Rodney Payne Marketing Associates

Ordinarily, each WordPress blog in a multisite network has its own separate media library. Network Shared Media is a plugin that allows blogs to share media across the network. After installing the plugin you’ll find a new tab in the Add Media window where you can access media from other blogs. Sharing media on a network is especially useful if you’re using multisite to manage a number of websites that…

When you’re migrating a WordPress site from one server to another, there’s a point where you just need to stop writing posts and making changes in the old location. Perhaps you’ve made your final backup before preparing to move the site. Or maybe you’re waiting for DNS to propagate, which can sometimes take up to 48 hours. This isn’t usually such a problem, but with a multi-author site you’ll need…

WP Admin Error Handler is one of my new favorite plugins, created by Gilbert Pellegrom. It does something very simple but important for improving a user’s experience in the dashboard. Here’s how errors normally appear in the dashboard: When WP Admin Error Handler is installed, it catches all the errors and warnings and displays them neatly in the admin bar so you can read them at your convenience. Much nicer,…

The buttons on the WordPress visual editor are convenient, but perhaps you’d like a few more. You can place the following code into your functions file and add up to sixteen extra buttons. (Appearance > Editor > Theme Functions – functions.php) Of course if you don’t want a particular button, then just delete it from the list. function extra_editor_buttons($ buttons) { $ buttons[] = ‘fontselect’; $ buttons[] = ‘backcolor’; $…

Today we get to talk to Ned Dwyer, the mind behind ThemePivot, a super exciting theme customization service that gives your WordPress site the power of multiple developers working together. It’s a new kind of marketplace which makes it easy for people to make minor changes, or tweaks, to their website. 1. What inspired you to create ThemePivot? It was inspired by a couple of things actually. I run a…