Author: Jean Galea

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.

Articles written by Jean Galea

Best Sharing Plugins for WordPress

When blogging it is essential to let your readers easily share the content you are producing. With social sharing icons you will thus be aiding your users. In this post we examine some of the most popular options for WordPress.

Best Google Maps Plugins for WordPress

In this post we take a look at how Google Maps works and examine the best Google Maps plugins for WordPress. Everything from a simple map for one location to maps showing user’s search results!

Publish Posts to RSS At a Later Time

This hack delays posting to the RSS feeds for 10 minutes (you can customise it). This can be useful as it gives you some leeway to re-read the live post and make any minor changes before it goes to the RSS feeds. Using this hack you can also keep content exclusive to your site for a day or a week before pushing it out to your RSS readers.

How to Add Buttons and CSS Classes to TinyMCE

When creating websites for clients, especially those who are not so familiar with website editing or the internet in general, it is always useful to customize the WordPress Admin to make it simpler and more intuitive. Once customization is that of adding functionality to the TinyMCE visual editor. For example,

WordPress Debugging Guide

Did you know that WordPress provides a number of debugging tools for you? These are especially useful for theme and plugin developers. We can also find some plugins which can be helpful in debugging our WordPress code. In this post we take a look at WordPress in-built features as well as some great plugins for debugging.

Best Slideshow (Content Slider) Plugins for WordPress

Call them content sliders, slideshows, rotating images, or anything you want, these effects are here to stay. They’re great at showcasing your portfolio or to highlight some of the best content on your WordPress blog or website.

Here’s a list of the best free and premium content slider and slideshow plugins available for your WordPress sites.

Getting Started With HTML 5 and WordPress

HTML 5 is now more like the present than the future, and WordPress theme developers should stand up and take notice. Why not try and implement HTML 5 in your next WordPress project. We bring you all the resources you will need to get started immediately with HTML and WordPress.

Best IDE for WordPress Development

In this article we explore the various PHP IDE options available for editing WordPress files and building themes and plugins. We expand on our two winners: Notepad++ and Netbeans for PHP.

Best WordPress Hooks Database / Reference

Hooks are very useful in WordPress. They allow you to hook a custom function to an existing function, which allows you to modify WordPress’ functionality without editing core files.

Post Order

Best WordPress Plugin for Re ordering Posts and Pages

Changing the order of posts is something very convenient within a WordPress blog, and thankfully we’ve always had a few plugins that did the job very well, even providing us with an Ajax interface which made this task really easy and intuitive.