Tidy up that Media Library

We were working with a customer that had a ginormous media library. We found the “Media Cleaner” plugin and it worked like a charm. We removed over a gig of images and over 5800 entries in their media library. Be warned, it took FOREVER to run. But it seemed to do a perfect job. We … Read more

How does your WordPress server stack up?

Just found an extremely handy tool. We are assisting a new client and their WordPress install just seemed sluggish. We weren’t sure if we were imagining things or just being impatient. As we like to say: “There’s a plugin for that”, so after searching we found a plugin simply and aptly titled “Benchmark” by Mark … Read more

Use visual editor for widgets!

One of our few disappointments with WordPress is that the Text Widget is pure HTML. That makes it really hard to turn over any sidebar text for the end users to manage. Here’s a plugin to make that worry go away: Black Studio TinyMCE Widget. This plugin simply creates a widget called “Black Studio TinyMCE” … Read more

Handy Plugin – Proper Network Activation

Ever had a plugin that worked wonderfully in “single site” WordPress, but when switching to multi-user mode (WPMU), it doesn’t work on any other site than the initial site? Here’s why. And even better “there’s a plugin for that!” This handy plugin will make some of those stubborn plugins work beautifully under WPMU. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/proper-network-activation/ From … Read more

Plugins We Install on Every WordPress Site

(In No Particular Order) Google XML Sitemaps – Arne Brachhold Contact Form 7 – Takayuki Miyoshi Contact Form 7 to Database Extension – Michael Simpson Cloudflare – Ian Pye (CloudFlare Team) All in One SEO Pack – Michael Torbert Broken Link Checker – Janis Elsts Redirection – John Godley MailChimp List Subscribe Form – MailChimp … Read more