WordPress is one of the greatest success stories of the open source movement. Launched in 2003 as a simple blogging tool, it has since grown into the most widely used content management system in the world, powering more than 40% of all websites. But beneath the…
When it comes to building websites, few platforms have made as significant an impact as WordPress. What began in 2003 as a blogging tool has evolved into the world’s most widely used content management system (CMS), powering over 40% of all websites on the internet….
I recently implemented a WordPress site that integrates tightly with Salesforce. Much of the site content is being retrieved from Salesforce on a daily basis. The Salesforce content is retrieved and imported into WordPress via custom PHP scripts and the Salesforce…
I’m doing a lot of WordPress development these days. Most of my clients use my hosting services. Yes, it’s an obvious business benefit to me because of the recurring revenue, but I also deliver a high level of proactive security and performance…
I do a lot of integration work between e-commerce cart software packages and third party systems. Many e-commerce carts (Sunshop, VirtueMart, ZenCart, etc.) maintain their own database tables for storing orders, product, categories and everything the cart needs for…
In the Formidable forms visual designer, each form input field has an section titled “click here to add a description or additional instructions.” It’s handy for putting hints where a user might need a bit of extra help. The hints text can be…
We live in fast moving times. In the world of computing technology, something created a couple of years ago is rarely viewed as exciting. For whatever reason, we seem to have a fascination with “new.” This post is the antithesis of that idea. It’s…
WordPress has come a very long way in a relatively short period of time. In particular, the releases of the last two years, along with the fast growing base of plugins, have made the platform incredibly flexible for content management. More and more,…
I’ve had a chance to experiment a bit with the latest beta version of the upcoming WordPress 4 release. It’s safe to say that users of recent versions of WordpPress 3 will make an easy transition to WordPress 4. There are no radical design departures. …