Internationalization, or i18n, is the process of developing your plugin or theme so it can easily be translated into other languages. And since WordPress is used all over the world, it’s important to ensure your code can be easily translated into whatever language is needed. This is the seventh post in our WordPress Development for Intermediate Users series. This series …
John James Jacoby Publishes 35 Part Tweetstorm on WordPress Leadership, Community, and Economics
John James Jacoby, lead developer of bbPress and BuddyPress, published a 35 part tweetstorm sharing his thoughts on leadership in the WordPress project, the community, and the WordPress economy. A tweetstorm is a series of tweets linked together in chronological order around a particular topic. There are a number of useful nuggets of wisdom in his tweets that I think …
XML-RPC and Why It’s Time to Remove it for WordPress Security
From the very beginnings of WordPress, there have been features that allow you to interact remotely with your site. These same features build your community by allowing other bloggers to reference your posts. At the core of all of this is XML-RPC. XML-RPC, or XML Remote Procedure Call, powers these features in WordPress: Connecting to your site(s) with your smartphone Trackbacks …
Easily Add, Remove, and Rearrange Columns With The Admin Columns Plugin
If you find yourself wanting more control over the columns on the posts, post types, pages, media, comments, links, and users administration screens, take a look at the Admin Columns plugin. Admin Columns, developed by Codepress, is a free plugin that is actively installed on more than 60K sites that enables administrators to add, remove, and rearrange columns. Each column type has its own …
An Introvert’s Guide to Surviving WordCamps and Making it Out Alive
Going to WordCamp Europe just isn’t worth it. There are too many people, the commute is huge (Vancouver to Vienna!) and the whole trip is just way more expensive than it’s actually worth. At least, that’s what I thought when I was initially prodded to go. I’m ashamed to admit I almost didn’t go this year because all of the …
Q&A: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About WordPress Multisite Answered
If you’re a keen follower of this blog, you’ll have noticed my series of posts on WordPress Multisite a few weeks ago. And if you’re learning about Multisite, you may have signed up to my Academy course on the subject. The comments, questions and discussions that the courses and posts have generated have been awesome, to say the least. Dozens of …
Google Removes Dennis Cooper’s 14-Year-Old Blog, Illustrates Dangers of Using a Publishing Service
Fans of artist Dennis Cooper are concerned about Google’s mysterious removal of his 14-year-old blog approximately two weeks ago. Cooper, a novelist and performance artist known for his controversial subject material, fears that Google may be censoring his work but hasn’t received an explanation. After contacting Google via multiple channels, Cooper received a statement about the blog being in “violation …
8 Completely Free Ways to Steal WPMU DEV’s WordPress SuperPowers
When I started out in WordPress I was broke. Not just broke, broke-ass. Newly married, new baby, $6.57 in the bank, no paycheck coming in and starting a new online business. I needed to start and grow a site. I needed the support of a community. I needed it all at top quality. And I needed it all completely for …
New Plugin Adds Featured Audio to WordPress Posts and Pages
This week Nick Halsey published his new Featured Audio plugin to the WordPress Plugin Directory. Halsey, a WordPress core contributor and a musician, created the plugin to provide a solution that would associate audio files with posts in the same way that WordPress supports featured images out of the box. The plugin works with any WordPress theme to display featured …
How to Add a Hello Bar to Your WordPress Site (and Why Everyone is Doing It)
Want to boost your conversion rates? That’s what hello bars are all about. Whether you want to add email subscribers, advertise special deals, drive traffic to a landing page, or make a site-wide announcement, hello bars get the job done. What are hello bars? Hello bars, more generically called notification bars, are the bars added to either the top or …









