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 ...
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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 ...
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Today,
WordPress Garage turns one year old. Hasn't our little baby grown up fast? Blow out the candles...
It is exactly one year ago today that I wrote my first post here. It was about
Jerome's Keywords Plugin, which was a popular ...
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Recently I posted about why I think
WordPress is a CMS. This led to a pretty interesting discussion in
the comments on the topic, ...
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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 ...
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Sorry for the confusing title, but there is an issue that we face over and over when using
WordPress as a CMS, and have not been able to solve. When we are using WordPress as a CMS, our Blog page doesn't pick up the current_page_item class and ...
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Since I discovered the
Page Links To plugin, it's become one of the plugins that I use most on my sites, particularly those where I'm using WordPress to create a CMS. I've reviewed it already (see the review
here), but it seems that ...
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This is something I'm definitely going to use on client sites.
This plugin allows you to add whatever you want to the Dashboard through PHP and HTML and allows you to even add Sidebar Widgets. You may also wipe the entire dashboard or individually remove some of the more irritating sections like the Dev news,
...
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Christian Montoya over at the
Montoya Herald says he understands why many web developers use WordPress as a CMS system instead of the many other systems that are not blogging platforms, but CMS systems themselves.
All of these CMS’s have rather complicated administration interfaces, tend to be difficult to theme, and
...
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