If you are using a blog hosted at WordPress.org your options for embedding videos a pretty narrow. There is no way for you to change the size of the video to better fit your post or theme. On the other hand, the outlook is much brighter for those hosting their WordPress blog on their own […]
Posts are a huge part of WordPress. After all, WordPress blog is defined by the content of your posts. That makes adding a new post an important task to learn. Even though WordPress is famous for being easy to use, just setting off to add posts to a new blog can raise quite a few […]
One of the things missing from many otherwise great WordPress Themes is a Theme Options Page. This is especially true of PLR WordPress themes. They seldom have this feature and it make it hard to compete with sellers offering full options pages. Adding an options page to the WordPress admin is a great way to […]
With Smart Phones and Tablets taking the role of primary Internet provider for more and more people each year it makes a lot of sense to have a mobile site for your business. This can involve the creation of a dedicated mobile Web site, an additional expense. Another problem is the scripts used to identify […]
WordPress is certainly the most popular CMS around. But is it the best? WordPress has a huge following for many reasons. Themes, plugins and the WordPress Community are just three of those reasons. These are also the major advantages of using WordPress as a CMS. Changing the look of every other major CMS platform requires […]
There are plenty of reasons you might want to create a WordPress plugin of your own. Having your own WordPress plugin is a quick way to establish yourself or brand as a force in WordPress. Of course there is the potential for profit. There are thousands of dollars made on plugins on a regular basis. […]
One of the best ways to learn something new is to see how it is done and follow along on your own. That is the format of this series of how to videos on creating your first WordPress plugin. Author Pippin Williamson creates WordPress plugins like Easy Digitital Downloads. He is also a great tutor […]
In this, the second part of the How To Create A WordPress Plugin Video series you learn how to structure the empty plugin frame you created in video one. The video starts by showing you how to add a folder for your plugin to the plugins folder in wp-content. This is very useful if you […]