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WPML usability review

May 15th, 2009 by Amir

This post is a real treat. Joen Asmussen is a usability testing expert. Normally, he writes reviews for companies such as LEGO. To help out with WPML, he donated a review for our plugin as well. This review goes through all of WPML’s options (current to version 0.98), tears them apart and gives constructive criticism [...]

Styling WPML navigational elements

April 1st, 2009 by Amir

WPML creates top navigation with drop down menus, a breadcrumbs trail and sidebar navigation. In this post, I’ll talk a bit about how to use and style them. We’ll use our own theme (used for WPML.org) as an example. Styling WPML navigation To apply your styling to the navigational elements, you need to override the [...]

WordPress Migration in 5 Minutes

March 3rd, 2009 by admin

I just had the pleasure of migrating this website from one WordPress install to the other. At first, I searched for advice on how to do this, leading me in weird directions (mostly revolving around mysql dumps). It turns out this procedure can be much simpler than anticipated, given you’re doing things in their correct [...]

Website Navigation Design

January 20th, 2009 by Amir

When thinking about setting up a website using WordPress and the CMS an important point to consider is how you want visitors to find their way around the site’s content. When setting up a writing a blog the navigation part is usually quite simple: You have your posts in chronological order on the home/main page [...]

Basic Steps for WordPress as CMS

December 23rd, 2008 by Amir

WordPress is a blogging tool. The default setting of WordPress puts the blog posts on the home page. When you are using WordPress as a CMS you probably do not want your home page to be blog posts. Fortunately it is easy to have some other page act as the home page. Here are the [...]

5 Reasons to Use WordPress as a CMS

December 8th, 2008 by Amir

On this site, the designers and developers site of ICanLocalize, we want to develop a resource library for those who want to use WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS). Using WordPress as a CMS organizes the content as a conventional website rather than as a blogging platform. With the growth of WordPress and the [...]