Feed to WordPress

There’s plenty of reasons you might want to syndicate other feeds to your blog. If you have a lot of projects you might want to have one “home” where you show all the latest posts from all your blogs either in a widget or as posts. If you use posts you can either show post [...]

WordPress Design Plugins

If you’re an experienced WordPress Developer or a newbie trying to add your own flavour to your WordPress Posts or Pages these plugins will make the process easier and less time consuming. 1. WP Attention Boxes Sometimes you just want to call out attention to a particular important message, or quote, or a collection of [...]

Living – WordPress Community

LivingWP for short is doing it’s final relaunch. I’ve decided to switch the focus from just ask and answer to a more holistic one, of a complete community. At the new community you can start topics, share and discuss WordPress Themes, Plugins and Hacks. Show us your blog, Post or Find Jobs, post classifieds or [...]

MobStac WordPress Mobile Plugin

Create an elegant, blazing-fast mobile website for your blog in 5 minutes! Type in the URL of your blog and let MobStac do the rest. MobStac comes with a WordPress plugin which will automatically detectmobile visitors and redirect them to the appropriate link. You can setup CNAME records to point to eg. m.purplehazard.com (I still [...]

How to detect and remove WordPress Eval Malware

Google Malware Notification

Google recently notified me of possible Malware on one of my WordPress installations, which I fortunately didn’t use very often and consequently didn’t update or protect as best I could. I cleared out the whole site, made a fresh install and decided to only use it for development. Some change I did make however was [...]

AutoMotivator WordPress Plugin

As long as I’m making plugin wishlists because I fail in doing them myself, I thought I’ll add this one. Everyone loves a good FAIL pic and even more so when they’re about someone you know. There’s a great little online application you can use to make them, available here – http://wigflip.com/automotivator/. Now my wish is to [...]

WordPress and Facebook Integration

When running a WordPress blog it’s always better to build a community around your topic. That increases participation etc. A great way to do this is getting your already established Facebook friends to take part in your blog activities such as comments, pictures etc. Now I am aware of some of the Facebook related plugins that can [...]

Show WP Widgets to Logged On Users Only

widget-logic

You can find various plugins that allow you to control on which pages you display your widgets. Unfortunately I was unable to find one specifically made to show certain widgets to logged on users only. Fortunately I was able to figure out the next best thing, which is actually pretty basic. Just follow the steps [...]

BuddyPress on WP 3 Project

I’ve recently been working with BuddyPress and used it to setup my first rugby community. I’ve been enjoying it so much I got myself a new domain, awesome hosting package, some friends and setup a new blogging social network. I’m using the BuddyPress Default theme with the Widgetized Frontpage “page template”. As an extra I [...]