I recently had the chance to work on a multi lingual WordPress site for a client in Canada, and I want to tell you about an excellent plugin which will help you to keep multiple versions of your content in different languages. My client is based in Canada, so he needed a site which was…
I use Mailchimp to send out my weekly newsletter and numerous one-off email messages (I can hear you groaning already he’s on the sell again ) I thought I would write a quick blog post saying why I use this over other systems such as Aweber or Contant Contact, Free For First 2000 Signups I…
One of my favourite techie plugins is serverbuddy. This excellent little plugin collects a load of information from your hosting and WordPress config What Does It Do? Serverbuddy collects a series of server configurations from your hosting setup and makes them available for you to review them. This is very handy if you are troubleshooting setup configuration…
One of the biggest problems with plugins in my opinion, is that they are not certified in any way. It is hard to tell what is a good plugin, and what will cause you issues. The majority of crashed sites I am called upon to fix are caused by plugin problems. The good news is…
This one is for the techies out there, WP-Overview is an excellent plugin which give you an overview of the memory usage and configuration of your site. This in turn helps you to diagnose any problem you may be having. What It Does Once you have installed WP_Overview it give you a new dashboard widget…
This time last year I wrote a post on a doing a new years blog tidy up, you can read it here http://wpdude.com/year-blog-tidy/. I think the post still stands and I want to update it by telling you about a new plugin I have been alerted to. Plugins Garbage Collector The plugin I have found is…
Here’s a very hand little plugin for you, it’s called widget logic http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/ and it lets you control where or when a particular sidebar widget is displayed by adding some conditional logic to the widget config. WTF Give me Some Examples It’s probably easier to use examples to explain what the plugin can do: You…
One of my favourite tools as a WordPress techie is a tiny plugin called MY FTP, is has helped me too many times to remember, I thought a quick post on this excellent utility would be a good idea.
Here’s a screen cast presentation demonstrating the security plugin login lockdown. This is one of my recommended security plugins This is my first attempt at screen casts to demonstrate plugins, please let me know how this format works for you. About Login LockDown Security plugin to stop mullitple unauthorised access attemps Download from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/login-lockdown/ Image…
WP-Malwatch plugin can help you spot hack attacks
