The best thing about WordPress is that it can be used to power a wide variety of websites. Be it an e-commerce site, a portfolio, a blog, or magazine site — WordPress can handle it all. So, what if you wish to run a job board using WordPress? Is it possible? Of course it is! By using the right tools for the right job, you can run a job board directly via WordPress. In this post, I will be taking a look at one such tool: the WordPress Job Board plugin. Introduction WordPress Job Board plugin, as the name suggests, […]
Plugged In: A Review of the Official Twitter Plugin
While there have already existed a good number of WordPress plugins that can help you incorporate Twitter functionality in your website, none of them were officially supported by Twitter. Few days back, Twitter came up with its own WordPress plugin that intends to help users optimize their websites and blogs for the Twitterati. So what does the official Twitter plugin bring to the table? In this short post, I tried to get a glimpse of just that. Basically, the new Twitter plugin does nothing new, but instead tries to offer a one-stop solution for Twitter integration within WordPress websites. As […]
Getting Started with the Piklist Framework
If you’ve been developing WordPress for a while, chances are you find yourself repeating the same code over and over. Creating custom post types, taxonomies, meta boxes, and generally structuring your content can all be broken down into reusable chunks. And that’s what the Piklist framework does. It gives you access to development shortcuts for getting your site off the ground. What You Get with Piklist Piklist makes common tasks much easier with a few useful functions and code snippets. For instance, Piklist gives you a new function to hook into when creating custom post types and taxonomies making robust settings […]
An Insider’s Look at Ninja Demo
The problem is fairly common. You’re a WordPress developer that builds themes or plugins and you want to offer users visiting your site a simple demo so they can explore your product a bit. You can set up a dummy account somewhere, install your product, create a user with limited capabilities and add some dummy content. But what if you want users to each have their own sandbox so they can add and delete content without permanently effecting the site? What if you want to give instructions only to these users? How on earth can you prevent spambots from polluting […]
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