What are Custom Taxonomies in WordPress?
Taxonomy is a common word in biology. In science, it’s a hierarchy of terms used to classify almost everything. Wikipedia has a full explanation here.…
The Ultimate Taxonomy Plugin for WordPress
“Taxonomy” is a confusing word and one that many people don’t like. It’s hard to remember, it contains the word “tax”, and it sounds like…
5 Best User Permissions Plugins for WordPress
WordPress is a great platform and has surprisingly flexible permissions. However, by default, the permissions system keeps to the WordPress philosophy of “Decisions, not options”.…
Using the WP Event Manager WordPress Plugin
Gone are the days when an individual needed to knoq coding to make a working website. Just your enthusiasm, along with the availability of plugins…
How to Log In to Drupal Without the Login Block
This is actually quite a common question from our students. They start building their Drupal site. Then they go to work with their blocks or…
How to Create a Custom Page Template in WordPress
WordPress allows you to create custom layouts for all of your pages. These custom layouts are called templates. For example, if you have a web…
Move A WordPress Site From Localhost To Production
So you have everything ready for launch and your site is sitting on your local computer. You’re ready to move WordPress to the “real” server…
Getting Started With Drupal’s Webform Module
One of our club members asked us how to create a survey form in Drupal 7. They wanted to achieve this without a need for…
Node Option Premium: full Drupal content for specific users only
Node Option Premium is a module for people who want to encourage visitors to register on their site. Node Option Premium lets you show a…
Wysija – Automatically Send Newsletters from WordPress
Wysija is a newsletter program that will let you send out newsletters from your WordPress admin. Wysija is easy to use and allows you to design…
10 Drupal Commercial Theme Companies
Where do you go when you’re in the market for a great Drupal theme? There are over 1000 free themes on Drupal.org, but that is…
Automatically Backup WordPress Sites to Dropbox
Backing up your site is good. Automatically backing up your site is better. Automatically backing up your site to somewhere easy to use like Dropbox.com…
A First Look at the Twenty Twelve WordPress Theme
Starting in 2010, the WordPress team started to annually release a new, default theme for WordPress sites. This year they are cutting close to their…
Wordfence Protects Your WordPress Site From Hacks
WordPress is a very secure and well-coded platform. However, simply because it is so enormously popular, a lot of people try to create hacks and…
WordPress Google Analytics Plugin by Yoast
Are you wondering which words attract visitors to your site? Do you want to know why people might be leaving the site? Google Analytics is…
NextGEN Gallery – The Most Popular WordPress Photo Plugin
NextGEN Gallery is the most popular photo gallery plugin for WordPress, and with over 5 million downloads it is one of the most popular WordPress…
3 Options for WordPress Paid Membership Plugins
If you want to build a paid membership site, then WordPress is a great option for you. There are many paid membership plugins for WordPress…
Using Jetpack for WordPress
Jetpack is many plugins in one. Built by Automattic, the people behind WordPress.com, JetPack offers around a dozen features including comments, statistics, social bookmarks and…
Gtranslate for WordPress Provides Automatic Translations
Gtranslate for WP is a plugin that will place a translation widget on your site, and allow for instant machine translation into 58 different languages.…
Creating a Google XML Sitemap for WordPress
The Google XML Sitemap plugin will generate a special sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog.…