Plugins

W3 Total Cache Updates with Admin Bar Menu

by Chris K on May 18, 2011

As I have mentioned before, one of my favorite plugins for a WordPress site is W3 Total Cache. This plugin offers you the ability to user a myriad of caching options to best suit your needs. Well with WordPress 3.1, the Admin Bar was introduced where logged in users (administrators) get a gray bar with [...]

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WordPress Dev 101: Creating your own Hooks

by Chris K on December 15, 2010

I had previously talked about using WordPress’ built in “Hooks” to make WordPress do your bidding through Plugins or Themes. Did you know it’s possible to create your own “Hooks” within your Theme or Plugin? You can create a hook by inserting the following line of code where you want to execute your function: do_action( [...]

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WordPress 101: Caching plugin-ins

by Chris K on December 4, 2010

You may have heard of them before, but do you know what they do? Or why you might want one? The world of WordPress plugins can be quite a confusing and cluttered space. One realm of plugins, however, should not be foreign to you, especially if your site get’s quite a few hits, ends up [...]

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Dropbox CDN Updates to come

by Chris K on December 2, 2010

Some of you may have read this post over at Lifehacker about the bandwidth limitations that Dropbox puts on the public folder a user shares. Well, since my Dropbox CDN plugin uses the public folder of your Dropbox account, I’m going to be including a feature that will seamlessly check to make sure that you [...]

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WordPress Dev 101: Replacing post content in-line

by Chris K on November 18, 2010

Something I did recently when I updated the Better AdSense Targeting plugin, was create the ability to allow users to specify certain sections of each post that Google should ignore when determining what ads to display. I did this by using the str_replace() function in PHP and a little thing called ‘add_filter’ from the WordPress [...]

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