Are you looking for a solid Calendar Plugin for your WordPress cms? Here are 7 plugins that could work for your needs. All 7 serve their own unique purposes and can be of course tailored to your specific needs. This will be extremely helpful for you if you are starting a blog or perfecting an existing one. If you know of any other calendar plugins for wordpress that you have found useful than hit me up with a comment and share. (last update: May 23, 2010) Due to the lack of updates on plugins to support more recent versions of WordPress, I spent some time to go back through and find the best working and most functional calendar plugins for WordPress to date. #1 Event Calendar/Scheduler Compatible up to WordPress version 2.9.2 An easy to implement event calendar plugin built on top of dhtmlxScheduler, which provides Ajax-based scheduling solution similar [...]

Okay here me out for a second. I run a web design/development firm right. And a lot of the smaller projects that I service for my clients are websites built with a content management system, typically WordPress or Drupal. The interesting thing that I have found is that each client project has it’s own unique featuers, which makes managing the content different in some areas for each project. You following me? So basically I’m having to train each individual client on how to manage his/her website. You can imagine the kind of time this would/was taking me each time I had to do it. We’re talking about a phone call anywhere between 1-2 hours. That’s some wasted valuable time. Here’s exactly what I did to streamline that process. Step 1 = Setup WordPress Starting a blog in my opinion was the perfect idea for a Video Knowledge Base for my [...]

(last update: May 31, 2010) Due to the lack of updates on plugins to support more recent versions of WordPress, I spent some time to go back through and find the best working and most functional photo gallery plugins for WordPress to date. 1. Fotobook compatible up to WordPress version 3.0.2 – official WordPress.org page – demo Fotobook is a WordPress plugin that will link to your Facebook account(s) and import all of your photo albums for use in your WordPress installation. It uses the Facebook API so importing your photos is a breeze. Requires PHP 5. THIS IS MY FAVORITE ONE! Features include: Interfaces with Facebook’s API Displays photo albums on a WordPress page Import photos from mulitple Facebook accounts Sidebar widgets for displaying random or recent photos & albums Creates an album of photos that the user’s tagged in Insert individual photos into posts/pages Easy-to-use Ajax album management [...]

Recently I was working on a website where my customer was starting a WordPress blog and needed a different header on each page. Not post, but page. In this particular situation, my client is using WordPress as a content management system for static content pages only, and not for a blog. There is some very simple PHP code that I used in my header.php file, and this code can be helpful for you especially if you are not an expert in PHP, but just need a solution. Locate your header.php file and located the <div> for your header. Replace it with this code: Now you define each “header” div in your style.css file. The name of the <div> is associated with each static page title. So for example, if you have an About page your div would be #about in your CSS file. It’s a pretty simple approach to getting [...]

So whenever you write something called “the best _ plugin” you know of course that’s going to change over time. And it has with ad management plugins for WordPress. Since I originally wrote this post back in May of 2008 the WPAds plugin has become outdated and nearly non-existent. Since then the WordPress plugin developer Ozh has developed the Ozh’ Who Sees Ads plugin which is now in my opinion the best choice for an ad management plugin. If you are starting a new blog or just improving a current one, this is a plugin that can help you monetize your efforts. Who Sees Ads is an advanced ad management plugin that lets you decide who will see your ads, for instance Adsense, depending on user defined conditions. You can manage ads in your templates (eg sidebar.php) or within posts and pages. For instance, you could consider the following criteria: [...]

With literally thousands of plugins available today for the WordPress CMS, it can be difficult to find those that are reliable and consistent with the constant upgrading and improvement of WordPress. If you are setting up a new blog or improving an existing one, here are 10 plugins for WordPress that I use on nearly every blog I run. 1. Askimet This is a plugin I use 100% of the time. You simply just get a WordPress.com account and they give you an API key to use it. They filter out all of the spam comments for you, eliminating a huge headache for running your blog. 2. Platinum SEO Pack I am a huge advocate of Search Engine Optimization. This plugin has greatly benefited all of my blogs including this one. The Platinum SEO Pack allows you to configure your Page Titles and Meta Tags for each post/page on your [...]