Stories posted by Dave Clements

A Better Planet – a Replacement for the WordPress Planet Widget

Oli Dale has taken swift action and created a revised dashboard widget called A Better Planet for getting more relevant WordPress news in your dashboard. read more »

Elegant Themes – Portfolio Themes Review and Giveaway

Elegant Themes have an excellent array of Portfolio themes for WordPress, and they want to offer three lucky readers a lifetime membership to their site. read more »

New Gravity Forms Add-on – Surveys

Gravity Forms have released a new add-on that allows you to create surveys, making collecting feedback from your users easier than ever. read more »

Symple Shortcodes – A Plugin for Adding Style Elements to WordPress

Symple Shortcodes allows you to add style elements (like dividers and buttons) to your posts easily. And it will continue to work even if you change themes. read more »

Where I get my WordPress News from

Staying informed of what’s going on is crucial to continually learning and honing your skills. With a community as strong as that of WordPress, it’s incredibly easy! Here’s where I… read more »

Gravity Forms 1.7 Released – Improved Confirmations and Notifications

Gravity Forms v1.7 was released yesterday and confirmations and notifications have had a huge facelift, which is really going to expand the power of GF. read more »

DevPress Dashboard – A New Theme for your WordPress Admin Dashboard

DevPress Dashboard reinvents your WordPress dashboard, making it sexier, easier-to-use and cleaner, improving your workflow around the backend of WordPress. read more »

The New WordPress Dashboard Design (MP6) – Try It Now!

The new WordPress dashboard design is available for all to try, and it's simply stunning. I can't wait until it becomes part of the WordPress core. read more »

Template Monster Giveaway – A WordPress Theme of your Choice

Template Monster is a huge online marketplace for WordPress themes and they’ve been kind enough to offer three themes to our giveaway winners. read more »

What can you Embed in a WordPress Post with oEmbed?

With WordPress you can embed media from a variety of sources simply by pasting the URL in your post, including YouTube, Hulu, Vimeo, Instagram and Twitter. read more »

Audit your WordPress Themes for Less Errors and Greater Compatibility

The Theme Check plugin runs a whole series of rigorous tests on any given theme to check it for coding errors, omissions and compatibility problems. read more »

A MintThemes Giveaway – Christmas Comes Early This Year

Mint Themes, the theme developer that focuses on niche markets like churches and bands have kindly offered 3 themes to be snapped up by our readers. read more »

Add a Message Above or Below the Post Editor [WORDPRESS]

Using new hooks available in WordPress 3.5, you can now very simply add messages above or below the editor, allowing you to post messages to writers. read more »

Win 1 of 3 ThemeFuse Themes – a Christmas WordPress Giveaway

Santa is coming early this year, and 3 lucky winners will win a ThemeFuse theme of their choice. Entry is easy, so come join in and don’t miss this opportunity… read more »

Creating a Premium Membership Site with Restrict Content Pro

WordPress has all the tools you need to build a secure premium content site – Restrict Content Pro is my plugin of choice for providing the membership element: it’s simple,… read more »

Using WYSIJA To Manage your Email Communications in WordPress

WYSIJA is an immensely powerful tool for sending out emails from WordPress. You no longer need to use an outside solution like MailChimp or Aweber. read more »

Registering Custom Post Types in WordPress

Custom Post Types are a very powerful tool that can be used to add immense functionality to WordPress, and this tutorial shows you how to register your own. read more »

Sending Out An Email When a Post is Published

Using wp_mail & an action hook, you can easily send emails to the author when their posts are published. I used it to notify customers when orders shipped. read more »