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5 Ways User Profiles Add Authority to Your WordPress Site

Author: Brenda Stokes
Last Updated: April 26th, 2023

WordPress continues to offer an astounding array of choices and customization options for website owners. One option in particular can help add authority to your site and create an improved user experience for your site visitors: enabling user profiles. Allowing your repeat visitors to create their own user profiles can help make your site “the […]

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WordPress Testimonial Page Template with WCK

Author: Bianca Petroiu
Last Updated: August 4th, 2022

Having testimonials displayed on your client’s website is a always a nice bonus, and helps to highlight the brand’s personality and keep up with its audience. The scope of this tutorial is to build a WordPress Testimonial Page Template with the help of WCK - Custom Fields and Post Type Creator plugin. How you choose […]

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Q&A about Akismet with Pete Davies

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: December 7th, 2021

Pete Davies is a Business Engineer at Automattic and you'll probably find him writing articles on the Akismet blog. Akismet is an anti-spam filter for comments. If you visit the website, Akismet is described as "possibly the best way in the world to protect you from web spam", which from my experience is not far […]

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WordPress Developer Tools

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: January 5th, 2012

During the last 3 years while providing web-design and development solutions to our clients over at Reflection Media, we're tried our best to optimize our processes and development time by reusing code, creating a database of often used code snipets and constructing generalist plugins when possible. While this didn't always work out as expected, we've […]

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Beginner’s Guide to: What Is WordPress?

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: February 15th, 2017

Ever now and again the question arises with new clients that aren't really tech savvy: "What Is WordPress?" What I'm hoping to achieve with this post is to drop the technical jargon for a minute and explain in down to earth words what is WordPress, how can it help you, what is WordPress.com, what's a […]

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WordPress Automatic Updates Based on Folder Name. Is That a Problem?

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: July 13th, 2011

Automatic Updates are great. They are one of the best if not THE best feature WordPress has. I've loved it since it was introduced in 2.7 (2.5 for plugins) and it's something that really makes my life easier. If I'm not mistaken, WordPress automatic updates for themes and plugins are based on the folder name […]

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Profile Builder Pro is WordPress Registration Done Right

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: October 9th, 2023

Let's face it. WordPress default registration process is no good. Hard to customize, hard to integrate it in your theme and not that user friendly. Profile Builder Pro is WordPress Registration Done Right Super easy to customize. Chose from the default styling it comes with or just add css to your theme and you're done. […]

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wpMail.me – a concise, once weekly free roundup of WordPress news and articles

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: May 23rd, 2011

wpMail.me is a concise, once-weekly free round up of news and articles. It's main goal is to ease some of the information overload we encounter in our daily computing by providing with a list of curated articles, news and tutorials. Also since it's once a week you can batch process it all in 1 hour […]

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Professional WordPress Plugin Development review

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: March 22nd, 2011

It's been a while since I've reviewed books on this blog and I think it's about time to start doing that again. And I couldn't have chosen a better book to start with then "Professional WordPress Plugin Development" written by Brad Williams, Ozh Richard and Justin Tadlock. This is the book I’ve been waiting for […]

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Cozy Child Theme

Author: Cristian Antohe
Last Updated: December 13th, 2021

This elegant Wordpress theme started as a custom project but ended up as a Child Theme for the Thematic Framework. It's a warm design that makes you feel comfortable.

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