How to Customize the WordPress Admin Area
WordPress is one of the best CMSs out there — if not the best (but of course, I’m biased because I’m a WordPress fanatic). It has loads of handy features that make site administration a breeze. WordPress is a publishing platform with a comment system, a GUI for creating, editing and managing posts and pages, handy built-in tools like the “Export” feature to back up your content, user roles and permissions, and more.
WordPress Admin Area
But how much of these features do we really use? Though already simple and user-friendly by default, we might want to customize the WordPress Admin interface to make it even simpler and more manageable for our clients, our co-authors, and ourselves.
Why Customize the WordPress Admin Interface?
Lately, WordPress has reached phenomenally high usage rates. There are over 25 million publishers[1] who use WordPress, making it a popular publishing platform.
WordPress 3.0: Ultimate Guide to New Features
WordPress 3.0 — the newest major version of WordPress — is one of the most highly-anticipated open source upgrades this year.
WordPress is no doubt one of the most used publishing platforms. Large websites such as Smashing Magazine, Mashable, TechCrunch, the site you’re on now, and others use it to run their high-traffic websites.
Ultimate Guide to New Features
According to the timeline on WordPress trac, WordPress 3.0 should have been released on May 1, 2010, but now, the core developers of WordPress have removed the release date because of bugs that still needs to be fixed.
There are expectations that the production version will be released in the last week of May, 2010 or in the early start of June, 2010.
WordPress 3.0 has already made so much buzz because of some major and fresh features that innovate the publishing platform’s user interface.
WordPress Custom Post Types Guide
One of the most anticipated features of WordPress 3.0 was the ability to add your own custom post types to WordPress, which allows you to display and categorize different types of content outside of the 5 native WordPress content types (i.e. Post, Page, Attachment, and so forth). The addition of this feature is a big step forward in making WordPress a full-fledged CMS, extending outside its normal use as a blogging platform.
WordPress Custom Post Types Guide
In this guide, we’ll go through the process of creating and using your own custom post type. More specifically, we will create an “Event” post type for your special events and dates, sort of like a calendar.
What is a Custom Post Type?
If you’re familiar with WordPress, then I’m sure you’ve already had some exposure to the default WordPress post types used for content creation: Post and Page. Almost all of the content in any WordPress site prior to 3.0 is composed of some combination of posts and pages.
Posts are generally used for content that is updated frequently (blog posts, for example), and pages are generally used for static content (such as the About page of a site).
Designing for Over Twenty Million Users: WordPress 3.0
WordPress 3.0 is, without doubt, one of the most exciting updates to the platform in a very long time.
As well as things that all users will notice such as custom menus, custom backgrounds and a new default theme, there are also massive additions to the code-base such as the ability to run multiple sites from a single install and custom post types.
Designing for Over Twenty Million Users: WordPress 3.0
These things bring WordPress up to speed as an extremely powerful CMS as well as a publishing platform.
Since January of this year I’ve been getting involved with the core WordPress community to contribute back to its ongoing development and today I’d love to tell you a little bit about how that works.
Getting Involved in The Community
WordPress has always had a strong development community and indeed the developers have had regular meetings and resources to organize themselves with for years.
Metro and Underground Maps Designs Around the World
In this post, we have collected some interesting metro map designs around the globe. These maps show the infrastructure of the city; each city is different from another because of the look, feel, regional culture, typography and many other things.
Metro and Underground Maps Paris
These maps would be helpful for you in exploring these differences and would also come handy when you want to find out any place in the city. As designer, you can also learn a bit or two about wayfinding graphics when analyzing these designs. So, here’s the inspiring compilation of metro maps from around the world.