WordPress Vibe

Frederick Townes is both the CTO of Mashable and a friend of mine. He’s always doing new and cool things with WordPress. One of his latest and greatest creations is W3 Total Cache, which we utilize here on WP Vibe. Here’s a little something he did recently that is really cool.He ad...

Google Analytics is one of many analytics platforms available for free. Google Analytics used to be what was called Urchin, which was acquired back in 2005; and then Google made it a free offering. GA is a very flexible and extensive free analytics platform.It’s easy to integrate Google A...

Customizing a post with a fresh and unique thumbnail is a nice touch as it adds just a bit more personality to the post, rather than having the same ole’ images or not having images at all. Here on WordPress Vibe, we have thumbnails for each post, which both Dre and I really like ...No rel...

WordPress is about a lot of things, Code is Poetry, an artistic form. Design, code, photography play a huge roll in the success of WordPress. Travis Ballard is a seasoned PHP programmer, WordPress Dev, Photobug, Design guy, and more. I had the opportunity to sit down with Travis recently and here...

Day by day we get closer to the full release of WordPress 2.9. Today WordPress released the 2nd round of its latest Beta. Join the fun, the download is now available.The folks at WordPress have also ask that if you are continuing support for themes or plugins you’ve developed, that you ensu...

It’s that time of year again, when you hear it’s that time of year again. This is our first holiday season here at WPVibe and we’re in the spirit, so we’ve decided to put together a small giveaway.WPVibe is very excited about WordPress and where it’s heading over the...

WordCamp NYC was a huge success, in my eyes. Jane Wells and Steve Bruner did an amazing job at organizing a two-day event. They had some amazing sponsors to help make it a huge success.WordCampNYC 2009A couple of the highlights for me were mostly networking related, such as meeting Ryan Duff, Sh...

Login Lockdown is a great added security plugin. If you feel you have people trying to guess your password to login to your site, this plugin will be a great fit for you. So some of the options includes max login attempts, retry time restrictions, lockout length, along with lockout invalid user...

Today is a special day. As I sit here and write this post, I am thinking about my experiences from the past 15 years. As a 12 year Navy veteran, Veteran’s Day holds a special place for me.I had the opportunity to serve with true heros during some very difficult times in our country’s ...

Have you ever wanted to embed a video from your favorite video site into a WordPress post and didn’t want to go through the trouble of copying and pasting the embed HTML from the source site? Viper’s Video Quicktags (VVQ) plugin tackles this media sharing hurdle, and is flexible with ...

Adding your feed to Google Webmaster Tools is a fairly recent addition. SEO-wise, how does this help by having your feed submitted? It let’s Google know you’re staying fresh.Like using the WordPress XML sitemaps plugin for normal sitemaps, it’s also good to submit your feed. ...

After the Deadline was a brilliant acquisition for Automattic. WordPress is in the business of helping people write and publish effectively. Everything they do should be focused around that in some capacity. After the Deadline does just that; it helps people proofread posts.When the plugin was...

Through out the years creating various themes, I’ve found some wonderful resources to help get through the process as efficiently and effectively as possible. There are a lot of elements to creating a nice, clean theme and everyone has a different approach.WordPress Theme Author ResourcesIn...

One of the WordPress core developers Matt Martz was nice enough to give us a few minutes of his time to interview him. Martz has been using WordPress for three years, and two of those years, he has been contributing core code. His passion for WordPress is evident through his responses to some o...

There are a lot of Twitter plugins and widgets out there for WordPress. So which one is the best? I’ve tested a lot of the various plugins available, but I have yet to find a plugin that has the functionality of Twitter Tools by Alex King. This plugin does an great job of providing both ...

Have you been looking for the best XML Sitemap plugin for WordPress? I have been using the plugin by Arne Brachhold for quite some time and been extremely happy with both its flexibility and active development. He has done a great job with the plugin.This plugin does a great job because of all th...

Version 2.0 of the WordPress iPhone application [iTunes link] is available. Here are a few things that are new with version 2.0.A new, more efficient user interface that makes it faster to switch between comments, posts, and pages.Various user interface refinements and bug fixesNew comments inte...

Recently, the self-hosted WordPress website, wordpress.org, added a new function to the plugin section of the site.Already, plugin authors can use the option of “this plugin is compatible up to X version of WordPress,” so why would Automattic want to crowd-source plugin compatibility?...

Great news coming from the BuddyPress blog, Andy Peatling has announced the BuddyPress 1.1 release.Here are a few highlights of new features and changes.One click internal bbPress forum integration allowing you to set up group forums in less than a minute.A global forum directory (example) allowi...