Highslide really makes your pictures and galleries look a lot better in Wordpress. I’ve been using Lightbox, Shadowbox, and Thickbox for quite some time, but I’ve always wanted the ability for a thumbstrip like you see in Blogspot and Flickr. Highslide is an amazing image display that offers huge amounts of customization. Basically, you create…
How to Trim/Edit/Split a MKV With a Visual Editor
UPDATE 2/17/12: Solveig Multimedia has released version 3.0 of their software. Read the review I did here. There are a lot of good MVK muxing/demuxing softwares out there. Unfortunately, there isn’t a ton that let you edit/trim MKV’s visually and accurately without rencoding (which creates quality loss) like VideoReDo or VirtualDub do for MPEG’s or…
How to +1 a Google Page from Your Own Website
Google Plus pages for business are brand new as of Nov. 7, 2011. Google does offer a tool to create a button for your website or blog posts (a simple example is below). Problem Unfortunately, I could not find anywhere how to use the Google Plus +1 button and get it to actually interact with…
SOLVED – Woothemes and Yoast SEO Produce Double Title Separators
NOTE: Many updates to Woothemes themes and the Wordpress SEO plugin make it easy to resolve this problem. Go to the Wordpress SEO plugin settings > Titles & Meta > then check the “Force Title Rewrites option. Woothemes makes some amazing themes. It also comes with some basic SEO settings baked in. If you’re looking…
WordPress/Buddypress Review, Rating, and Feedback System
Update 2/12/12: I have the plugin being developed. It is being based off the source code from BP Group Reviews. It should extend the same functionality on Buddypress Profiles and Wordpress Posts/Pages. I’ll update as soon as its ready. I’m hoping it will be done this week, but the developer is slow… Update 2/24/12: After…
How to Design a High Converting SEO Website
[SEOmoz] Cyrus Shepard created an amazing infographic that is worth sharing about the key elements to creating and designing a blog or website that will keep visitors on the page longer, encourage them to share, and rank well with search engines. (see also this article on tweeting and Google+ effects on SERP’s) (Click the image…
Automotive Call to Action Images
I am creating a collection of different sizes of call-to-action buttons for dealer automotive websites. Trade Appraisal 265×76 http://spoonjab.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/blackbook_trade.jpg 200×50 http://spoonjab.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/trade_appraisal_200×50.jpg Credit Estimator 265×76 http://spoonjab.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/credit_estimator.jpg 326×50 http://spoonjab.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/credit_estimator_326×50.jpg Credit/Pre-Approval 144×51 http://spoonjab.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/easy_credit_button_144×51.jpg
Twenty Eleven Theme Fixes – Sidebar and Header Image Size
The Wordpress 3.2 update rolled out in the last week made some really nice improvements including the new Twenty Eleven theme. Many of the improvements over Twenty Ten make it a viable choice for a main theme: mobile browser theme detection support for custom menus cleaner graphics and interface Two of my biggest complaints are…
Must Have WordPress Plugins
This is a rolling list that is always being updated. Make suggestions on plugins in the comments and I’ll add them to the list. SEO SEO Friendly Images – adds ALT tags to all images automatically if you don’t (helps get more Google image searches) SEO Searchterms Tagging 2 – adds recent search engine phrases…
*SOLVED* Android Wireless Tether Broken in CM7
UPDATE 6/21/11: Comments have alerted me to the try experimental version 2.0.8. It does indeed fix the problem. Here’s the link and the QR code: Wireless Tether for Root Users 2.0.8-pre1 *** EXPERIMENTAL *** UPDATE 12/09/11: CyanogenMod 7.1.0 doesn’t play nicely with Wireless Tether because the baked in tethering services autostart when activating on Wireless…