Riyaz Sayyad last week released a great social media plugin for WordPress entitled Get Social. Instead of being positioned at the end of a post like other social media plugins, the Get Social box floats at the left hand side of your page. As you scroll down the page the box remains at the top left hand side. It’s very similar to...

FlexiThemes is a premium WordPress store which gives customers access to all of their themes from only $19.95. They have kindly donated 3 annual subscription memberships (which cost $49.95) to WP Mods readers. In total FlexiThemes have 6 premium WordPress themes and one free theme available to download. Initiate – Premium Vega...

WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg has always made sure that his personal blog has a fresh and trendsetting design. He recently launched a new design for his blog so I thought it would be fun to look back at how his designs have changed over the last 4 years. 2006 In 2006 Matts blog was located at photomatt.net rather than ma.tt. The design...

The default registration page for WordPress is pretty straight forward. To sign up a user just has to enter a username and their email address. A randomly generated password is then emailed to them The majority of people don’t really take advantage of the WordPress member system so are more than happy with the basic registration...

A few weeks ago I spoke about the importance of having a test area for WordPress so that you can test plugins and develop themes without worrying about anything messing up on your live site. I’ve always had a test blog installed somewhere online so that I can play around with things so that I can access it anywhere in the world...

Custom Post Types is a new feature in WordPress which greatly extends the versatility of the script. It was originally introduced in WP 2.9 but it’s functionality has been greatly extended in WP 3.0. The word ‘Post’ is a bit misleading about the feature though. As Justin Tadlock suggests, the word ‘Content’...