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WordPress Links For February

Feb 11, 2012   //   by grwebguy   //   Learning Wordpress  //  No Comments

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/wordpress/wordpress-plugins-2012/

Round of plugins covering  optimization, forms, comments, backup, posts, security, design, media, ecomerce, SEO, Social, marketing and more.

http://winkpress.com/membership-plugin

Listing of membership plugins for WordPress.

http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2012/01/27/limiting-visibility-posts-username/

 

 

Learning WordPress Day Three

Nov 17, 2011   //   by grwebguy   //   Learning Wordpress  //  No Comments

Activated Akismet Plugin.

Boy, those spammers find you fast.

WordPress Learning Links:

 

Learning WordPress Day Two

Nov 6, 2011   //   by grwebguy   //   Learning Wordpress  //  No Comments

So, in between posts, my site got hacked. Don’t know if it was weak permissions, or one of the light cms’s that I was using.

My restore was kinda funky, so I reinstalled WP, and pulled in the 2 posts from the first install.

So day two:

  • Install plugin BackWPup
  • Removed Comments from “pages”, individually (turn on discussions in screen options, and uncheck allow comments)
  • Made the “home” showcase/li>
  • added twitter search to rss (to be replaced by a real twitter widget someday)
  • Joined the wpgr.org google group

 

Links of the week:

Learning WordPress Day One

Nov 6, 2011   //   by grwebguy   //   Learning Wordpress  //  1 Comment

First Day:

  1. Installed WordPress from Scriptaculous
  2. Changed to Dark version of theme
  3. Made a blog page, and moved blog posts off home page
  4. removed “powered by wordpress”(appearance, editor,Footer)
  5. changed permalink structure /%post_id%/%postname%/
  6. removed oversized image

Coming up:

  • Accessiblity For WordPress
  • SEO Tweaks
  • Customize theme
  • Create theme
  • Find good video plugins

Welcome to grWebGuy’s Experiment

Nov 6, 2011   //   by grwebguy   //   Learning Wordpress  //  No Comments

All the cool kids on http://grwebdev.org/ are saying the WordPress is the go-to CMS.

I’ve been using gpEasy for billcreswell.com, ‘cuz it’s simple, uses no database, and works in a IIS php site as well as it does in site hosted with Apache, like this host, arvixe. Templating is simple, too.

I also played with GetSimple for Captionwire.com, and liked the html5 theme it came with.

So, I’m turning to the web, and to http://wpgr.org to learn how to mod wordpress.

I no desiger, but I do like to make sure it’s responsive to a smartphone screen, because it’s really begun to bother me to either get a dumbed down site, with limited content, or a full screen that’s hard to read (like a certain theatre chain in my hood). Especially evil is being redirected to a mobile site automatically, without retaining the link I was trying to achieve!