins and themes for localization.
I suspect that rather than an unwillingness on their part to do this important task, it’s instead a case of getting confused about what’s needed.
So let me give you some examples to show how easy it is to prepare strings for localization.
During the last couple of months, we’ve been really active here at WP Mayor, maintaining a near daily post rate about all things WordPress. The visitor stats have been growing steadily and I’m very happy with the audience this site has.
Still, I’m not entirely satisfied with the way things stand, and today I’m turning to you for feedback.
You all know what a content slider is, they’ve been some of the most popular and sought after elements on websites for the past few years now. There’s a whole sea of free and premium sliders, but only a few stand head and shoulders above the rest. I believe Royal Slider is one of them.
Finding a good web host is probably the first headache of any person trying to build his own site, along with choosing a domain name.
Shared web hosting is the affordable hosting solution for people looking to start a personal website, blog or small business. By hosting on a shared web server, you are able to cover all your hosting needs while keeping monthly fees as low as possible. This is achieved by hosting your website on a server that is shared with many other website owners.
I’ll make things simpler for you by gathering the best shared hosting providers I’ve used and comparing them in this post.
Let’s try out something new here on WP Mayor. I’ve been doing quite a few offline question and answer sessions about WordPress here in Chiang Mai.
So we’re going to make a trial and see if there is demand for a weekly question and answer session for all of you followers of WP Mayor.
The Reviews feature introduced on WordPress.org a few months ago was definitely a welcome addition to the repository, however I see too many people abusing it lately, especially for those plugins which are very popular. I suspect that some people expect that because the plugin is so famous they only need to install it and press activate, and it will even make a coffee for them.
Here’s some of the best tutorials and resources for building custom meta boxes that I’ve come across in the past two years. I’m posting them here to have a handy reference for all those building plugins and themes.