WordPress is one of the most popular Open Source CMS platforms found on the web today, used by millions of bloggers around the world to publish and manage their articles and media online. Businesses have also adopted WordPress, and its SEO-friendly model, as a perfect way to host their web presence. There are numerous Open Source plugins and themes available that greatly expand the base functionality of WordPress, and Automattic remains one of the most active companies on the web today driving its development to new levels. WebDevNews and Attackr are produced by full time WordPress developers who program new solutions for the CMS and build sites for clients with its tools. If you develop with WordPress, check the sites for informative articles, free resources, and guides, or add your blog to our mix reporting on WordPress tips and tricks.

Headspace2 HeadSpace is a powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and handle a wide range of SEO tasks. With it you can tag your posts, create custom titles and descriptions that improve your page ranking, change the theme or run disabled plugins on specific pages, and a whole lot more. Google Sitemap Generator This plugin [...]

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With a little planning – anyone can have a website they can be proud of – or at least not embarrassed with anymore.

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The Internet is great but unfortunately there are unscrupulous people who, for whatever reasons, will attack, hack, and cause havoc to your WordPress blog if you’re not taking steps to secure it. The very first thing that you should always do is keep your WordPress blog upgraded to the latest version. Some people say don’t [...]

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This year has been a rough one for everyone and so I got to thinking about how I could possibly give back this holiday season and here’s what I came up with: I created a special package of 70 eye-catching header graphics to be used on your websites, blogs, or other projects. 20 of the [...]

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Using WordPress on an IIS (windows) server can be a real pain. The biggest issue I have found is trying to get pretty permalinks (making the address bar look like http://www.james-morrison.org/wordpress/ rather than http://www.james-morrison.org/index.php/wordpress/ or worse http://www.james-morrison.org/?p=123). I have found an easy way to get around this (my site is hosted on an IIS server) [...]

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One of the main characteristics of Web 2.0 publishing is the change from HTML websites to DHTML Content Management Systems. Another is the Open Source model itself, leveraging user communities for development of the CMS platforms. Content Management Systems include all of the Web 2.0 calling cards – social networking, blogs, forums, wikis, image galleries, [...]

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Warning: Shortcodes are affected by Trac ticket 6444, which should be applied to WordPress 2.5.1. First I touched on the topic in my first impressions of WordPress 2.5. Then I whined a little about the tickets relating to them, and eventually I released my Google Maps Plugin that uses them. In the end, WordPress’s new [...]

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WordPress 2.5 was recently released. I’m not your average WordPress user, I develop plugins, test the upcoming releases, and even contribute to the core when I can. Why do I say all this? I hope it will give you an idea where I’m coming from, as I share my first impressions of WordPress 2.5. Writing [...]

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Recently I convinced my brother to move from a hosted WordPress.com blog that was doing rather well, to a self-hosted WordPress blog. After all, I had the hosting in place, web hosts offer so much nowadays that you can’t use more than a small percent of it. Not to mention he had a chance to [...]

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WordPress has a built-in visual editor that you can use if you want to when writing posts. It has been my experience and that of several of my clients who use WordPress that this visual editor can really mess your post up. It can screw up your perfectly valid code and there is a better [...]

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Does the Bloggers blogging platform affect your commenting? Yes… yes it does. For me at least, I particularly have a negative reaction to seeing a blogger using Blogger/etc. What do I not like about them? Interface: for the Blogger: It’s a bit of a mess, I didn’t like the ‘new’ Blogger control panel (admin interface) [...]

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I’m happy to announce the release of SRG Clean Archives 4.1 for WordPress. Per a few user requests, the plugin is now completely localized using language files created with poEdit. Current available language packs: English (default – built into plugin) French – Français German – Deutsch If you’d like to help by contributing additional language [...]

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I recently upgraded a client’s WordPress blog to version 2.2. She had a slew of plugins which were corrupt and had to be re-installed and re-activated. It was then I discovered that quite a few were not compatible with the latest version of WordPress. So then I consulted the list of compatible plugins at: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Plugin_Compatibility/2.2 [...]

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I was recently asked by a friend to help move her WordPress-run site to a new host. It was not just a simple matter of making a new installation of WP at the new host, but also moving old posts, and retaining the look and structure of the blog. This is something that a few [...]

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Blogs, are inherently read by Bloggers. That’s your target audience, regardless of what people say to me, I believe this. Why? Because they are the ones that interact in the vast realm of the Blogosphere. Their opinions have shaped what we call the Blog world today, be it on any platform or language. Knowing this, [...]

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Too often this happens to everyone. Here’s the scenario – You’re writing your brand new post, you’ve just published it and you’ve put hours of work into it and you’re proud of your efforts. An hour later your host/provider has a server fart and your database and all your hard work goes down the drain. [...]

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A powerful tool in any designer’s toolbox is the ability to quickly and efficiently transform their work into a WordPress template. This ability can be used for design work intended for public release, for client’s who’d like a WordPress blog integrated with their existing design, or simply for your own use. I started working with [...]

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I am pleased to announce that I’ve taken over the development of Shawn Grimes SRG Clean Archives WordPress Plug-in. Plugin description: It’s a simple plug-in designed to display your archive listings in a clean and uniform fashion. Plugin Features: It lists the Month / Year (links to that months archives), the day of the month [...]

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Sure, WordPress has a lot of great features right out of the box, but what about the serious users who are always looking for more? As many of you probably already know, there are tons of user-created plugins available for WordPress. To help you sort out the gems, I’ve compiled a list of the 5 [...]

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So you got into blogging and you’re doing fairly well. Let’s face it, we all want to make money but we aren’t all as high ranked as say Undersigned on Technorati and/or search engines to expect a huge number of hits, but we do get a fair amount of hits and have carved a small [...]

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