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Automatic Amazon s3 Backups on Ubuntu / Debian On Thu 11th Mar | In How Do I...? | By Michael Martin 40 VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting is the next level up from shared hosting. You get a lot more server usage for each of your dollars, but the catch is that you lose all of the easiness of shared hosting. One of the most important things you need to set up with your VPS is automatic backups. I

Add Useful Links to WordPress Admin Bar On Mon 14th Mar | In WordPress | By Michael Martin 65 WordPress 3.1 introduced the admin bar, which adds admin options to the top of your pages as you browse your site (Assuming you’re logged in of course). It’s easy to extend the bar to add new links of your own, or to remove links you don’t want (e.g. if the “Appearance” menu isn’t something you often need

WordPress $post, $term and $comment Object Cheat Sheet On Wed 2nd Feb | In WordPress | By Michael Martin 56 There are several objects in WordPress that we use all the time, namely $post, $comment and categories/tags. If you’re like me though, you never remember everything that’s in there, or the names of the values you want. This cheat sheet will be a reference which you (and I) can refer to the n

30 Pro jQuery Tips, Tricks and Strategies On Tue 1st Jun | In Coding | By Nick Parsons 137 Whether you’re a developer or a designer, a strong jQuery skillset is something you can’t afford to be without. Today, I’m going to show you 30 handy jQuery coding tricks that will help you make your scripts more robust, elegant and professional. Getting Started These tips and tricks all have one thing in co

How To Make a WordPress Events List On Mon 18th Jan | In WordPress | By Michael Martin 226 IMPORTANT: A newer version of this post has been released! The code below doesn’t work over multiple years. Please read: An Updated WordPress Events List instead! An events list is just what you would expect; a list of upcoming events, ordered by the date they are taking place on (Not the date they were writ

40 Extraordinary Photoshop Text Effects On Mon 8th Mar | In Resources | By Narendra.s.v 110 The trouble with Photoshop Tutorials is that there are a lot of them out there, but you only want the very best, most creative ones. In this post, we’ve collected 40 of the very best and most extravagant tutorials for working with type. After working through a few of the most appealing looking ones to you,

One of the first things to do when planning out a new website is to work out all of the content that will be in the site. You then divide that up into sections and then into various levels of navigation. The result is a boring list of links. That list of links is one of the most important part of your website though, it goes without saying that every visitor to the site will be using them to get a

50 jQuery Tools for Awesome Websites On Mon 15th Feb | In Resources | By denbagus 130 By now, everyone has heard of jQuery. It’s a framework that makes JavaScript development much easier, and has become massively popular for adding JavaScript functionality to websites. In this post, we’ve picked out 50 of the best scripts we know of and talked about why they rock. They can help in just about any a

10 Ways to Customize and Personalize your WordPress Blog On Mon 7th Sep | In WordPress | By Angie Bowen 110 Having a unique theme and adding personal touches to your blog is by no means a necessity, but it can really enhance and enable your site to stand out more among the blogosphere’s branded band of bloggers. Just like with any aspect of your brand, you want people to immediately make that asso

16 Cheat Sheets on 16 Essential Topics for Web Designers On Mon 17th Aug | In Resources | By sogeking 92 Cheat sheets has several benefits from saving you a lot of time  to also helping you improve your skills and productivity in that cetrain task. They provide a great and quick reference and also helps your learn faster by showing all the necessary information needed. There are documentations, bu

45 Creative Logo Designs For Inspiration On Thu 13th Aug | In Inspiration | By sogeking 332 Logos make a big impact on how others view your blog or company. It is of great importance in creating brand identity, and you should be very careful in choosing one. Below we have selected some beautiful and creative logos that will hopefully inspire you to be creative or give you an idea of what the curre

Free themes are designed to be as easy to install as possible. You simply upload your theme, activate it, and you’re done. It knows your blog’s name, description, feed URL and everything else. In order to know all of this, the theme uses PHP tags to get the information. However, it has to use these tags every time a page is loaded. As most of the information never changes, you can delete these tag

40 Free Premium-Quality WordPress Themes On Thu 9th Jul | In WordPress | By Angie Bowen 441 In my opinion, one of the best ways to learn about wordpress theme development is to take one of the many clean and nicely layed out free themes and start customizing them yourself. With this hands on approach with a working model, you have the ability to see for yourself what is happening to the theme with

WordPress can be very simple to work with, but it can also be very complicated. The system can be used to do just about anything you like. In this post we have collected together a range of tutorials that span from the very first things you need to know, like working with the loop, to much more complicated tricks, like setting up post thumbnails on your home page. The 30 Tutorials WordPress Tutori

35 Awesome User Interface Design Tutorials On Mon 6th Apr | In Resources | By Narendra.s.v 235 There are more different styles of design out there than we could ever hope to master. But as designers, we never want to become locked into one way of doing things. Below we have collected 35 of the best tutorials for all aspects of User Interface design, with a very wide variety of styles. Follow a tut

30 Best Free Icon Sets for Bloggers On Mon 12th Jan | In Resources | By Narendra.s.v 202 Most of us tend to have a boatload of icons strewn across our blogs. Social media, bullet points, navigation, even smileys! Here we’ve collected together some of the best free icon sets we’ve come across online. By taking yours icons from the same set, you get a consistent look and feel across your graphics fo

11 Best Ways to Improve WordPress Security On Mon 15th Dec | In WordPress | By Michael Martin 152 “Why should I care about WordPress security?” That is the question I usually get when I start talking about how to install WordPress securely. Believe it or not, many people think the chance of a hacker — or precisely, cracker or web site intruder — getting into their blog and causing havoc is slim to

25 Ways to Spice Up Blog Post Photos On Mon 29th Sep | In Quick Tweaks | By Michael Martin 522 Images enhance the visual impact of a blog and make it more likely a post will be read. One good photo can grab a reader’s attention and drive them to the article. A post without any graphs, drawing, or photos can look daunting. Even if it’s well written, the wall of text might not appeal to anyone. A go

Separating Trackbacks from Comments On Tue 18th Sep | In How Do I...? | By Michael Martin 593 Trackbacks are the messages displayed in the comments list whenever another blog links back to one of your posts. Many blogs disable trackbacks, but not all. If you use trackbacks on your blog, it is best if they are not mixed with the comments. The comments are a conversation between between real people.