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WordPress Theme Panel Options Frameworks

• June 19, 2013
• Kyla
• 0 Comments

At the heart of many popular WordPress themes is a powerful theme options panel. This is a great way to include theme customization options that non-developers can manage and understand. Many users don't have a clue what CSS is - but they can use tabs, toggles, drop -downs and color pickers. Below I've listed a few of the top free WordPress theme panel options frameworks available on the web. They have user friendly UIs and are all great options for…

Fanciest Author Box: The Best Author Box Solution for WordPress?

• June 18, 2013
• Tom Ewer
• 2 Comments

Managing a multi-author WordPress site is like a different world when compared to running a one-man show (or one person show, in the interests of being politically correct ;-)). You have a raft of new considerations to keep track of: user roles and capabilities, editorial duties, and so on. But the upsides are huge -- with content creation being so time consuming, having multiple writers working on your blog can be hugely beneficial. Not only that, but creating a team can…

How To Reset Your WordPress Password Using phpMyAdmin

• June 17, 2013
• Sourav K
• 0 Comments

One of the primary reasons why companies like LastPass thrive is that we humans aren't designed to remember random combinations of alphanumeric characters – which are essentially strong passwords. What happens if you've setup a client’s WordPress site, customized the theme, installed the plugins, added the content – everything in one go and then go out for a beer – all the while, forgetting what password you set for the default user? Next morning, you’re finalizing the project and when…

Wrangle Your WordPress Sites: Consider ManageWP

• June 14, 2013
• Peter Shilling
• 2 Comments

Like a lot of people before I commit to services or monthly fees I take a long hard look at the offering to make sure that it going to be a worthy investment. So in today's post I thought I give you an honest, down to earth review of ManageWP.com. If you're considering it read on! What It Is ManageWP.com is a service to bring together the maintenance of multiple WordPress site into one neat tool box. Once you are…

The Ten Best WordPress Blogs Around (What’s In My RSS Reader)

• June 11, 2013
• Tom Ewer
• 12 Comments

Some people say that the age of the RSS reader is coming to an end -- that people are now finding alternative ways to consume content. Well as far as I am concerned, RSS is going nowhere. It is certainly my primary means of consuming content on the web and I don't see that changing any time soon. Which brings me to the countless WordPress resources I am subscribed to on Feedly (what with Google Reader going the way of the dodo). Because…

Authentic Themes Lifetime Membership Giveaway

• June 10, 2013
• Kyla
• 188 Comments

As you might already know, we recently launched Authentic Themes a premium WordPress Theme membership site. And we opened up the affiliate section today. So naturally it's time for a giveaway! Authentic Themes is giving away 10 Lifetime Memberships (a $2,500 value!). This includes lifetime access to all of the Authentic Themes WordPress themes, plugins, knowledgebase and resources. Plus Authentic Themes is 100% GPL so you can use everything on the site for yourself and clients. There really is something…

Add A Featured Image From A URL

• June 10, 2013
• Remi
• 1 Comment

Sometimes you need to dynamically add a featured image to a post or a custom post type from another server than the one your WordPress install is running. And you're facing a common issue: how to do it? Of course in this case, you need to grab the featured image from the second server, download it to your own server, in the upload folder, and assign it to the correct post. In the first step we are going to create…