WordPress 3.3 “Sonny”: Easier Media Upload and Cleaner Dashboard Design
December 29th, 2011 by Youzhny
WordPress 3.3, named “Sonny”, has been released. The new version features easier media upload, cleaner dashboard design, better co-editing, and new Tumblr Importer.
Easier media upload
WordPress 3.3 now make it simpler to upload files with only only 1 upload button and auto detects the file type of your upload file(s). You simply drag-and-drop files into the upload area to upload your files....
WordPress Email from Address
December 7th, 2011 by Youzhny
Just a quick from me today.
WordPress is pretty good, but one thing that always was a little strange was the way your site emails always came from “wordpress@mydomain.com” instead of being able to set it yourself.
Open up your themes functions.php bang this in and edit as per your needs and your done!
add_filter('wp_mail_from', 'custom_mail_from');
add_filter('wp_mail_from_name', 'custom_mail_from_name');
function...Super Useful WordPress Admin Customisations
November 4th, 2011 by Youzhny
I’ve recently been working on a big corporate theme and wanted to limit and customise the WordPress core much more than I have done in the past. A few handy lines inside your themes functions.php can easily achieve this a few examples are below.
Changing the Login Page Logo
Super easy just change the image path to match where you have put your logo!
//Custom Login Logo
function my_login_logo() {
...
WordPress – How to increase PHP Memory Limit ?
September 5th, 2011 by Youzhny
WordPress is a great blogging tool or a content publishing platform that comes with a rich set of features. Using the in-built appealing features you can create a professional looking site or blog just within few steps. (more…)
BlogPress SEO: solved
December 23rd, 2010 by Youzhny
I thought BlogPress SEO was bad, turns out, it’s worse. It’s malware. I had already discovered that it sent the admin email to the plugin’s author, but today, mtekk uncovered that it was adding an option to log in, solely with that email address. Yes that’s bad. I checked out the plugin code again, and noticed something that could solve all this.
You see, WordPress, by default,...
Featured BuddyPress Theme: Studio
November 30th, 2010 by Youzhny
To end our week of BuddyPress Themes and Plugins let’s take a look at a Premium theme from BuddyDress. Studio was released back in September. It has an attractive slider, beautiful design and is packed full of options for customization. It has built in theme options, built in Google fonts directory, and comes SEO ready.
Features
Content buckets – choose the content you want and let StudioPress...
Categories and Tags: SEO Best Practices For Sorting Your WordPress Content
November 30th, 2010 by Youzhny
Confused about the difference (or the similarities) between WordPress categories and tags? You’re not alone. Of course you want to organize your site’s content in the most effective way possible for your readers and visitors to be able to easily find what they’re looking for. But you also want to make sure your site is as search engine friendly as possible so that people can find your site in...
Daily Tip: BP-Tricks has Relaunched with an Expanded Community for BuddyPress Lovers
November 30th, 2010 by Youzhny
If you’re a BuddyPress fan or new to the platform, one of the sites you need to know about is BP-Tricks.com. It’s a community dedicated to fostering new ideas and innovations for BuddyPress. Users can connect to each other and share knowledge and tips and discuss new ideas. BP-Tricks is sporting a fantastic new community design:
Head on over to BP-Tricks and create your own profile and add your...
BuddyPress Mobile Plugin
November 25th, 2010 by Youzhny
More and more people are using their iPhones, iPads Android phones and other smartphones to access websites. This is particularly important for social media sites which people love to check when they are on the go. If you’re going to have a sustainable BuddyPress site then its worth installing BuddyPress Mobile.
Features
Optimize BuddyPress sites for iPhone, Android and some Blackberry devices
Automatically...
WordPress 3.1 running on WordPress.com
November 24th, 2010 by Youzhny
WordPress 3.1 has been running on WordPress.com for the last few days, in part to test the codebase on a large scale before releasing it on WordPress.org soon.
The announcement post also includes descriptions for many of the new features in WordPress 3.1, including:
Internal linking
Column sorting
Better pagination
Ajax search results (in the Dashboard)
If you just can’t stand waiting for 3.1...
Review: Shelf Theme from The Theme Foundry
November 24th, 2010 by Youzhny
The Theme Foundry’s latest tumblog theme, Shelf, was designed by Jon Hicks and sports a photo-real, 3D design. Attempted by the wrong people, the words “photo-real” and “3D” used together when describing a website design could lead to disaster. In this case, the end result is very pleasant and just works.
But a quality theme is more than just looks. It’s about how it functions, how easy...
If you use WordPress, you should take the ALA Survey
November 23rd, 2010 by Youzhny
A List Apart wants to find out more about you with their 2010 web design survey. 2010 marks the fourth year of “The Survey For People Who Make Websites”. It’s a pretty quick and easy process, with 43 questions – but don’t worry, only the last couple require any typing.
The survey is mostly geared toward people who work in the industry full time, but they want your opinion if you’re a...