I have worked with a lot of different CMS tools in my 10 years of working with computers – Wordpress, Joomla, Sharepoint, and even attempted writing my own CMS tool twice in the past. I have found, in the last 2 years of using Wordpress exclusively that it’s an excellent publishing platform.  As a [...]

I just stumbled upon SyndicateKahuna.com.  It’s a service that let’s you automatically get content on your blog, in the categories that you choose.  The idea is that promoters and advertisers PAY to submit content, and in return that content is “dripped” to web sites, like yours, automatically.  The syndicator adds a special php script to [...]

I recently started using the Nextgen Gallery on a project I just completed at exquisitecutandfashion.com.  If you haven’t used Nextgen before, it’s an excellent image organizer that let’s you do things like automatic thumbnails, gallery metadata, and more.  Have a look at some samples to get a better idea.
I have come to love Nextgen [...]

I found a neat trick to integrate Cforms with Paypal.  It let’s you take info of any kind on your Wordpress website using a form you design, and then have the buyer forwarded to Paypal for payment completion once they submit the form (which is sent to you via email).  The trick is to use [...]

Out of the blue, I was contacted today by a local business owner seeking Wordpress theme customization from a theme they purchased on Themeforest (by the way, read about how I was able to provide everything the client wanted in my other blog post)  At first, I thought someone referred them to me, but after [...]

Get Post Image is a plugin I recently found that let’s you you place an image from a post into your home page to entice visitors to read your post.  I found a trick to OPTIONALLY show an image if it’s found, and not show one if it isn’t.  I used the PHP command “strpos” [...]