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:

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 ;)

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SEO Smart Links with Network feature

Jul 10th, 2011

I've released an update to SEO Smart Links Premium plugin which now allows users to have centralized location for their custom keywords. It's very simple to setup. Just upload a CSV file with your custom keywords to any location and copy the URL in SEO Smart Links settings. Set the time of the day you want it to synchronize and the plugin will pull in the latest keywords every day automatically.

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Enhancing WordPress security with two-factor authentication plugins

Jun 23rd, 2011

After a recent security issue with couple of popular WordPress plugins, we are again reminded that hackers never sleep and we should not forget to additionally protect our precious sites with available technology. I found three plugins that add a second level of protection when logging into your WordPress blog, either through mobile apps, email, SMS or some other way.

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Check if the post is older than X days before placing ads

Jun 5th, 2011

Ads are part of our life on Internet nowadays and many webmasters use them to make money. It became common, for me at least, to land on a page 'littered' with ads, and I instinctively bounce off although the content might have been good. I already posted my opinion on why you should keep your homepage ad-free and here is another tip for how to keep your articles appear ad-free to new visitors.

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ManageWP has a brand new design

May 27th, 2011

Although we are working very hard on introducing new features to our flagship service ManageWP.com, we still found the time to perform a complete redesign of the site. You can see the results in the image below (click to open the site). ManageWP.com - New design We hope you like it, comments & critique welcome.