WordPress CMS Plugins

Posted on: January 25, 2012 by Jeff Starr

To make room for new content for the DiW 3.3 update, we’re “excerpting” this section into its own blog post. Here you’ll find an extensive round-up of CMS plugins for WordPress. Includes CMS plugins for better admin functionality, user-role management, custom content display, e-commerce & shopping carts, forums, newsletters, and more.

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Smarter Slugs ~!@$%^&*()={}<>[]?

Posted on: January 24, 2012 by Jeff Starr

See those crazy characters in the title of this post? Now see how they don’t appear in the post’s URL? That’s one of the finer details of the WordPress 3.3 update: smarter permalink slugs.

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Plugins for SOPA/PIPA Blackout

Posted on: January 18, 2012 by Jeff Starr

Get involved! Here is a list of stop-SOPA/PIPA plugins to help blackout your WordPress-powered site:

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Goodbye Admin Bar, Hello Toolbar

Posted on: January 13, 2012 by Jeff Starr

When the Admin Bar hit the streets in WordPress 3.1, people seemed to either love it or hate it. And rightly so, it was a significant change in the appearance of the WP Admin area, and if not disabled in your User Profile, the front-end of your site as well. Many tips, tricks and plugins for customizing the Admin Bar began appearing around the Web. And then just as the dust began to settle, BAM — the “Admin Bar” transforms into the “Toolbar” with the WordPress 3.3 update.

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Poll Results, Book News, and More!

Posted on: December 26, 2011 by Jeff Starr

We’ve had several polls going in the DigWP.com sidebar for quite some time now, and it’s been interesting watching the trends change over time. The first and longest ongoing poll is HTML or XHTML for Markup?, which now has over 7,000 votes.

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Displaying Theme Data with WordPress

Posted on: December 14, 2011 by Jeff Starr

A cool trick you can do with WordPress is display information directly from your theme’s style.css stylesheet. I recently used this on a site where the theme’s version number is used throughout the template to keep things current and consistent.

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..went oh so smooth here at DigWP.com. We just completed the WP 3.3 (Sonny) update and everything is working (and looking) great. The revamped Admin interface looks incredible! Kudos to the entire WordPress team for their hard work and for making WordPress #1. Download and learn more.

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