Author Page for Miriam Schwab
Miriam is the friendly CEO of illuminea, a WordPress design and development agency. Miriam is a huge fan of WordPress and has been using it for over five years now. In addition, Miriam and her team have been organizing the local Israeli WordCamp conferences for the past few years.
LTR alignment icon added to Hebrew and Arabic WordPress in version 3.4
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
... View PostData portability and data serialization in WordPress
Over at illuminea, we’ve been migrating WordPress sites for years. So we thought we’d seen it all when it came to WordPress migration. And yet, recently we encountered an issue that we had never dealt with before, that puts a snag in the ease with which you can move WordPress sites: data
... View PostWhat happened to the “search engines blocked” notification in WordPress 3.2?
WordPress site owners have an option under Settings > Privacy to keep their site open to visitors, but block search engines. Very handy when developing a site, or managing a private site that you don’t want the world to see, but you don’t want to have to deal with logins either. We often use that ... View PostThe ultimate guide to embedding HTML and iframes in WordPress – part 2
Recently, I wrote about how WordPress users can easily add media like YouTube videos to posts and pages by just inserting the URL of the page the media is on. But that functionality was limited to sites that are oEmbed providers. ... View PostHow to exclude multiple categories from your WordPress feed
I was searching desperately for a solution for creating a custom WordPress feed that excluded two categories that would be used to offer a unique Feedburner feed to readers. I found posts that explained how to exclude categories globally, but that wasn't relevant since these categories still needed to be available to readers ... View PostHow to install WordPress without a domain name
This is one of those life-changing, super-awesome tips that I wish I had known about years ago. Note that this only works on Windows, and I've only tested it on Windows 7.
Here's the scenario: you've got a client who has a website up and running on their domain name, www.mysite.com. You are creating a
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How Akismet prevented my Mom from leaving her first WordPress comment, and some anti-spam alternatives