Hints and Tips For Wordpress – Free Plugins – Free Themes
I have been creating a lot of image and photo rich wordpress websites lately and using jQuery to display galleries and rotating photo shows.
These sites are really awesome but, the galleries can take a long time to load and the overall visitor effect can be disappointing.
After a bit of searching I found that it is [...]
Scheduling posts is a a good thing to do if you have lots of information to share or if you run a membership site and you want to drip content out to them.
However, you want to give your members a sneak peek of what’s coming up – to increase the anticipation. Here’s a simple function [...]
In an earlier post,I gave an example of how to set up a custom login form and add a short code to display the login form anywhere on your site.
I’ve been asked to demonstrate the the form in action… so here it is:
As we add more and more functionality to our Wordpress Websites, memory usage on our webservers is becoming an issue.
With some webhosts, it is possible to increase the amount of memory that is allocated to run PHP. In this article, I’ll share how website administrators may increase the memory allocation for their Wordpress website.
Please proceed [...]
When creating a membership site with Wordpress, it is often desirable to have a Login form that reflects the themeing of your site – not the standard WP-Login form.
There are some excellent plugins around that give a lot of flexibility around the login form (my fave is Theme My Login) however, with the updates coming [...]
Wishlist Products have released Version 2.3 of Wishlist Member. This release addresses a number of bugs and makes Wishlist Member work correctly with Wordpress 3.0.
I haven’t had a lot of time to play with the new version of Wishlist Member 2.3 and I’ve seen some issues being listed on the Insiders Forum, so I do [...]
Recently, I added author profile blocks to the bottom of my blog posts. This was inspired by advise from the team at Wishlist Products and after I saw their author info boxes.
There are many benefits to incorporating an Authors info box on your site – the least of which is having guest authors that you [...]
RSS is a powerful way to deliver content to your community. However, there is a lot of concern about the security of members only content when using RSS Feeds.
One of the features of Wishlist Member is a Secure RSS Feed – but I really didn’t understand what that meant or how it protected my content…. [...]
Following on from yesterdays post, I decided that a custom login box would be appropriate to include on a website.
Thanks to Insite Website Design, I found something that would work nicely and I’ve extended this to include a way to easily add this to your sidebar without messing too much with the code.
The code is [...]
When using the Wishlist Member sidebar widget, the Register link goes to the standard Registration page for your wordpress website.
This really isn’t a great thing mainly because when someone clicks on that register link – they’re interested in becoming a member… and this is an opportunity for us to encourage our visitor to join the [...]