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Improving your workflow with DesktopServer

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Al Davis

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March 31, 2015

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If you’re a WordPress developer, you know that there are lots of helpful tools out there to choose from. In this article, we are going to take a look at ServerPress.com’s DesktopServer—a tool designed to help develop sites in a local environment, quicker and easier than ever. Launched in 2011 by ServerPress.com’s founder Stephen Carnam, DesktopServer has become a popular product amongst web developers looking for different ways to set up local development environments to reduce time on the initial setup of each WordPress site they’re working on. Because, after all, isn’t that the goal of every developer to save time […]

This Week In WordPress: 03/30/2015

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Doc Pop

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News

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March 30, 2015

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Just in case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the latest happenings from this past week. If you have a news tip you’d like to share, write us at [email protected]. News Highlights: Writing 101: WordPress’s Writing 101 returns this April. Sign up and join the daily writing challenge. WP Engine raises funding: Why North Bridge invested $25m in a WordPress business. Sites block in Pakistan: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has started temporarily (hopefully) blocking all WordPress sites. RevSlider exploit leaves thousands of sites hacked: “Cybercriminals have been leveraging a vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin to redirect the visitors of thousands […]

3 of the best free ad management plugins for WordPress

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March 30, 2015

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To find more great plugins, check out Torque’s free eBook, The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Plugins. Download it here.  A popular way to monetize a WordPress blog is through display ads. These usually include banner ads provided by affiliate networks or display advertising platforms (such as Google Adsense). If you have one or two ads on your site, it may be easy to insert the ad with a text widget. but if you have multiple ads on your site, it can be difficult to manage without a dedicated ad management plugin. In this article, I’ll show you three WordPress plugins […]

Staying safe and DRY with register_meta()

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March 27, 2015

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I know this is probably going to upset, but this is the best way to save an input from a form to a post meta field in WordPress:  update_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘_slug_number_field’, $_POST[ ‘number_field’ ] ); And yes, on its own that line of code is a terrible, no good idea. Most likely, you mentally rewrote it to something like this: if ( isset( $_POST[ ‘number_field’ ] ) && 0 < absint( $_POST[ ‘number_field’ ] ) ) {   update_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘_slug_number_field’, (int) $_POST[ ‘number_field’ ]  ); } Before I discuss how to make that first line of code acceptable, I […]

Using taxonomies and ontologies to improve blog search and discovery

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Community

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March 26, 2015

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One of the challenges around reaching a larger audience is that potential readers might use a variety of words to search for the same thing. Semantic processing techniques that leverage taxonomies and ontologies are helping to create rich metadata that can help improve readership or make it easier for people to find relevant information on a blog more efficiently. The WordPress platform has plugins used for custom taxonomy features which makes it easier to create tags and labels for content. But much richer use of semantic processing techniques are available from various tools that can be leveraged in house or in […]

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