Holdfire Hosting » Wordpress http://holdfire.net/blog Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:40:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Wordpress Community Sites http://holdfire.net/blog/wordpress-community-sites.html http://holdfire.net/blog/wordpress-community-sites.html#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:52:35 +0000 Jordan http://holdfire.net/blog/?p=34 The greatest advantage with Wordpress is that you have a vast amount of resources at the tips of your finger tips. You don't have to worry about having limited support, or very little add-ons. The Wordpress community is so vast, that sometimes it's hard to chose what to stick to, or what you should pay attention to the most. Some communities, like wpdesigner.com, have come and gone, while others strive and manage to stand above the rest.

If you are looking for a new Wordpress resource site to add to your rss feed reader then we've got the perfect list for you.

2008-12-10_1415 WPCandy.com - Wordpress themes, Plugins, Tips and Tricks
Created in October 2007 by Michael Castilla, WPCandy has risen to the top of websites providing excellent Wordpress posts related to themes and plugins. The greatest advantage came during V3 of wpcandy which showed exactly what Wordpress was capable of: being your all-in-one-solution to managing a website. Some of my favorite posts from WPCandy include (but is not limited to):

Automating my Wordpress Workflow - If you do a lot of testing with Wordpress themes, your main concern should be efficiency. Instead of wasting your time creating Lorem Ipsum posts, you can easily grab the XML file from WPCandy, and import that into your Wordpress Development. It gives you posts the include unordered and ordered lists, headings ranging from 1-5, as well as posts using the read more functionality. No need to spend an hour or to creating fake content!

The Wordpress Starter Theme Project - This is included within the Automating My Wordpress Workflow entry, however if you are just looking for a blank theme to work with, this is perfect. Rather than editing a previously designed theme, start with a clean and fresh one that's void of any design-specific tags. Start off on a nice, organize, and clean slate.

2008-12-10_1451 WPRecipes.com - Daily Recipes to Cook With Wordpress
Jean-Baptiste started wprecipes when he received plenty of Wordpress questions, but felt that just sharing them with the person who asked them via email wasn't enough. WP Recipes not only features posts answering Wordpress related questions, but also features various tips, and how-tos with Wordpress.

A couple posts that I have helped me immensely with Wordpress:
How Can I Display Comments and Trackbacks Separately - This post gives you the proper code necessary to edit your comments.php file in order to separate the trackbacks and comments. I initially needed this because I wanted to keep the two separate as some of the entries had more trackbacks than comments but caused a gap from comment to comment.

How To Display Your Latest Twitter Entry - I'm not a fan of using flash widgets, or having to include a hosted item from another website. It can not only effect your website's loading time, but what happens when the site goes down or no longer exists? I just needed a quick fix to show one lastest tweet, and this quickly did the job, after I added it into the Wordpress theme file.

Some other sites of interest:

Readers: If you have any Wordpress community websites that you'd like to share (that haven't been mentioned), please leave a comment with links to them! We will then use those links you provide to build a reference list to include to our Holdfire clients that are Wordpress users.

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