There is a New WordPress Cache in Town

Wordfence Seal

WordPress security plugin developer extraordinaire, Mark Maunder, released the latest & greatest version of Wordfence security Sunday. This version gives powerful security and performance caching to WordPress sites. Caching and security in one plugin? Who would have thunk it. Wordfence is the free popular WordPress security plugin from Feedjit Inc. Downloaded nearly 1.5 million times … Read more

How to Change the Shape of Genesis Menu Tabs

Example Genesis Circle Shaped Menu Tabs

Most WordPress nav menus are shaped as  square or rectangular blocks. Some menus use color gradients to add depth to those blocky shapes. How can we change those menu tabs into diamonds, circles or other shapes? We can use background images to give the illusion of different shapes, or, We can use CSS3 to skew, … Read more

Make a Timestamp Shortcode

Epoch Time Shortcode Plugin for WordPress

This snippet creates a shortcode to display the Unix Epoch time. Most likely reason you might use this plugin is to create DoubleClick cache busting links. I wrote a WordPress plugin for this same purpose. The plugin contains the same code snippet. It is up to you whether you add this snippet to functions.php or … Read more

Alexa Graph and Badge Shortcodes for WordPress

Alexa Internet Screenshot Courtesy of Wikepedia

Alexa is a web analytics company of the Amazon brand. The website statistics published by Alexa are extrapolations from data gathered from browsing habits and other sources. These stats can be used to compare and evaluate websites or – more frequently – to show off a website’s global and local rank. The official widget scripts for … Read more