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With WordPress 3.0 comes the feature of adding custom post types but what are custom post types and what do you need to do to implement them…. First we have to understand what is a Post Type… Anyone who has used WordPress for a while and looked through not only its dashboard interface but also […]

For users of WordPress that manage many domains the features of the WPMU (WordPress Multi-User) package are now part of the base version of WordPress 3.0 and above. This feature will allow you to host both sub.domains and with a plugin host completely different primary domains within the same WordPress install. However in order to […]

WordPress revisions are nothing new and depending on your writing style and management of your site they may be something very useful for you and the members of your site. On the other hand they can be a horror story for many websites including some of the sites that NPSites.com develops. For instance one of […]

I have been using a lot of custom fields in the past six months to bring databases online through WordPress. Now we are finding out that Custom Post Types in WordPress 3.0 may do away with Custom Fields in our Posts. The fact is using Custom Fields can be a drudgery but a very important […]

Way back in the day when the Internet was defiantly a Social experience web surfers depended on Link Archives to provide relevant links to information available on the internet. At that time the use of search engines was limited if your information or contribution was going to be found it had to be in one […]

Google has just released a free security scanning tool for web developers called Skipfish. The tool is compiled by the end user and its C language code should work on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X, and Windows (Cygwin) environments. The idea behind skipfish is pretty basic … it will scan your webserver building an index and […]

In another loss of internet privacy rights it seems that the now failing MySpace.com has decided that your use of their system gives them the right to sell both your private info and your statistical use of the site. In a post by readwriteweb.com including info from infochimps.org that was SlashDotted it was shown that […]

It seems the folks at twitter will be holding their first official conference in San Francisco April 14-15th where you will be invited to talk with a number of their developers and do some “hacking?”…. I am guessing they don’t mean they are holding a Fail Whale Harpoon Contest. Anyway the conference costs $469 which […]

WordPress has a great built in editor and dashboard but sometimes you will be away from your computer for a long period of time and really need to get a post out. Well lucky for us WordPress has a built in mail function that will let you grab email from your email server and then […]

If you are a website developer there are two different types of XML data sources you will come across. The first is a live feed directly to a database which can be found in an example of Amazon.com’s XML feed for affiliates. The second is an XML File that is an export of a database […]