Archive for WordPress

Free WordPress Theme Available – Quick-Vid

Posted by Matt on September 2, 2010 with 0 Comments

I’ve been working with Brad to get a free WordPress theme our for a while. We thought this would be a good way for iThemes to give something back to the WordPress community (along with our free plugins, core contributions, and codex additions). I must say, the process of adding a theme to WordPress Extend [...]

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Latest Tweet Plugin Now on WP Extend

Posted by Matt on June 22, 2010 with 0 Comments

In an earlier post I showed how to get your latest tweet on your site without a plugin. It has been an extremely popular post, but for some folks. it was just over their head. I have had quite a few people email me asking to make a simple plugin to accomplish the same task, [...]

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Upgrading to WordPress 3.0

Posted by Matt on June 18, 2010 with 0 Comments

Yesterday’s release of WordPress version 3.0 came with a ton of great new features. As a developer, I am really excited about some of the new capabilities. There is no doubt that a lot is changing. In fact, one of the first things you will notice after you update is that even the dashboard is [...]

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Latest Tweet without a Plugin

Posted by Matt on January 7, 2010 with 10 Comments

I earlier this week, one of our clients wanted a better solution to getting his latest tweet from Twitter than simply using an RSS widget it WordPress to grab the feed. We could have simply used a plugin, but this site is HUGE, and we didn’t want to depend on Joe Pluginmaker to keep his [...]

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5 Useful WordPress Template Tags

Posted by Matt on December 21, 2009 with 0 Comments

Even if you work with the absolute best in premium WordPress themes, you will undoubtedly find that you need some additional/different functions than the theme has build it.  A great resource that is built in to WordPress is template tags.  A template tag is basically just a way to display information.  Below, I have compiled [...]

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WordPress 101

Posted by Matt on December 16, 2009 with 0 Comments

Everyone has to start somewhere. It really wasn’t all that long ago that I was starting out on WordPress, and didn’t know a thing.  Even worse was a few months in to it, when I knew just enough to be dangerous. 

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