10 useful new WordPress hacks
WordPress is the platform of choice for most bloggers, and WordPress hacks is one of the most popular topics on CatsWhoCode. This is why I’ve decided to compile 10 new and extremely useful hack for WordPress.
Optimizing WordPress
Remove comments autolinks
If someone leaves a comment containing a url, the url will be automatically transformed to a link by WordPress. This can be useful, but personally I don’t like to see many links in comments, especially when they’re a bit spammy.
10 Awesome Websites That Help You Discover the Best Web Apps
If you’re watching the blogosphere close enough, you can observe a new trend coming along pretty quick – the application blog, whether is focused on iPhone apps, Mac apps, Air apps, web apps, or all of them.
Discover the Best Web Apps
Today we’re gonna talk about the best web apps blogs, with daily tools that will save you lots of time or – on the contrary – gonna lose the whole day playing with. Please feel free to suggest others in the comments.
Google This – 13 Years of World Domination Visualized
September 15, 1997. That was the day Larry Page and Sergey Brin officially registered the domain google.com, and the internet was never the same.
Google This – 13 Years of World Domination
Because true inspiration – and innovation – can really transform the World, today we bring a selection of data-visualizations that show how Google stepped up to be the giant that we all know today. I also recommend a visit at Wikipedia’s article for a more “text” version of this incredible path.
The History
Google’s history is one of those amazing tales of “American Dream meets geniuses on the right moment”. A little bit of that history:
50+ Beautiful Flash Websites for Your Inspiration
Flash websites can be amazing and they can, on the other hand, be awful. Like any powerful and versatile technology, Flash can be overused and misused. The advent (nearly) of HTML5 as competition for Flash will probably be just as overused and misused once it is in place.
50+ Beautiful Flash Websites
As a non-developer of any kind, I don’t foresee HTML5 making Flash redundant, to me that is like saying the Music System could make the TV set redundant – I think they will sit nicely together, have their own place and function, but possibly also work side by side – but I reiterate: I am not a developer.
In these days of high technology, it is unusual for a new breed to over-ride existing technology altogether. If developers continue to stay ‘on top of the game’, there is no reason why there is not room for more technologies to join forces with existing ones. This collection of Flash websites is designed to illustrate the huge job the developers of HTML5 have if they really think they can outdo Flash completely.
Top Social Bookmarking WordPress Plugins
Writing for a website used to be simple where all you need to do is produce high quality articles and your site will usually be noticed, rewarding you with a good amount of traffic and eyeballs. However, this could be an expiring ideology. Today, without a good amount of social marketing effort, chances are people will not come across your website because you are basically free from acknowledgment.
Social Bookmarking WordPress Plugins
To be fair, not everyone is a social media genius but there are definitely tips and tricks to utilize social marketing tool on your website and blog to increase attention for your articles.
It is pretty common to see sharing and voting buttons of Facebook, Digg, Twitter, StumbleUpon or others social marketing tool in a website. If you are yet to have any of these install in your website, you are potentially missing out tremendous amount of traffic your website may deserve. However, these buttons are not magic buttons.