In the past, I have strongly recommended the Captcha plugin by BestWebSoft, as one of my few recommended plugins, but recently I became aware of Google Captcha (reCAPTCHA), also by BestWebSoft, and find it even easier to use. This is the plugin I will use on every site I create to help reduce spam and…
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Pin Images with Image Alt Tag Instead of Post Description
I recently had a customer who wanted site visitors to be able to pin her photos with the alt description rather than the standard blog post description. I searched through quite a few plugins before I found the jQuery Pin It Button For Images plugin. There are lots of other options with this plugin as…
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Plugin Review: Instagram Feed – Love it!
I was recently handed this design to code with a section for an Instagram feed. Although the design was beautiful, I really wasn’t looking forward to adding all that code to pull in the image feed and then stylizing the incoming pictures and making sure they were responsive. It would be a lot of work….
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Plugin Review: Full Screen Background Images Pro vs WP Supersized
6/3/15 Update: I wrote this review a while ago, but realized today that I had underestimated WP Supersized. I love the plugin anyway, and the only reason I didn’t recommend it in the review below was because I thought I couldn’t set up different sliders for different pages. Today I learned I was wrong. With…
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Best WordPress Slider Plugin: Smart Slider 2 – Tutorial
Please note Smart Slider 3 is now available. Finding a good slider plugin for WordPress is more difficult than it should be. Here are my requirements: My slider requirements Must be responsive Should be able to edit text separately from image Should not use “posts” Should allow HMTL Should be able to link to whatever…
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Spring Cleaning for Your WordPress Website
It’s finally that time of year – the snow is starting to melt and we are beginning to see signs of Spring. I know you are used to making sure your home is in order this time of year – but when’s the last time you did a little spring cleaning on your website? See…
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Plugin Review: Gravity Forms Directory
I recently developed a member site where members wanted the option to list their names and contact info without having all names shown by default, like you would see in a BuddyPress site. Turns out Gravity Forms Directory was perfect for that. Of course, you will need the paid Gravity Forms plugin as well, but…
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