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How Akismet prevented my Mom from leaving her first WordPress comment, and some anti-spam alternatives

| March 15, 2013 | 12 Comments
Last week our agency launched a shiny new custom site for an academic think tank. I showed my mom the new site. “It’s so nice Miriam!” said my ever-objective Mom. She dutifully scrolled up and down the home ... View Post

Join us at WordCamp Jerusalem 2013: the official WordPress conference in Israel!

| February 14, 2013 | 2 Comments
I know it's been used before, but I find it hilarious. I love bad jokes. Okay, here goes: How many WordPress developers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Answer: None! There's a plugin for that. (In my mind...BWAHAAHAHAHA!! Almost as good as freshly squeezed orange ... View Post

GenerateWP: Code on the go with reliable code for WordPress Custom Post Types, Taxonomies and more

| January 31, 2013 | 5 Comments
If you're adventurous WordPress developers like we are at illuminea, then you're probably a fan of shortcuts. I'm talking about shortcuts that help you save up on development time without compromising on quality. In our case, we're referring to the code's quality and clarity. That's why I'd like to introduce you to GenerateWP. View Post

Hack: How to use Jetpack’s ShareDaddy plugin without connecting to WordPress.com

| January 30, 2013 | 9 Comments
ShareDaddy was a great social sharing plugin. And then it was integrated into Auttomatic's Jetpack which required connecting our clients' sites to a WordPress.com account which was majorly awkward... since our clients don't have a WordPress.com account (you can read more about our feelings on Jetpack here). So, we went off to ... View Post

How to list WordPress Users (Editors and Authors) by role and then alphabetical by last name

| January 9, 2013 | 0 Comments
For one of our clients, we needed to list all the users on the site, first by role, and then within that role, alphabetized by last name. Each user needed to display the author's name (First Name, Last Name), the author's photo (using the User Photo plugin), and some author meta information, as follows: Editors:... View Post

HOWTO: Add a custom style to any WordPress widget with a plugin

| August 12, 2012 | 1 Comment
The Problem

On a WordPress site that we recently built, there were several text widgets in use - one for About Us, one for a Facebook Social Plugin, and one for a newsletter signup form.

The problem was that we wanted each one of these text widget areas to be styled slightly differently - some with

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Jetpack WordPress plugin – The new comments and image carousel features almost make me want to use it

| July 22, 2012 | 7 Comments

WordPress.com has limited flexibility and functionality in many ways. For example, you can't add plugins, and you have to sign up to a paid upgrade in order to use ads. Even so, many of us who use and create self-hosted WordPress sites (with WordPress.org), have some serious FOMO when it comes to some of the built-in

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Managing multiple WordPress sites: A review of ManageWP, WPRemote and InfiniteWP (my fave)

| July 6, 2012 | 24 Comments

Over at illuminea.com, we manage over many WordPress websites as part of our WordPress hosting and maintenance service. All of these sites need version upgrades, plugin upgrades, and the rare theme upgrade (since we never use the default WP themes like TwentyEleven). Amazingly, there are 3 services

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LTR alignment icon added to Hebrew and Arabic WordPress in version 3.4

| July 2, 2012 | 2 Comments

When WordPress 3.4 was released a few weeks ago, many posts were written reviewing the great new features that the release included, like embeddable tweets, linkable photo captions, and theme options. However, one new feature that was added in 3.4 was barely mentioned anywhere, and we only know about it due to

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5 Useful Tips for Gravity Forms

| June 27, 2012 | 4 Comments

We are huge fans of Gravity Forms (so obviously we're an affiliate), a premium WordPress plugin for creating forms, because nerdily enough, it actually makes creating forms kinda fun. But most importantly, Gravity Forms makes it really easy for

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