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March 16, 2009

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How to: Add a “Share on facebook” link to your WordPress blog

As you know it, facebook is a very popular website, which allow you to share webpages you like with your friends. In order to promote your blog and gain some more traffic, you should definitely add a “Share on Facebook” link to your blog.
- By Jean-Baptiste Jung on WP Recipes
How To Find WordPress Documentation Fast

Have you ever spent what seems like hours looking for information about WordPress code? Spending too much Google time and not enough time actually finding the correct WordPress information you are searching for? There is now a neat tool, actually website,that can help you find what you are looking for fast.
- By Jeff on WordPress Max

Custom Widgets 2.0 Released

Tom Slayer who is the author of the Custom Widgets plugin that I wrote a review about on Performancing.com back in November 2008, sent me a note that he has released version 2.0 of the plugin. One of the things that worried me about the plugin is its interface for how you configured widgets. Thankfully, Tom has redesigned the interface from the ground up so it’s more intuitive.
- By Jeffro on WP Tavern
Postie Has New Life

Some of you may remember that back on January 15th, I asked if you had ever published a blog post via email. Many of you in the comments let me know that you enjoyed using Postie but wished it contained some of the same features that are found with the Posterous service.
- By Jeff Chandler on Weblog Tools Collection
Redirection

Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation.
- By Urban Giraffe

WordCamp Miami Presentation: WP Framework

One of our favorite WordCamp Miami presentations was Ptah Dunbar’s session in which he showed off his latest project, WPFramework. WPFramework is a blank WordPress theme framework that is aimed to cut down on the time it takes to develop a theme. As Ptah puts it, it’s “everything you need and nothing you don’t”. We saw a ton of great stuff in his presentation so here’s a recap of the session.
- By Dan Philibin on WP Candy
How to Make Your Wordpress Theme Widget Ready

How can I widgetize my Wordpress theme? This is one of the most common questions newbie’s ask when they start out creating Wordpress themes. I myself happened to fall onto a great tutorial on this topic before I even knew what widgets were when I first started out with Wordpress, so I never even had a chance to ask how to do this, I’ve just always known. Sadly, I can’t find that tutorial anymore, so I figured I’d replace it with one by me.
- By Ralph on For The Lose

Blogging Positions You as a Thought Leader to Your Customers

As a consultant you are constantly reading and reviewing the latest products, books, and websites that are related to your field of expertise. What many don’t know is that you can use the research you already are doing to position yourself as a thought leader in your area of consulting to your customers.
- By Chris Forbes on Happy Joe
Advice For Part Time Bloggers Juggling Blogging with Work, Family and Other Commitments

Over on Twitter recently @jimlavin asked if I had any ‘ideas how someone with a normal day job can schedule time to blog on a regular basis?
- By Darren Rowse on ProBlogger

20 Useful CSS Tips For Beginners

In the old days, we depend a lot of on developers and programmers to help update the website, even when it’s just a minor one. Thanks to the CSS and it’s flexibility, styles can be extract independently away from the codes. Now, with some basic understanding of CSS, even a novice can easily change the style of a website.
- By Hongkiat
Professional Frontend Engineering

Last night, long after I should have fallen asleep, I came across a fantastic overview of “frontend engineering.” This is a must-watch video, presented by Nate Koechley. Many designers will get more from this video than an entire book. Nate covers everything from underused html tags, to doctypes, to proper naming conventions. I highly recommend watching it.
- By Jeffrey Way on Nettuts
Designing for RSS Feeds

It is a problem nearly every blogger has at some point. They design a beautiful post using their blog’s composition panel, working hard to get every detail as perfect as possible, only to open it up in their RSS reader after publishing it and seeing that it is an ugly mess.
- By Jonathan Bailey on The Blog Herald