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How To Use Custom Post Types To Organize Online Marketing Campaigns

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by Joshua Dodson

February 3, 2012

Custom post types add a level of flexibility to WordPress that makes this open-source Web development platform more useful on many levels.

Whenever I have been faced with a Web-based task, especially one that involves organizing information, the first thing I do is examine WordPress to determine if it can handle the job. It usually can. As an Internet marketer and analyst, I need to be able to organize online marketing campaigns in a way that is trackable in Google Analytics. This is the perfect task for WordPress custom post types.

Limiting The Visibility Of Posts In WordPress Via Usernames

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by Chris Ellison

January 27, 2012

Controlling who is able to view a post is a simple task once the system is established.

Limiting access to certain users has several applications, such as enabling a design studio to distribute artwork to its various clients, or enabling a small school to arrange for homework to be posted online using a cheap and easy solution.

How To Integrate Facebook, Twitter And Google+ In WordPress

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by Kevin Muldoon

January 19, 2012

Integrating social media services in your website design is vital if you want to make it easy for readers to share your content.

While some users are happy with the social media buttons that come built into their design template, the majority of WordPress users install a plugin to automatically embed sharing links on their pages. Many of you will find that a plugin does exactly what you need; others not so much. Some are poorly coded, and most include services that you just don't need. And while some great social media plugins are out there, they don't integrate with every WordPress design.

How Commercial Plugin Developers Are Using The WordPress Repository

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by Siobhan McKeown

January 13, 2012

A few weeks ago I wrote about how you can put together a great readme.txt for the WordPress plugin directory. In addition to using a WordPress readme as a tool to help out your users, you can use it to promote your commercial products and services.

While commercial theme developers are already promoted on WordPress.org, this promotion isn't extended to commercial plugin developers. But restrictions often lead to creativity, and developers have had to get a bit creative in figuring out how to monetize the WordPress repository. API keys, complementary plugins and lite versions are just a few of the ways that plugin developers are exploiting the WordPress plugin directory for commercial benefit.

How To Create Custom Taxonomies In WordPress

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by Kevin Leary

January 4, 2012

WordPress 3 introduced custom taxonomies as a core feature. The following release of 3.1 included many features to enhance support of custom taxonomies.

Better import and export handling, advanced queries with tax_query, hierarchical support, body classes and a bunch of wonderful functions to play with were all part of the package. Let's take an in-depth look at how to create your own custom taxonomies in WordPress, including a few advanced development examples that you can begin using in your WordPress themes and plugins today.

Integrating Amazon S3 With WordPress

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by Sameer Borate

December 1, 2011

Computing is full of buzzwords, "cloud computing" being the latest one. But unlike most trends that fizzle out after the initial surge, cloud computing is here to stay.

This article goes over Amazon's S3 cloud storage service and guides you to implementing a WordPress plugin that backs up your WordPress database to Amazon's S3 cloud. Note that this is not a tutorial on creating a WordPress plugin from scratch, so some familiarity with plugin development is assumed. The reason for using Amazon S3 to store important data follows from the "3-2-1" backup rule, coined by Peter Krogh. According to the 3-2-1 rule, you would keep three copies of any critical data: the original data, a backup copy on removable media, and a second backup at an off-site location (in our case, Amazon's S3 cloud).

How To Improve Your WordPress Plugin's Readme.txt

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by Siobhan McKeown

November 23, 2011

If you're a plugin developer and you just love to write code, then writing a readme.txt file for a plugin in WordPress' repository might be your idea of hell.

When you've written all of that lovely code, why must you spend time writing about how to use it? A poorly written readme.txt does not necessarily indicate that the plugin is poorly written; the code could be mind-blowingly good. But it does give the impression of an overall lack of attention to detail and a lack of care for end users. You see, no one will notice if a readme file is particularly awesome, but they will notice if it's bad.

WordPress Multisite: Practical Functions And Methods

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by Kevin Leary

November 17, 2011

Since the beginning of the year, I've been developing themes and plugins for a WordPress Multisite-powered content network. During that time I've learned many powerful tips and tricks unique to Multisite.

This guide will introduce you to a few Multisite-specific functions, along with real-world programming examples that you can begin using today. Hopefully, it will open your eyes to a few of the new possibilities available in Multisite. Multisite is a great option for freelancers, businesses and organizations that manage multiple WordPress websites. Whether you're a freelancer who wants to provide hosting and maintenance to clients, a college organization looking to centralize the management of your websites, or a large news publisher trying to isolate silos for different departments, Multisite is the answer.

Securing Your WordPress Website

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by Daniel Pataki

November 10, 2011

Security has become a foremost concern on the Web in the past few years. Hackers have always been around, but with the increase in computer literacy and the ease of access to virtually any data, the problem has increased exponentially.

It is now rare for a new website to not get comment spam within days of its release, even if it is not promoted at all. This increase in naughty behavior, however, has spurred developers to write better code, and framework vendors have implemented many functions to help coders in their battle against the dark side. Because data validation and sanitization is a big part of both security safeguards and normal user-input processing, by securing our code we will be not only protecting our behinds, but offering a better, more solid user experience.

Writing WordPress Guides For The Advanced Beginner

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by Scott Meaney

November 8, 2011

Creating WordPress tutorials is a fantastic way to help build the WordPress community and to increase your Web traffic. That's no secret.

Just Google "wordpress tutorial" and you'll see hundreds of results. The complete novice will find scores of well-written tutorials clearly demonstrating the basics of the WordPress dashboard and of activating the default template, in simple jargon-free language. Unfortunately, after the first few "Hello World!" tutorials, they are in for a bit of a learning curve. Suddenly, the guides start to skip a lot of details, assuming that the reader "already knows this stuff." Others are simply written exclusively for advanced WordPress users. So, where does a new developer go after square one?

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