Over at ThemingWP, we wanted to introduce a new taxonomy – brands. A taxonomy dedicated to theme vendors like StudioPress and WooThemes. Brands would become the third taxonomy, next to the default categories and tags. The names of the vendors were already in the database – as tags. This means we had to extract the vendor names from the tags, and ... [Read more]
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Putting your foot down – keep the footer at the bottom of the page
While setting up a new website, have you ever experienced that the page footer is floating somewhere halfway the page? Usually this resolves itself as soon as you start publishing content. But when you also publish smaller posts, or use post formats and publish for example links and quotes, you might encounter those mid-air footers regularly. Although, I ... [Read more]
Moving from FeedBurner to MailChimp – a complete migration guide
Until last week, e-mail subscribers to this blog were served through FeedBurner. Last Monday, the e-mail addresses of these subscribers were moved to MailChimp. In case you are thinking about moving from FeedBurner to MailChimp too, this post will show you how to accomplish that successfully. When you are not convinced yet why you should migrate over to ... [Read more]
Goodbye FeedBurner, Hello MailChimp
Back in 2012, when I started this blog, FeedBurner was the e-mail service to go for bloggers offering visitors the ability to subscribe through RSS. As most of you, I really do not know what Google's intentions are with FeedBurner. Does Google know? There is a lot of rumor that they are going to shut down FeedBurner. As far as I know, Google has never confirmed ... [Read more]
Install WordPress on your Windows PC in four easy steps
The best approach to learning is playing. This is also true for WordPress. Even when you have mastered WordPress and your blog is up and running steadily, it is good to have a local WordPress installation for testing new versions of WordPress, themes and plugins. Or develop new websites. Your own, or your clients'. A prerequisite for a local install of WordPress is a ... [Read more]
Install a XAMPP web server on your Windows PC in five easy steps
Okay! So, you want to install a Apache web server on your Windows PC. Good for you! A local web server allows you to play around with WordPress, themes and plugins without the world following every step you take. And no matter how experienced you are with WordPress, you will always need a place to experiment. Besides that, a local web server it is also a great ... [Read more]
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