If you are looking for a way to speed up writing posts then Insights may be the answer. It quickly finds and inserts links, photos, videos and maps in to posts and pages. Continue reading 'Plugin Review: Insights'

Copies external (linked) images to the WordPress gallery when post is saved making images editable. Continue reading 'Plugin Review: Add Linked Images To Gallery'

Your WordPress set-up may have a favicon that you've created or that comes as part of your current theme. However by default it is not used for the admin area. Admin Favicon adds a custom favicon to your WordPress admin area. Continue reading 'Plugin Review: Admin Favicon'

At the bottom of this site you will see that I state that all pages have been translated automatically. I've been asked often why I do this. I work with Spanish and English speaking clients however I don't have the time to produce two versions of everything I write. Continue reading 'Auto-translation'

Its a sobering fact and one that I can testify to - most websites will be hacked at some stage. The ones most likely to be targeted are ones using programs such as WordPress due to its popularity. There are many ways to secure WordPress but this should be considered one of the first steps and is simply a plugin that can be installed quickly and simply. Continue reading 'Hiding That Your Site Runs WordPress'

Thesis is a very popular commercial template/framework for WordPress. It offers beautiful layout and typography along with solid cross-browser support. Many layout features such as number of columns and colours are set as options in admin rather than having to edit code. Although its great it only goes so far before ... Continue reading 'Save/Restore Thesis Settings with Plugin'