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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

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

| 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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How to embed a .wmv file in WordPress

| November 7, 2011 | 8 Comments

A client recently asked us how they could embed .wmv files in their WordPress site so that it plays in a video player. Interestingly, we're so used to working with video websites like YouTube and Vimeo which allow easy embedding by just pasting

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How to remove the link to parent pages when using wp_list_pages in WordPress navigation

| July 8, 2010 | 22 Comments
Recently I was working on a client's WordPress website and he made an interesting request, that I am actually surprised we don't see more often. He wanted the top links on his navigation bar to not be live links, and only the sub-pages should actually link to pages on his site. In this case the ... View Post

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

| 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

Ad Manager WordPress plugin OIO Publisher Review

| May 27, 2010 | 4 Comments
In love! In love with a WordPress plugin! No, they're not paying me to say that, although I do have a coupon you could use if you feel like getting the plugin: OIO Publisher(affiliate link). I've been searching for a no-frills, easy to use ad management solution for WordPress for ages, and never ... View Post

How to Override the Slug or Page Permalink in WordPress

| March 18, 2010 | 8 Comments
The Problem: Recently, one of our clients wanted to change the slug, or permalink, from "about-2", back to just plain ol' "about".  I tried changing the slug from the "quick edit" mode. I tried to Edit the Permalink from the Post Page. No luck, it kept reverting back to about-2.  After doing a few ... View Post

WordPress as CMS: 4 content block plugins with WYSIWYG editors

| 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
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