WordPress Creation Kit consists of three brand new modules that can help you with the tough task of creating and maintaining custom post types, custom taxonomies and most importantly, custom fields and metaboxes for your posts, pages or CPT's. Why another plugin for this? We've actually started working on this more then a year ago, […]
Continue ReadingI've been working lately on a redesign / re-branding of Cozmoslabs. Designing for your self is one of the most annoying things I've ever done. It's hard to say "this is good, let's leave it like that". There's always that feeling that something better can exist. And I'm sure it does exist... so I'm going […]
Continue ReadingPete 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 […]
Continue ReadingDuring 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 […]
Continue ReadingEver 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 […]
Continue ReadingAutomatic 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 […]
Continue ReadingLet'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. […]
Continue ReadingThere'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 […]
Continue ReadingwpMail.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 […]
Continue ReadingCustom 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 */ […]
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