Posts Tagged ‘wordpress plugin

Optional Styles

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22 Apr 2011

A WordPress plugin or theme should never have to output inline styles, especially not in the frontend. Inline styles will prevent some doctypes from validating and they are actually a factor to slow down your page loads. If your plugin outputs a piece of code that needs styling, add an ID to the output and [...]

   Plugins are a major part of why WordPress powers millions of blogs and websites around the world. The ability to extend WordPress to meet just about any need is a powerful motivator for choosing WordPress over other alternatives. Having written several plugins myself, I’ve come to learn many (but certainly not all) of the [...]

With its ability to let site visitors interact around specific portions of text only, Highlighter stands as a more contextualized alternative to the way in which comments have always been placed on blogs. Highlighter is a WordPress plugin that you can get (and use) for free. Upon installing it, people who visit your blog will [...]

Any WordPress site administrator will know WordPress has an auto update system for plugins. Not many people seem to think through how this works and what it means, which is why a lot of people started to say stuff when I “fixed” the BlogPress SEO situation earlier today. Let’s walk through this essentially pretty easy [...]

Akismet was one of Automattic’s first projects, and after 5 years of sporting the same design, the entire site has received a major facelift. On first glance, the new site presents Akismet’s benefits in a much clearer way, and offers clearer distinction between the free and paid licenses. Fans of the old spam stats will [...]


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