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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 […]

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. […]

There's a new version of Profile Builder WordPress plugin. It features the following new features: New interface Create Extra User Fields (like birthdate or education level) Add avatar upload for users and automatic integration with any theme that uses get_avatar() Shortcodes for login, register and edit profile to use in pages and widgets. Select what […]

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 […]

Custom post types for Wordpress support comments, however the API doesn't allow for retrieving those comments. So in order to get the latest comments from your custom post type you need to do an sql query that does a LEFT OUTER JOIN between the comments table and the posts table: /* Get recent comments */ […]

Easily Login, Register and Edit your Profile Directly from the Front-end Profile Builder lets you add front-end forms that give your users a more flexible way to register, log in, and modify their profile information. If you allow public registration on your site, you don't want to force your users to use the backend WordPress […]

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 […]

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.

With Thematic 0.9.7.7 there are a couple of changes made to the way it works. One of those changes was the inclusion of a few constants, that based on their value lets you chose whether you want the default WordPress functionality or the more powerful (and complex) Thematic functionality. I'm talking here about whether you […]

While a bit late, we finally managed to get all Child Themes that are free for download updated to work with the latest Thematic (# Version: 0.9.7.7). Early Morning, Street and Byty now make use of the WordPress 3.0 menu system, while Commune now makes use of the Featured thumbnail image that comes with WordPress […]