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Merge WordPress Tags Easily and Quickly for a Leaner, Better Site

By  in May 17th 2013   No Comment »
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In a way, tags in WordPress are like categories. They are meant to group similar topics together in a way that makes them easily accessible (i.e. by clicking on a tag link and seeing all the posts marked with that descriptor).

The problem a lot of people run into is that they end up assigning too many tags to their posts. This defeats the purpose of tags. If you only end up with one or two posts with that tag, it hardly deserves its own “category.”

As mentioned, tags are somewhat like categories — but just a little more specific. For example, here at WPMU, we obviously don’t think the term “tags” is big enough or important enough for its own category. However, I am going to tag this post “tags” because it seems like an important enough/big enough topic that other posts will also touch on it some significant way.

I’m NOT, however, going to tag this post “merge tags.” That topic isn’t large enough to have a significant number of other posts that talk about that.

To be honest, I might have done that in the past, but we’ve come to realize it’s not really that valuable. And so we’re actually in the middle of cleaning up our “tag problem” by deleting many and merging the rest.

If you’ve got a tag problem too, read on.

How to Merge Your Tags

In order to help you merge your tags, I’m going recommend you use a plugin called Term Management Tools.

Once that’s installed, you’ll need to hop on over to your tag screen (Posts > Tags).

Get Rid of Unused Tags

Probably the very first thing you should do before you start merging is to start deleting. You may find a number of tags will be hard to merge with others. You might also find that somehow you’ve ended up with tags that aren’t assigned to any post at all.

On your tag page, if you click on the “Posts” link on the right, it will arrange your tags by the number of times they’re assigned to a post. I’d start by checking the box for all the ones that say “0” and then using the pull-down menu at the top and deleting them.

Get Rid of “Difficult” Tags

You can then start looking down through your other tags and seeing if there are any you know you can delete right away – i.e. tags that not many posts use and that will be difficult to merge with others. Again, the best candidates here will be the ones that are assigned to only a few posts.

As before, check the box next to the name of the tag, and then use the pull-down menu at the top.

If you have a large number of tags, you may want to increase the number you can see on one screen by pulling down the Screen Options panel at the top and bumping that number up.

Merge Remaining Tags

Assuming you’ve got the Term Management Tools plugin active, you can now get to merging your tags.

Go through your remaining list and check all those that should be merged together into one term.

In my example, I am checking the tag “blue” and the tag “blue things.” From the pull-down menu at the top, I choose “Merge.”

When I choose “Merge,” another box appears just to the right of the pull-down menu. I simply write the name of the tag both of those tags will be merged into. In my case, I’m writing in the name “blue.” But you don’t have to write the name of an existing tag here. You can write the name of a completely new tag.

Click “Apply,” and your tags will be merged.

If you have a lot of tags, this process may take a while, but it will be worth it in the end. It will be better for your users, and you can give up the tag addiction that so many of us are afflicted with.

(Note: Once the job is done, you can delete this plugin from your site. No use keeping unused plugins around.)

Photo: Red Tag from BigStock

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A 10 Year Visual History of WordPress.org

By  in May 16th 2013   No Comment »
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May 27th will mark the 10th birthday for WordPress, which started as a fork by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little from the b2evolution blogging software.

In fact, in good internet fashion, you can see some of the very first stirrings of WordPress in a post where Matt laments that b2 hasn’t been updated in a while, and he’s thinking of splitting off from it. The first commenter on that post is Mike Little saying, “If you’re serious about forking b2 I would be interested in contributing.”

And WordPress was born.

In order to celebrate the occasion, we thought we’d take a look back at these last 10 years. No doubt you will be seeing a lot of “looking back” posts over the next few weeks, going over features that have been added and important decisions that have been made.

But in this post we thought we’d take a different tack. With the help of the Wayback Machine from archive.org, we thought we’d go take a look at how WordPress.org itself has changed stylistically over the years. For those of us who spend a lot of time on the site, it might take us back.

Although it still holds to its roots of uncluttered simplicity today, there have been a number changes along the way. Take a look for yourself.

June 18, 2003

This was the first screenshot we could get a hold of, and so we’ll start here. As the official birthday is in May, and we find ourselves in May now, from here on out we will sample each year from a date in May.

About Page

It might also be interesting to take a look at the first About page for the site. You’ll notice a few interesting things there. One of the more interesting is a mention that the name “WordPress” itself came from Christine Tremoulet of BigPinkCookie.com. (Yes, her blog runs WordPress.)

Utilities?

You might notice an odd menu item there that you aren’t used to – “Utilities.” Here’s what that page consisted of.

 

By July 29th, however, the name “Utilities” had been changed to “Hacks.”

Showing Off the Goods

Of course it’s a good idea to show off the wares to potential users, and so screenshots were included. Here’s a look at the first editor:

 

You can see more screenshots here.

It’s interesting to note that the WordPress.org site these days doesn’t seem to advertise screenshots of the backend. Perhaps because it’s free and easy to install, no look at the backend is really needed.

May 2004

Taking a look at the site the next year, we see a few changes.

Of course one change is the dark, right-side column where WordPress features are highlighted. Another little change is the shadow against the background.

Donate

In the menu, we also see a Donate button has been added. Taking a look at that page, we see a somewhat vague promise of “additional benefits.” OK, not a “somewhat “ vague promise — a completely vague promise.

Screenshots

And we also get a look at the updated editor.

May 2005

In 2005, things look pretty much the same, but we can see by the top menu that a blog has been added and a section to recommend web hosts.

Screenshots

In the screenshots section, you’ll notice that they’ve begun advertising themes in a more upfront way.

One other little note here. You may notice a little banner in the top right-hand corner that WordPress had been named Application of the Year by ArsTechnica. Here’s what they said: “WordPress is the most prominent rising star of weblog software, completely free and with a large and active community. Styles, plugins and hacks are readily available, with problems such as comment spamming being addressed far more rapidly than competing applications.”

And here’s a screenshot of the editor for that time.

May 2006

In 2006 we see a lighter, cleaner look with the removal of the background image. We now also see some navigation on the left. You might also notice the “Donate” button is now gone.

Themes and Plugins

In the menu, you’ll notice the first section for plugins and themes called “Extend.”

 

If we take a look at the themes section, you can see there were six! And you viewed their thumbnails by scrolling from left to right.

May 2007

No real changes to the homepage this year, and so we won’t include it here. Also, though there was the beginning of a theme directory, by May of 2007, it seems to have been eliminated. However, you can see that the plugin directory had really started to take off.

Year 2008

By 2008, the homepage had taken on a heavier look with a dark gray header area.

Plugins

In 2008 the plugin section had been reorganized (still no theme directory at this point). You’ll also notice some stats:

2,181 plugins, 4,082,686 downloads, and counting

At the time of this writing, those stats stand as follows:

24,897 plugins, 453,551,157 downloads, and counting

May 2009

The next year saw only a few minor changes to the homepage, but you’ll notice a menu item for “Showcase” at the top now – a chance to show off sites out in the public using WordPress. It seems the Showcase was added in the fall of 2008.

 

By May of 2009, the theme directory was also back … in full force. (Technically it seems to have arrived in 2008.)

May 2010

No major changes seem to have occurred to homepage by May of 2010.

May 2011

By May of 2011 we see a return to a lighter homepage.

May 2012

In May of 2012 we see a few important menu changes. The “Extend” section has been broken out into “Plugins” and “Themes,” but more importantly, we see a sign of the times with an addition of a “Mobile” button.

 

We can also see that the plugin section has gotten a lot of love in the last year, including the addition of fancy headers, a star rating system, and a more integrated support area.

May 2013

And finally we arrive at today. We see a return to a darker header.

 

We also see a new menu item at the top called “Get Involved.” This pulls down to reveal a number of different areas of the site where you can learn more about the behind-the-scenes process of putting WordPress together, as well as where you can begin to help yourself.

 

And so not only do we have to end there, but it’s also an appropriate place to end. WordPress has made it ten years with the help of a lot of different people pitching in from all over the world. If you feel so inclined, and you’d like to see ten more years of improvement, then think about joining in here.

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The Naked WordPress Theme: A Crash Course For Designers

By  in May 16th 2013   No Comment »
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Here’s the scenario: You’re brand new to WordPress and you’ve been asked by your client to use it for their new website. You’ve created a beautiful design but have very limited time to learn about how to theme WordPress. You look to the codex but it has more information than you need and it’s difficult to piece it all together.

When you browse the code in the default WordPress theme, you have no idea what any of it does and you are running out of time. You need a crash course in the worst way. You need the Naked WordPress Theme.


“The solution for designers who don’t know WordPress”

Learn how to theme WordPress with the Naked WordPress theme

The Naked WordPress theme was created by Joshua Beckman to be “The solution for designers who don’t know WordPress”.

This is not your ordinary bare bones theme, stripped of everything but the essentials. Naked WordPress assumes that you know nothing about WordPress and includes comments on all aspects of the theme. Every single piece of the template files is commented so that you can understand what it does. Armed with that knowledge you can safely rearrange and customize your theme. You’ll be able to remove pieces without worrying about deleting something essential.

Here’s a quick example of just how useful the Naked WordPress theme is for beginners. If you’re brand new to WordPress, you probably have no idea what wp_head() does. Naked WordPress clues you in to how important it is so that you don’t screw things up:

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<?php wp_head(); 
// This fxn allows plugins, and WordPress itself, to insert themselves/scripts/css/files 
// (right here) into the head of your website. 
// Removing this fxn call will disable all kinds of plugins and WordPress default insertions. 
// Move it if you like, but I would keep it around.
?>

With this kind of commenting built into the theme, there’s no need to look things up in the codex when you’re building in a hurry. The functions are neatly summarized and commented inline to save you time.

Naked WordPress features:

  • Responsive styling
  • Custom menus
  • Custom sidebar and widgets
  • Blog, with all the WordPress goodies we know and love (comments, categories, tags, etc.)
  • Pages, Home page


Naked WordPress is the perfect starter theme for anyone who is new to WordPress.

Check out a live demo by visiting the Naked WordPress homepage. As you can see, it’s nothing but the basics and all the comments are neatly hidden within the php template files, which are not visible to your visitors.

Of course, reading up on the codex and learning all the ins and outs of WordPress theming is highly recommended if you want to be able to expertly navigate it and create your own themes. However, if you’re more interested in designing the theme than building it, then the Naked Theme will help to keep things moving while you’re still learning WordPress. It functions as both a starter theme and a crash course all in one.

Download the Naked WordPress theme for free from its homepage and follow the project on github. If it helps you build something, consider showing a little love to the developer by way of a donation.

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The WordPress Planet is Pants – and here’s how to improve it

By  in May 16th 2013   No Comment »
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Since back in the day I’ve had a keen interest in the WordPress Planet, sure sometimes it’s been a bit snarky, but at the end of the day I am genuinely interested in good WP news coming through the pipes into my various dashboards.

And of course, from a business perspective I could hardly be more interested… man I’d love to have WPMU.org in there, since the early days it’s been the holy grail of ‘writing about WordPress’ publishing.

But let’s be honest, these days it’s a waste of space, an afterthought, a void and a vacuum, it’s tumbleweed across a deserted dashboard… in short, it’s pants.

And I think, especially with 10 years coming up, it’s about time it was sorted out.

Specifically, let’s:

  1. Remove the pointless, non-updated, irrelevant & repetitive stuff (see below for the complete teardown)
  2. Add in some of the massive amounts of good stuff out there (see below that)
  3. Not let people ‘buy their way’ into it
  4. Actually make it work.

So, without further ado…

So, what is the WordPress Planet… and why should I care?

Well, that’s easy, it’s this aggregation of ‘blogs talking about WordPress’, which goes into the dashboard of every WordPress site as ‘Other WordPress News’ [headlines only]


The WP Plate as it appears on the Dashboard today, riveting huh

Historically this has been the place where people are supposed to go to to get their WP news, resources, information and increasingly tutorials.

Along with occasional controversy.

It’s included in something stupid like 60,000,000 WordPress sites, by default.

And what’s the policy for inclusion, well it’s pretty simple

This is an aggregation of blogs talking about WordPress from around the world. If you think your blog should be part of this send an email to Matt.

It’s Matt’s list, that’s taken care of that then.

And it’s been stagnant, or worse, pretty much since it’s inception, specifically because of…

Who is on the Planet… should they be?

Here’s the complete list, with my thoughts attached, would be interested in others, I’m by no means the expert in this.

Essentially my criteria is whether these feeds are adding value to a WordPress user by being in there, or not, along with a dash of whether  they are updated and/or any good.

Also, I’m going to take the position that commercial entities shouldn’t be there.

Results:

Keep = 10
Remove = 20

Ooo, controversial, so why no WP Tavern or WLTC?

As I mentioned above, both are now folded / retired / rebirthed and both now owned by unknowns, or maybe the same unknown!

And in the ultra-competitive space of WordPress publishing (we’re all doing this for a reason, let’s not kid anyone, advertising, WPMU DEV, other revenue streams, our egos…) both are gaining a massive commercial and competitive advantage over other sites in the space.

Surely that shouldn’t be for sale? It just doesn’t seem right.

Buying up a site shouldn’t guarantee you entry into the WordPress Planet, if anything it should get that site kicked out until it can prove that the new posts and alike are gonna be of as decent a standard as before!

And I mean, wannabee Valleywag WP Candy was included and then taken out again (for being basically pants too, I think). So it’s not like these things aren’t done and considered. I wonder when and/or why the chap upstairs removed them.

I’d say that until WLTC demonstrates if it’s going to get back on its feet and start doing good WP stuff, then it shouldn’t be included.

And that WP Tavern should probably also be put on probation, at least until we know who is behind it and what their motives are… as well as asking whether it’s covering or offering the kind of stuff we are after.

And who should replace them?

Because there are a lot of excellent sites about WordPress out there, and not in the Planet, that are far, far better.

Obviously WPMU would provide a completely non commercial feed if asked, but we’re not going to be, so that being said I reckon that, we should see:

  • WP Daily – John’s transparent enough and doing a good enough job to warrant inclusion
  • WP Mail – A web version of this should absolutely be included, it’s the best aggregation (alongside WP Daily’s) of what’s going on
  • Smashing Mag WP Section – Great, detailed, quality, in-depth articles, why on earth not?
  • WP Tuts + – Clearly Envato are back in the good books, having 1% GPL products is enough, yay, why not give ‘em a slot

And also…

In my opinion these sites all offer fantastic, regular, fairly unbiased and mostly non commercial useful news, information and resources about WordPress… why not make that the criteria and shake up the Planet a bit.

How does that sound? Got any other suggestions, leave ‘em in the comments.

And while we’re at it…

How can we make The Planet actually work?

Well, howabout we stop thinking about it as an afterthought.

With as many people using WordPress as there are currently are, why can’t Matt / Automattic / The WP Foundation / The Community actually get it right on WordPress.org and in WP dashboards the world over.

Let’s start with removing the fluff and bringing in the good.

And then let’s let (or pay, in $s or links) Christian and Bianca curate it – and make it a proper big deal… not just an item in the dashboard (although we can keep that) but a weekly notification in the WP backend (easily turned off) that says…

Let’s celebrate the wonderful World of WordPress news, let’s not hide, it’s a huge strength.

And last, but not least, let’s make an editorial code for the setup and a board to enforce it, something like:

  • Strictly non commercial work, not promoting any one product (products must be reviewed)
  • Fair and unbiased
  • No affiliate stuff ever, whatsoever, under any circumstances
  • No advertising within posts (only on your own site)

And anything else you can think of.

It’s not rocket science, it’s just making some effort and doing it properly.

What say you?

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How To Clean Up Unused Plugins in WordPress Multisite

By  in May 15th 2013   No Comment »
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Do you ever find yourself staring at a long list of installed plugins, wondering which ones are safe to delete? WordPress multisite networks can bulk up on plugins fairly quickly. Every now and then a good old-fashioned spring cleaning is in order.

Checking through each site on your network to see what plugins are in use is simply not an option. The task is much too tedious for a busy site admin like yourself. That’s where Plugin Activation Status saves the day. It essentially performs a plugin audit so that you can get rid of any extra baggage.

Find and dump all your unused plugins

When you first activate the plugin, you’ll see this screen with an empty list, located at Network Admin >> Plugins >> Active Plugins.


The list is empty until you generate the report.

Click continue to generate the lists. Don’t do this during peak traffic time if you have a massive network as it might cause slow downs.

Plugin Activation Status will produce two lists:

  • A list of plugins that are not currently active on any sites or networks
  • A list of plugins that are active somewhere within the installation, accompanied by details of where and how those plugins are activated


Plugin Activation Status locates all unused plugins

The most useful feature of this plugin is that it quickly lets you know how many plugins you can safely dump. You can also examine the plugins that are used on only a few sites to see if there are any among those that you could also get rid of, much like cleaning out your closet. New lists can be generated on demand as often as you want to clean out your network plugins.

Please note that this plugin is only for multisite networks, as it does not make sense for single site installs.

A good WordPress admin must clean up after himself.

Installing plugins just to try them out and not deleting them is a nasty habit. Sure, you’re in a hurry, but later on you’ll forget why you added those plugins and wonder if you’re really using them. Removing unused plugins is an important part of multisite maintenance. You’ll be able to see issues more clearly when troubleshooting if you have fewer plugins active, minimize security risks and keep your site leaner. Install Plugin Activation Status and it will tell you exactly which plugins you can dump for spring cleaning.

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How to Insert WordPress Photo Galleries Anywhere Into Your Theme

By  in May 14th 2013   No Comment »
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Last December WordPress dramatically stepped up the way media was handled. It improved the Media Library, the Media Manager, and even default WordPress photo galleries. (Check out that link if you want a tutorial on creating galleries.)

Those efforts at the end of last year really made working with galleries much easier and more pleasurable. And so if you’ve been enjoying the new galleries as I have, you may like this little trick that will allow you to put galleries pretty much anywhere you like in your site.

You do this by creating a gallery in a Page and then inserting some code into your theme’s template.

Besides being able to put a gallery pretty much anywhere, another nice feature of this trick is that you can easily go back into your gallery page and change it as you like  – adding photos, deleting photos, rearranging photos, etc. And of course all those changes will immediate take place on your site as well.

You’ll need to dig into the code once to set it up, but after that, changing things up is as easy as working with galleries through the media manager.

3 Steps to Inserting Galleries in Your Theme

Here’s a quick overview of the steps involved. We’ll go into details below.

  1. Create a gallery in a Page
  2. Find the Page ID
  3. Insert a little bit of code into your theme’s template

1. Create a Gallery in a Page


Think about columns.

As mentioned earlier, there’s a complete tutorial for inserting a WordPress gallery if you need it. In this post, we’ll assume you already know how to build one.

When you create your gallery, you will need to take into consideration where your gallery will go.

For example, let’s say you’d like to put your gallery into your sidebar. When you set your gallery up, one choice you’ll need to make is how many columns the gallery will have. If it’s going in your sidebar, for example, then you’ll probably want to keep the columns at one.

(Note: there is no option for rows, but we’ll talk about this later.)

If you set the columns for three, then you may get something that looks like this:

If you set your columns to one – which your sidebar has space for – then it will look like this.

The same is true for putting your gallery other places, of course. For example, say you want to put a gallery across the top all your pages by putting it in the header.

More than likely the best look will be stringing the thumbnails side-by-side all the way across the top in one row. (Of course you can do more than one row too, but you’ll probably want the thumbnails to be as close together as possible.)

For example, take a look at this page with thumbnails in three columns. The columns will spread themselves out to fit the width of the page. That leaves a lot of wasted space and takes up a lot of room (especially in a spot like the top of every page).

Now look at an arrangement that has all the thumbnails in one row.

(As mentioned, there is no “row” function in the gallery. You control the look by columns. And so in order to get one row, you just need to set the columns to be the same number as the number of thumbnails in your gallery. In this example, because I had six images, I set my gallery to have six columns.)

Again, you can have more than one row if you like. But in order to maximize space, it’s probably better in a case like this if you have more than one row only if there are too many images to fit on one row.

In the example below, I left the columns set to six, but I added six more images to my gallery.

2. Find the Page ID

The next thing you will need to do is to find the Page ID for the page with your gallery. You can see full instructions for doing that in this post.

3. Insert Code

The final step is to insert the following code in your theme’s template files where  you want your gallery to appear. (Appearance > Editor)

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<?php
$id = ID#;
$p = get_page($id);
echo apply_filters('the_content', $p->post_content);
?>

You will need to insert your actual Page ID into the spot that says ID#. For example, if my page ID is 2428, my code in that section will look like this:

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$id = 2428;

Or the complete bit of code again with the ID in place:

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<?php
$id = 2428;
$p = get_page($id);
echo apply_filters('the_content', $p->post_content);
?>

And so that’s it. Just add that bit of code, and you’re ready to go.

Where to Put Your Galleries

As mentioned, you can put your galleries practically anywhere, you’ll just need to think about things such as layout and columns, etc.

Here are a few places you may think about putting different galleries:

  1. All Category Pages – Put a gallery on all category pages by placing the code in category.php (or archive.php if category.php doesn’t exist)
  2. Different Categories – You can put different galleries in different category pages (e.g. a “fruit gallery” on your fruit category page and a “vegetable gallery” on your vegetable category page, etc.) In order to do this, you’ll need to create individual category templates.
  3. Header — Put galleries at the top of every page by placing the code in your header.php file
  4. Footer – Put galleries at the bottom of every page by placing the code in your footer.php file
  5. Pages – Put galleries only on Pages (not posts). You’ll need to put the code in your page.php file.
  6. Posts – Put galleries only on the post pages where your full posts appear (i.e. not on the homepage, category pages, etc.). You’ll need to put the code in your single.php file.

Get Your Wheels Spinning

Don’t forget that you can link a gallery thumbnail to any page you like. Your thumbnails don’t need to simply link to a larger version of the image. They can link anywhere. … This may get some wheels spinning.

Also, while we’re talking specifically about photo galleries here, this little trick works for any content you put into the Page you created – text, single images, videos, etc. So let your imagination run free.

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30 Brand New WordPress Themes

By  in May 12th 2013   No Comment »
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GREAT NEWS :  30 BRAND NEW WORDPRESS THEMES Now AVAILABLE

We are proud to now offer a new range of 30 wordpress themes that are fully tested with our network and plugins and all install with a single click .Once Installed you simply change the text, add a logo and images and your live.

 

 

 

toommorel-lite1   colorway1     figero1

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GREAT NEWS :  30 BRAND NEW WORDPRESS THEMES NOW AVAILABLE

We are proud to now offer a new range of 30 wordpress themes that are fully tested with our network and plugins and all install with a single click .Once Installed you simply change the text, add a logo and images and your live.

We have even built a live demo for every theme with a features page giving you a theme overview.

A Lite version of all the themes are also available for  basic members and we added features page to show you whats included with theme.

 

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Free Global Product Search Widget For MarketPress

By  in May 11th 2013   No Comment »
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MP Product Search Widget

We’ve got some great community members at WPMU DEV who are building awesome extensions to our products. The very latest is a free plugin from MarketPressThemes.com that provides a beautiful interface for searching and sorting products across a network of stores.

Solid multisite compatibility is one of the reasons that MarketPress is so popular. There is no better WordPress e-commerce plugin for operating multiple stores with one global shopping cart. This new extension compliments MarketPress’ built-in multisite capabilities.

The MP Product Search Widget plugin features:

  • Advanced Product Search Options – narrow down the search through different parameters, such as category, tag, and price range.
  • Compatible with Multisite for Global Searches – allow customers to make global product searches across your MarketPress network – just like Etsy.com does it.
  • Built to Impress – display all the search results in a nice, beautiful modal view, together with product thumbnail, price, and ‘buy now’ button for each item.
  • Advanced Sorting Options - allow your customers to sort the search results based on different parameters, such as release date, title, price, sales.
  • Powered by AJAX – perform high-level search queries without crashing the server.
Product search results load in a modal window

Multisite Compatible: Global Product Search Widget

Global product search widget options

The MP Product Search Widget plugin also includes a separate widget for multisite installations that gives users the ability to search the network. This functions in a similar way to Etsy.com searches across multiple stores.

Configuration options are the same as the single store search widget. The only difference is that it searches all stores.

Click here to read more

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52% of Top 100 Blogs Use WordPress

By  in May 9th 2013   No Comment »
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According to a report from Pingdom.com, 52 out of the Technorati Top 100 blogs use WordPress as their platform of choice, up from 48 blogs last year. Four years ago, that number stood at 32.

These numbers are somewhat affected by one organization, the NY Times, having seven blogs on the list and another organization, Wired, having three blogs on the list. That said, no one can doubt that the trend for WordPress has been an upward one.

The following chart is from Pingdom.com.

And here’s a list comparing last year’s results and this year’s results.

To see a list of what each of the Top 100 use, head on over to the Pingdom report.

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