Though the Twitter tweet button may have spread to hundreds of thousands of websites, here’s five good reasons it’s not a good choice for many publishers.
5 reasons why publishers shouldn’t install the Twitter tweet button
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How to update your theme with WordPress 3.0 navigation menu
Here’s how to replace your hard-to-change existing theme primary navigation menu with WordPress 3.0′s drap and drop, edit on-the-fly menu system.
Creating powerful web forms with JotForm
When it comes to getting a contact form on your WordPress installation, plugins like Contact Form 7 usually come to mind. After all, that one plugin has 2.1 million downloads and counting, and it’s easy enough to create a simple and functional web form so that readers can get in touch with you. But what [...]
You too can be like The New York Times with upPrev plugin
upPrev is a simple plugin that delivers a little bit of New York Times functionality to your WordPress install.
Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu: A must-have plugin for WordPress as CMS
Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu plugin organizes WordPress’ default left-side vertical navigation into a horizontal navigation bar with vertical drop-down menus. Sure, it’s a simple change. But it’s a big time and frustration saver.
How to add pull quotes in your WordPress posts
Pull quotes have long been used by print publications to jazz up design and draw readers’ attention. If you’re using WordPress as a CMS, why not spice up your blog or story posts, especially if they’re lengthy?
How self-hosted WordPress can and should power journalism
WordPress is a content management system. It’s also a CMS that works well for journalism large and small and whose use for journalism by both professionals and citizens will only continue to grow. Reality check: There are very few great content management systems being used as platforms for journalism. Plenty of newspapers—and broadcast television sites especially—use clumsy systems with feature sets still in the stone ages of the internet. Even worse, these systems are skinned by ugly stylesheets and confusing user interfaces. We wouldn’t want our newspaper pages to be ugly or hard to navigate, so why are so many news websites exactly that?
