Create Columns in Your Posts & Pages with Column Shortcodes

I came across a fantastic little plugin recently for WordPress entitled Column Shortcodes. Developed by CodePress, the plugin allows you to easily organise your content into columns on your page. Content can be divided into halves, thirds, quarters, fifths or sixths. You can also use two-thirds, three-quarters, three fifths etc. Once the plugin is installed, … Read more

Warning: W3 Total Cache Has Major Security Issue

My friend Alan today advised me of a very serious security issue with W3 Total Cache. It’s one of the most popular WordPress plugins available with close to 1.4 million downloads, so a lot of people are going to be affected by this. Researched Jason A. Donenfeld warned that: Many WordPress users that had added … Read more

Automatically Create Amazon Affiliate Links with Amazon Affiliate Link Localizer

Amazon has been forgotten about by a lot of affiliates due to its (perceived) low commission rates of 4 to 8.5% and a cookie of only 24 hours. Despite it’s commission rates been lower than many other websites and services, it’s a very lucrative affiliate program. When people go to Amazon, they go to buy. … Read more

The Best Feature of WordPress 3.5

WordPress Media Interface

The stable release of WordPress 3.5 was released yesterday. Known as “Elvin”, it was the second major WordPress release of 2012. I wrote an extensive review of WordPress 3.5 a few weeks ago after thoroughly testing the beta versions and release candidates. It has a lot of great new features. Although I’ve been using the … Read more