I am happy to announce that we just launched a new look for ManageWP.The new look will be followed by the start of pre-order this Tuesday, December 6th. Sign up now to receive a 30% off your subscription prices during the pre-order period. Related Arti… Continue reading → If you are building a WordPress site where all the action is happening in the back-end, you may not need the front-end at all.
In this case you’d want all visitors coming to the website to go directly to the login/registration form.
Here is a simple way to redirect all front-end requests to the back-end.
1. Edit your theme’s index.php and add these two lines to the top:
header("Location: ".get_admin_url());
exit();
2. Continue reading → Favorites!
Use “Add to Favorite” to select any tweet that speaks nicely about your service.
Then simply link to your favorites as a basic form of testimonials. Here you can check out ManageWP testimonials which is an automatically generated Twitter page containing tweets we fave’d.
Taking the idea step further you can integrate the live tweet feed of favorite tweets on your website. One of the ways of doing is with a simple script like twitter text. Continue reading → As I use more and more startups, I witness many forgetting the importance of user support, to the extent that it hurts.
This post is to promise myself that my startup won’t suck at user support.
Startup stage
It seems by definition that the smaller company is, the better support they will have. This is mostly true thanks to the fact that in this stage you will usually get support directly from the founders. Continue reading → If you use Putty to connect via SSH to your websites often, you might save a lot of time by automating the whole process through few simple steps.You will need PuTTYgen which you can download here
Start it and click generate to generate a random key
Enter a pass-phrase for the private key (I recommend not skipping this step, but entering something simple like a three digit number). Save the file.
Copy the generated public key (that’s the whole content of the box beginning with ssh-rsa …). Continue reading →