text: 33 Comments Multisite is a powerful new feature that arrived with the release of WordPress 3.0. It allows website managers to host multiple independent websites with a single installation of WordPress. Although each "website" in a network is independent, there are many ways to share settings, code and content throughout the entire network.
  21 Comments Forums have been around forever, so it should come as no surprise that several plugins for the popular publishing platform WordPress provide this feature, as well as support for integrating other forum software. One project, however, has a special place in the WordPress community, and that is bbPress. This is the software created by WordPress founder, Matt Mullenweg, as a lightweight system for the Wordpress.org support forums. In true open-source fashion, the bbPress project was born (at bbpress.org, of course) as a lightweight standalone alternative for forums.
  49 Comments Security has become a foremost concern on the Web in the past few years. Hackers have always been around, but with the increase in computer literacy and the ease of access to virtually any data, the problem has increased exponentially. It is now rare for a new website to not get comment spam within days of its release, even if it is not promoted at all.
  19 Comments Creating WordPress tutorials is a fantastic way to help build the WordPress community and to increase your Web traffic. That's no secret. Just Google "wordpress tutorial" and you'll see hundreds of results. The complete novice will find scores of well-written tutorials clearly demonstrating the basics of the WordPress dashboard and of activating the default template, in simple jargon-free language.
  59 Comments WordPress list tables are a very common element of the WordPress admin interface but creating one of those tables is not really an intuitive thing to do when you haven't done it before. In this article, we'll see how to generate some native admin tables the right way.
  63 Comments When I took my first steps into the WordPress theme arena, I didn't know much about it. I wandered blindly into the business, not knowing whether I was doing things correctly. Over time, through trial and error and making rookie mistakes, I learned some valuable lessons and gained important insights. To save you from going down the same winding path, I'll share some of the important takeaways that I've learned so far, like how to gain a solid user base, what to include in your themes and, most importantly, what to leave out.
  16 Comments Finding a minimal WordPress theme that delivers a rich media experience can be challenging. You don't want it to be so vanilla that it gets lost in the crowd, but it shouldn't be so different that it causes usability issues or appears thrown together. I can't tell you how many times I've landed on a website that looks like it has just woken up after a long night on the town — it ain't pretty! Bad design could very well mean bad business, and in this economy, good business matters more than ever before.
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  49 Comments Whatever type of website you operate, its success will probably hinge on your interaction with your audience. If executed well, one of the most effective tools can be a simple email. WordPress users are in luck, since WordPress already has easy-to-use and extendable functions to give you a lot of power and flexibility in handling your website's emails.
  29 Comments Using tabs in a user interface can help you better organize content, so it's only natural that WordPress themes that have a lot of options would benefit from tabs on their settings page. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a tabbed settings page, and you'll get to download a WordPress theme that implements the code.