Content Migration between WordPress Sites
Ever needed to migrate content from one WordPress site to another? Fear not, fortunately WordPress has in-built import and export facilities. The process goes as follows: Log in to the original site you want to export data from. Go to Tools > Export. Arrange Filters as needed, by default WP exports all the content. Hit the ‘Download Export File’ button. When you click the button WordPress will create an XML file for you to save to your computer. This format, which is called WordPress eXtended RSS or WXR, will contain your posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags. Log…
Best Slideshow (Content Slider) Plugins for WordPress
Call them content sliders, slideshows, rotating images, or anything you want, these effects are here to stay. They’re great at showcasing your portfolio or to highlight some of the best content on your WordPress blog or website.
Here’s a list of the best free and premium content slider and slideshow plugins available for your WordPress sites.
A Better WordPress Admin for Your Clients
We will soon be posting a guide to customising the WordPress admin for your clients, in the meantime this videocast by Troy Dean will give you ton of valuable information on this topic. If you enjoyed this post, make sure to subscribe to WPMayor’s RSS feed. About Jean GaleaJean Galea is a WordPress developer, entrepreneur and padel player. He is the founder of WP Mayor, the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and EDD Bookings, as well as the Mastermind.fm podcast. His personal blog can be found at jeangalea.com.
How to Load JavaScripts into WordPress Themes
JQuery and other JavaScript frameworks are very commonly used in WordPress themes and plugins, but not all developers load them correctly. Learn how to properly load them using the wp_enqueue_script function in WordPress.
Best Video and Media Lightbox for WordPress
Update: The plugin has been pulled from the repository. If you are looking for a cool lightbox effect plugin for WordPress, Shadowbox JS is the answer. The best thing about it is that it supports so many media formats including video. Therefore you can make Youtube videos, for example, open in a lightbox style effect very easily by using this plugin. Shadowbox is an online media viewing application that supports all of the web’s most popular media publishing formats. Shadowbox is written entirely in JavaScript and CSS and is highly customizable. Using Shadowbox, website authors can display a wide assortment…
Using WordPress as a Development Platform
Japheth Thomson presented on WordPress as a development platform at WordCamp Melbourne. You can check him out on his website and on Twitter at @japh.
Interview with Brad Trivers
In our new interviews section we will be meeting WordPress developers from all around the world. This month we start off with Brad Trivers, who is based in Canada and has made the switch to WordPress in recent years. In this interview we learn more about why he chose WordPress and how he uses our favourite CMS. Hi Brad, thanks for joining up for this interview. Let’s start with an introduction. Tell us about your web development business in general and where WordPress comes into the picture. First off, thank you for interviewing me! I started developing simple websites way…
Getting Started With HTML 5 and WordPress
HTML 5 is now more like the present than the future, and WordPress theme developers should stand up and take notice. Why not try and implement HTML 5 in your next WordPress project. We bring you all the resources you will need to get started immediately with HTML and WordPress.
Easy Print Friendly Posts and Pages with PrintFriendly
An important thing to consider when blogging is that people will want to print interesting articles, maybe because they prefer reading them in printed format, or maybe they just want to keep a hard copy. Whatever the reason, we need to provide an easy way for our users to print the posts and pages on our WordPress site. Learn how…
Best IDE for WordPress Development
In this article we explore the various PHP IDE options available for editing WordPress files and building themes and plugins. We expand on our two winners: Notepad++ and Netbeans for PHP.
