For  a project I have been working on recently, I realized I needed a better solution for the Login/Register functions in WordPress than just the typical “Meta Widget” provided. I also did not want to edit my widgets.php file because it’s in the WP-Includes directory and would risk getting overwritten when needing to upgrade WordPress. [...]

Somebody finally stepped up to the plate and created a Business Directory plugin for WordPress. A good friend of mine and owner of Square Compass, Cary Snowden, has put together a free plugin so that you can easily add directory capabilities to your WordPress cms Blog or site. How to Install this plugin Rename the [...]

Are you needing to build a website for a Real Estate agent? Or, are you actually a real estate agent yourself and are looking for a content management system that gives you specific tools for real estate? The Joomla open source content management system has 2 specific extensions that are open source that you could [...]

So I had an interesting request recently, one of course that I had never been asked before. That was if there was a WordPress Newsletter plugin that could integrate with the WordPress Users feature. Let’s say for example, you want to push people on your blog to register as a user, and when that user [...]

Alright you’ve seen me write about Ubercart, the open source shopping cart for Drupal many times before. And I have been using Ubercart for various different projects with much success. But until recently, I never had the change in a project to use Ubercart with integration to an Authorize.net merchant account. I was very surprised [...]

So let’s say you run into a situation like this. You are running a WordPress site that needs more than 1 sidebars that are content manageable through the WordPress admin interface using the ‘WordPress Widgets’. I recently ran into a snag where I needed to find a solution in this area. It’s actually pretty easy. [...]