Topic: WordPress

I am quite involved with WordPress platform and use it both privately and for building commercial solutions. I wrote a book on WordPress development, and authored a number of articles, plugins and themes. This is the archive of my WordPress related articles.

Highlights:

What should we write about next – WordPress plugin

Dec 16th, 2011

After a long time here is another plugin from our brewery. This one is really handy. "What should we write about next" allows your users to quickly leave feedback at the end of your posts. The idea behind this plugin is very simple - allow your visitors to leave a quick feedback about what would they want to read next on your site.This improves interaction, gives you topic ideas and makes your visitors feel useful. It's a win-win plugin.

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ManageWP has a fresh look, pre-orders start on Tuesday

Dec 2nd, 2011

I am happy to announce that we just launched a new look for ManageWP.The new look will be followed by the start of pre-order this Tuesday, December 6th. Sign up now to receive a 30% off your subscription prices during the pre-order period.

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How to redirect WordPress homepage to admin/login form

Nov 29th, 2011

If you are building a WordPress site where all the action is happening in the back-end, you may not need the front-end at all. In this case you'd want all visitors coming to the website to go directly to the login/registration form. Here is a simple way to redirect all front-end requests to the back-end. 1. Edit your theme's index.php and add these two lines to the top:header("Location: ".get_admin_url()); exit();2.

Simple but possibly lucrative WordPress related business idea

Nov 21st, 2011

If you are a web development company specialized in WordPress development and can't find leads for development here is a business idea I will call 'WordPress for Startups'. Subscribe to updates from sites that promote new startups. Since WordPress is the most widely spread web publishing platform on the earth, chance is that they will need a WordPress plugin that will bring their application closer to WordPress users.

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Smart Youtube hits 1,000,000 downloads

Oct 7th, 2011

I am very happy that one of my first WordPress plugins hit 1,000,000 downloads this week. Smart Youtube allows users to easily embed Youtube videos to WordPress blogs and is one of the most popular WordPress plugins of all time. It is followed by SEO Smart Links with nearly half a million of downloads and SEO Friendly Images with 368,000 downloads. The combined downloads of all my WordPress plugins are now at 2,500,000. And I am only getting warmed up with WordPress ;)