Category: WordPress as CMS

How to localize a Hebrew website’s Dashboard with WordPress Multisite

Rebecca Markowitz | November 15, 2011 | 1 Comment

Many of our clients request English and Hebrew websites and ever since WordPress 3.0 made WordPress Multisite a breeze to install, we've been using it so that clients can manage all their sites from one Dashboard.

Logically, our clients want the Hebrew website to have a Hebrew Dashboard. However, out of the box, WordPress Multisite defaults

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WordPress turns 7. It was great then, it’s awesome now

Miriam Schwab | May 28, 2010 | 0 Comments

Our little baby is turning 7 – WordPress, my how you’ve grown! But the truth is, I remember when I first started using WordPress back in 2007, and it was pretty good then too. I think that shows how WordPress has strong foundations, even at the beginning. When I first started ... View Post

How to add styles and buttons to the WYSIWYG Visual Editor in WordPress

Rebecca Markowitz | May 16, 2010 | 5 Comments

The Visual Editor in WordPress is great for clients. It lets them feel comfortable adding content with Word-like buttons that they are familiar with. But, what happens when they want more font styles? Although you can find plugins that add Quicktags to the HTML view Editor, such as Oren Yomtov's Post Editor Buttons Plugin, I ... View Post

WordPress as CMS: 4 content block plugins with WYSIWYG editors

Rebecca Markowitz | February 23, 2010 | 14 Comments

We are constantly trying to find easier and better ways to create manageable blocks of content for clients. Widgets Widgets are only helpful up to a certain point since there isn't a great plugin for a WYSIWYG visual editor that I'm aware of. The Rich Text Widget and WYSIWYG Text Widget are buggy and ... View Post

How to Customize Multiple Search Result Pages in WordPress

Rebecca Markowitz | July 23, 2009 | 3 Comments

In the previous post, we discussed how to hack the search function in Wordpress to have an additional search form that would search subcategories. Now that you have 2 or more search forms on your site, you might need to customize the search results. Thanks to this solution, I learned how to ... View Post

How to Hack the WordPress Search Function: Search Categories and Child Categories

Rebecca Markowitz | July 21, 2009 | 22 Comments

Recently, we had a client who wanted a special recipe search. There were 2 ways to extend the search functionality - manually or dynamically. 1. Search One or More Categories Manually If we want to search one category, we could have used this solution which lets you manually add category numbers to the search function: [Replace ... View Post

How to rename widgetized sidebars in WordPress

Rebecca Markowitz | November 20, 2008 | 2 Comments

You can manage multiple sidebar widgets in WordPress. To do so, you go to the Widgets page in the Admin, and select the Sidebar you want to manage. If you have 1 widgetized sidebar, the name "Sidebar 1" is not a big deal for managing it. But what if you have 5 or ... View Post

13 plugins that will make WordPress into a CMS

Miriam Schwab | January 14, 2008 | 38 Comments

Recently I posted about why I think WordPress is a CMS. This led to a pretty interesting discussion in the comments on the topic, ... View Post

ZDNet says WordPress not clunky, but also not CMS

Miriam Schwab | December 21, 2007 | 20 Comments

Larry Dignan over at ZDNet writes about the media's relationship with CMS systems, particularly his own past experiences with custom-built CMS systems. He says that "when it comes to ease of use, a blog platform beats or [sic] average CMS hands down." So he ... View Post