This will be an ongoing post about all the questions we have for customizing multisite to fit our needs, and the answers we find and use along the way. Question: How to add custom blog options to the add new blog page? Answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10339053/wordpress-multisite-how-to-add-custom-blog-options-to-add-new-site-form-in-ne
Read moreSo when is Multisite (WPMU) Used? 1. When all the hosted sites are similar. Like WordPress.com for example, they are all supposed to be “blogs”. They are all forced to live with the same features, not much for options. 2. They are all managed by the same company or business. Like a set of landing…
Read moreI found and established these plugins to be the best based on how many clients used each plugin. There are dozens of other plugins we recommend, so this list is rated as “most useful to most websites that market to customers”. Note that NONE of these links have affiliate URL’s, so you can rest assured…
Read moreI’m going to take a brief moment to explain a seriously cool idea that came to light while building Whitelabel Framework theme. When building a frame you have to approach everything you do with the questions “how could others customize this in any way possible”. Well, this is why WordPress invented the do_action / add_action system. Preface …
Read moreOk, I’ve spent a decade moving between hosting companies. Basically the answer is “they all suck”. I’ve not found a hosting company that offers WordPress hosting without something about there support that fails. Lets go through them all: Recommendations: For the average small business with multiple websites **A2Hosting is currently our primary recommendation. We have…
Read moreIgnore the hint to try WordPress VIP, they want way too much money for what they do. The State of WordPress in Government from GovLoop Important Notes from the Slides: The WordPress Ecosystem: Self Hosted – runs on your servers, complete control over code and experience, “with great power comes great responsibility” WordPress.com – largest…
Read moreToday we are blogging about a non-technical issue, newsletters. I’ve seen and read probably 2 dozen different newsletters. To date, I’ve canceled all but 3 of them. Only 1 of them is related to WordPress. Which one? MAX FOUNDRY’S NEWSLETTER Why? Its real content. They give you insider news on whats happening with the core…
Read moreThis is the example I built while learning how to properly protect password before they are stored in the database. I’ve seen dozens of plugins simply take in API paramters like “username and password” and just store those values in the database for use. How horrible is that! We decided to do the right thing…
Read more*This guide is assuming website is for marketing and information only (or lead generation). There are some other considerations and steps involved in creating an ecommerce site, web portal, online services website, or another venue. ** Presentations of this material will be available in the coming weeks. If your interested in viewing the presentations live,…
Read moreWP 301 – Presentation 1 Kurt’s Presentation Slides – http://x.co/phx13301/ Keywords: Netbeans, xdebug, XAMPP, VirtualBox Have you considered local development? WP 301 – Presenation 2 Chris Olbekson Debug Plugin, PhpStorm, Code Sniffer for standards and formatting, Do you know what a CRON is? PHP Sniffer, uses PEAR, WP 301 – Presentation 3 (mine) Before questions:…
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