I am amazed with community activity these days. While we are busy finishing 3.8, other developers all around the world are launching nifty add-ons for the WP e-Commerce Plugin. I heard from the guys at Store Apps about Smart Manager a while ago. Unfortunately I couldn’t test it fully (since most of my time is spend in [...

In celebration of BackupBuddy’s successful year of backing up WordPress sites (over 16,000 to date!) we’ve been hard at work in once again setting the bar higher for WordPress backup solutions with BackupBuddy version 2.0. With well over 75 new features and enhancements this version is sure to further improve and strengthen the power that BackupBuddy puts in your hands...

If you’ve done a little research into marketing your website you’ve probably run across the term “link building” – and naturally one easy and fast way to do this it to guest post on blogs. And there limitless blogs around you are able to post on. However link building is not the end all be all of guest blogging...

New plugins

Jetpack supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.

jQuery Vertical Mega Menu can handle multiple vertical mega menus per page, offers 3 different animation effects and speeds for displaying the mega menu and can select the flyout direction – left or right...

With all of the different types of vertical menu WordPress plugins out there it can sometimes be confusing as to what is the best option for your own WordPress site.

Today we review the 3 vertical menu plugins available on this site and summarise which one to use for each situation.

The Vertical Menu Options

jQuery Vertical Accordion Menu Plugin

jQuery Vertical Mega Menu Plugin

jQuery Drill Down iPod Menu Plugin

When considering a menu type the main thing to take into account is the number of levels of the menu...

The latest update to the jQuery Vertical Accordion Menu plugin for WordPress now offers the option of adding a count of the number of links under each parent menu item.

For multi-level menus this offers improved useability and provides a visual indication of the options available to the user.

To enable this option just check the “Show Count” box in the widget control panel...

New plugins

Category Listings outputs a list of posts enclosed in a set of DIV tags – the class for this DIV can be configured in the admin options.

IE6 Countdown shows the IE6 countdown banner from Microsoft to visitors using IE6.

Updated plugins

AddThis allows any visitor to bookmark and share your site easily with many popular services...

Back in the day, there were great features available to WordPress.com users that were not available on self-hosted WordPress installs. Jetpack is a plugin that connects to WordPress.com and enables awesome features, powered by their cloud infrastructure.

Jetpack itself is, and always will be free. Some individual features that Jetpack provides will be free, but others in the future may require payment...

As a WordPress designer or developer, sometimes you may find yourself editing the core files of a specific WordPress plugin. Usually this happens when you are trying to customize the plugin over its limits. This can also happen if you found a bug in the plugin, and you want to fix it for your clients...

One week has passed and we have had a few hiccups but nothing too big,, I hope this will be the last RC before the Final stable gets launched as we plan to roll out a few bug fixes into 3.8.1 quite quickly after the launch (say a month compared to 14months!) Required Changes Made [...]