Information about selected WordPress plugins that can help improve your site or give it added functionality.
HTML5 video on Android is still a hot mess, and can be frustrating if you’re trying to make your videos playable on as many devices as possible. I’ve struggled with this in the past, and have settled on the following method to solve my problem.
I used the Universal Video plugin and modified it to add a link to the video for mobile devices. It may not be the most elegant of solutions, but as far as I can tell it’s been working great so far.[...]
I’ve been testing out the WordPress Firewall 2 plugin for a little while now, and so far I think it’s been a good addition to my site.
This plugin provides a layer of security to your site by investigating web requests to your blog and blocking the most obvious attacks. The types of attacks it blocks are as follows:
You can read more on these types of attacks on the plugin author’s page.[...]
I finally got around to updating the Universal Video plugin for WordPress yesterday. Not a lot changed in the updated version (0.7), I mostly just updated the Flowplayer files in it. The changes in the current version of UV include: Flowplayer 3.2.7 is used Some unnecessary code was stripped out The plugin can be downloaded [...]
There are many different WordPress plugins available for backing up your site. I have never really liked any of them and have preferred to do my own backups manually. That is until I came across the WordPress Backup to Dropbox. Let me give you a little background on what I think about WordPress backups. A [...]
With the increased popularity of online video combined with the massive adoption of mobile internet devices, html5 video is quickly becoming the desired standard in online video. Even though html5 video could (and should) replace flash video in most cases, its adoption among bloggers is slowed in part simply because most bloggers find embedding html5 [...]
There are well over 10,000 plugins available for use on WordPress sites, some more useful than others. Some plugins that perform very simple tasks may be useful for beginners, but I would still go so far as to say that the following 5 types of WordPress plugins should be avoided. Google Analytics There are almost [...]
If you are a user of the popular “Subscribe to Comments” plugin by Mark Jaquith, you may have some issues with the output in your administration panel. To be more specific, the subscribers and posts number may be reversed and you may get a “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page” message [...]