Upgrading and maintaining a Wordpress installation has recently become a lot less time-consuming thanks to the automatic upgrade feature for both the main Wordpress installation and the plugins. It is ideal, though, if you’re managing multiple installations for multiple clients, that these clients are running off of one installation of Wordpress. This makes upgrades and [...]

The default comment feature on Wordpress is good for generating discussion on topics that you start, but what if your visitors want to create their own topics? A forum is the best format for this type of discussion. I have worked with two different forum softwares for Wordpress. One is a project of the Wordpress [...]

Girlebooks.com was one of the first sites I set up in Wordpress. The site is not only a hobby for me but also a great playground to see what I can do with Wordpress. It also is a great site to point prospective clients to when they want to see examples of what we’ve done [...]

GIC already had a fully functional website and design. What they wanted was an ecommerce area that would allow them to sell digital products. We set up an online marketplace for GIC’s Wordpress-powered website. In the Marketplace visitors can add digital products to their cart, purchase their products (payments are made through PayPal Standard), and [...]

Our latest work involves development of a subscription system using Wordpress on the popular financial blog, Footnoted.org. The requirements of the system were as follows:

A subscriber registration and payment processing interface
System tracking of subscription expiration dates
Download management allowing the administrator to easily upload files as well as restricting file downloads to paying subscribers only
An email [...]

Recently, a client asked if I could create some ad spaces on his Wordpress blog that he could administer himself. The requirements:

ad spaces of differing sizes
ad spaces in multiple locations on the site
a simple administration interface with the ability to input ads with HTML code or to upload an image with a link

This post is a continuation of posts about Wordpress plugins we’ve worked with. I just installed a plugin called the PHP Code Widget for a client today. This plugin takes the basic function of a text widget and lets you place PHP code in it. Very useful if you’re using a widgitized sidebar and need [...]

Update: Things change radically in the plugin world, expecially when new version of Wordpress is released and the developer stops supporting the plugin. While The Excerpt Reloaded still works as described below, it will not strip shortcodes in your post text before creating your excerpt. I am now using the Advanced Excerpt plugin, which does [...]