Nathan Rice of StudioPress has come up with a dandy of a plugin called Simple URLs. What is Simple URLs? Short answer - a complete URL management system. Long answer - read on. Simple URLs acts as a URL shortening service with the big difference being the links you publish will be from your own domain. This is a perfect solution for hiding those ... Read More »

Upgrading your theme with WordPress 2.9.1 couldn't be easier ... or could it? Currently, if you're using a theme hosted at the WordPress Theme Directory and a new version comes out you'll see a notice in the Manage Themes section of your backend. You click the upgrade link and presto you have the latest version. While this is a handy feature it ... Read More »

I'm not a fan of widgets. Instead, I prefer hardcoding everything. However I realize many people love them as they make customization as easy as clicking a button. But as is with everything else things can and do go wrong. How many times have you loaded up with widgets then change themes only to find some of them stuck or even inaccessible? This ... Read More »

As I mentioned in my previous post Twitter Meets WordPress (where I reviewed the Twitter LiveBlog plugin) the thing I like most about WordPress is its open-source nature. It is because of this that some very talented plugin creators are able to extend some amazing functionality to the already outstanding piece of software that WordPress is. In ... Read More »