I stumbled upon an interesting and useful analytics tool for our WordPress installation today from Microsoft called Visual Studio Application Insights. It took all of two minutes to configure for… Read More
Many WordPress developers complain about the size and bulk of Jetpack, a popular WordPress plugin that packs in an enormous amount of features. Despite the excessive amount of functions packed… Read More
Embedding Tweets and other Twitter widgets in WordPress is super useful and popular. The automatic oEmbed functionality in WordPress makes it as easy as grabbing a Tweet URL and dropping… Read More
The WordPress editor allow authors to easily choose when a hyperlink opens the link in a new window or tab. It does this via a simple check box. You’ll see… Read More
If you run a WordPress site, or any other website for that matter, it can be hugely beneficial to optimize the images that are uploaded to your media library. Many… Read More
We use a number of WordPress plugins on GeekWire. One of the most useful ones we’ve found is Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), which enables easy input and output of custom… Read More
If you are using a commercial theme for your WordPress site, chances are you have customized your site using numerous action hooks or filter hooks. Theme hooks make it easy to… Read More
While tracking WordPress pageviews in Google Analytics is pretty easy to accomplish, another interesting metric for many websites is to track author statistics. Namely, how many pageviews is each of… Read More
As a news site, many companies will download our logo for inclusion on their own webpages. The natural way that this happens is that they will right-click on the logo… Read More
When we developed our new GeekWire website in September, one of the critical steps in the process was to run each page template through a few diagnostic tools to make… Read More
When you author a post in WordPress, it will automatically assign the post to your default category. This is determined by navigating to Settings > Writing and looking for Default… Read More
Many WordPress sites take advantage of post excerpts to display snippets of posts on the home page or archive pages of their site, often followed by a “Read More” or… Read More
We recently came across a need to exclude a set of custom posts from our WordPress search results page, based on a value set in the custom fields of those… Read More
I first encountered the WordPress Transients API a couple of years back. I was reviewing the database tables on one of my blogs, and found that my wp_options table was… Read More
GeekWire has been cranking out loads of technology news and analysis since it launched back in 2011. While we love writing about other companies’ technology and innovation, we actually haven’t… Read More