WPCandy is back and better than ever. We’ve been working hard for a little over a month now, and we’re extremely proud to present you WPCandy v3. Ever since we launched WPCandy v1 in October 2007, we’ve been one of the top WordPress-dedicated blogs on the internet, bringing you the latest tips, tricks, and hacks. Today we’ve taken the site one huge step further.
Twitter is awesome. It’s a great tool for quick communication and an even more awesome tool for social networking. If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you know I’m quite active and love to tweet (update my status) with funny and random things, but still talk about news on WordPress.
Anyways, Twitter is only fun when you’re following certain people. If you follow boring people who tweet about boring stuff, your timeline gets backed up with boring crap. That’s boring, obviously.
Here’s a list of the Twitter users, that I follow, that tweet most about WordPress news.
Adii is running a special until Sunday, May 25th, where you can purchase 2 Premium News Themes, for the price of one. In spirit of this new special, Adii has also been kind enough to sponsor a mini contest over here at WPCandy. All you gotta do is purchase one of the Premium News Themes, leave a comment on this post and on Adii’s post saying you’ve purchased a theme, and you’ll automatically be entered into the contest. A random winner will be chosen from the participants and will receive An All-Inclusive Premium News Theme Developer’s Package, worth $499.95, for free. Participants also have until Sunday to enter.
It looks like Adobe prefers WordPress over Movable Type. Enough to display it publicly in the sidebar of their Penguin.SWF blog. The question is, why is Adobe using Movable Type if WordPress is clearly the better of the two?
Love to tweak your site’s theme while on the go, but don’t want to mess with the live copy? Learn how to install a local copy of WordPress on a USB drive. You geek.
I had a few minutes at Starbucks before a client meeting yesterday so I decided to tackle the next plugin on my idea list. With the Login Logo plugin, you change the logo on WordPress’s login screen to an image of your choice via a simple options screen. Read more…
As you might know, Weblog Tools Collection just started their WordPress Plugin Competition 2.5.
The WordPress Plugin Competition is in it’s third incarnation targeting the 2.5 release of WordPress.
Last year the contest generated some great plugins like Who Sees Ads, WordPress Automatic Upgrade, MyDashboard, and the grand prize winner, OneClick.
Now that it’s happening again this year, the WPCandy team thought about entering the competition, winning the prize and giving it to our readers!
The deadline is in two months, giving us enough time to create a plugin or two, and enter it into the competition. If you have a plugin idea and would like to enter it into the competition but don’t know how to develop it, leave a comment and we’ll vote on the best ones.
If your plugin gets chosen, we’ll give you credit inside the code and with a post here linking back to your blog. Remember though, your idea can’t be something that already exist! It has to be totally new and of course, it’s going to be GPL.
In the next few weeks, I’ll post another update covering which plugin(s) we’ll be entering in the competition.
A few weeks ago I posted a list of 30 improvements I’d like to see in WordPress 2.6. Item number one? Customizable color schemes - possibly with COLOURlovers integration. Two weeks later, I’ve found a plugin that hits the nail on the head. The Admin CSS Designer Tool is an amazing new plugin that introduces the ability to change your site’s admin colors with built-in COLOURlovers functionality. Looking at the video demo on Ozh’s blog, it looks like a pretty functional plugin. Here’s what we think. Read more…
By Sumesh from Blog Creativity, a blog about blogging tips, usability in design, SEO and WordPress (theme/plugin reviews, hacks and WordPress optimization).
WordPress is often praised for its inherent SEO capabilities. The option to use post slugs, clean and valid xHTML (mostly) etc. are some of the reasons for the praise.
However, anyone who inspects a WordPress theme closely will notice that there are several dozen weak points in WordPress themes (in the default theme, freely available themes and even paid themes). Some of these are caused by WordPress core functions (which were developed 5 years ago, since when SEO has evolved), while others are due to designers not willing to brave the choppy waters of SEO experimentation.
Modifying the core functions require extensive hacking (which can be done with proper tutorials), but the changes will be erased during WordPress upgrades. So, the subject of this post shall be mostly about those mistakes caused by faulty theme coding.
In this series of posts, you can read on what the SEO mistakes are, and how to solve them.
Note: The technical aspects of the solution (like code required for various modifications) is beyond the scope of this post. Michael tells me that WPCandy readers are mostly capable of doing such tweaks by themselves, but I will be glad to troubleshoot your problems (if you run into any) at the support forum at my blog.
