How To Do Basic ‘Things’ in WordPress

WordPress recently launched WordPress TV a collection of “How To” videos dealing with many aspects of WordPress.  The following are some of the videos that our clients will find useful when maintaining their site/blog:

Writing and Publishing a Post
Saving and returning to draft posts & pages
Adding and deleting categories
Adding categories and tags to your posts
Adding users [...]

Wordcamp Denver

Today I had the privilege of attending Wordcamp Denver today at the Denver Art Museum, a conference put on by Automatic “…created for enthusiasts, users, developers, designers, and fans of WordPress in the Denver/Boulder area.”  It would be a mild understatement to say that the amount of knowledge dissipated today was colossal.  I can not wait [...]

Wordpress 2.7

Wordpress 2.7 is set to release soon.  We’ve installed the beta version on some test blogs and we’re blown away by the new interface and features.  Here are some screengrabs to check out.

Wordpress 2.5

Originally slated for a release date of March 10, 2008, Wordpress 2.5 made its debut yesterday. Most notable in the long list of improvements is a major upgrade to the admin area. Writing posts, pages, and especially managing assets (images, videos, mp3 files, etc.) received a total re-vamp and a slick new user interface [...]

In Praise of Wordpress

The gang here at Invisible Window has developed multiple sites and written many articles about using Wordpress as a content management system (CMS). We believe it excels at this task and, more importantly, puts the site owner in charge of their own content. And who, after all, knows more about their company than anyone [...]

Google Maps Wordpress Plugin

For over a year now our Invisible Window team has built some very cool web sites using Wordpress as the content management system. We’re pleased to announce our first publicly released Wordpress plugin, Google Mapper. Installing this plugin allows a site admin to add locations, stores, dealers, etc. to the database and for [...]

10 Mandatory Wordpress Plugins

Akismet – This one pretty much goes without saying, Wordpress comes bundled with this plugin allowing anyone to use it with no more effort than pressing the activate button within the plugin tab – provided you have a Wordpress account (which is free – here). Akismet will drastically cut down on the volume [...]

It’s Alive!

Well we’re by no means finished with the site, it still has a long way to go, but we feel like we have finally gotten it to the point that it’s presentable. So without further ado, welcome to the new (and hopefully improved) Invisible Window web site!

Widgets? How to make your theme Widget Friendly.

What are Widgets anyway? I asked myself this question quite a few times while searching through various Wordpress blogs and continually seeing them referenced. It turns out that in a nutshell Widgets are little pieces of code that modify your default Wordpress sidebar. Bloggers have been modifying their sidebars since discovering Wordpress, [...]

Wordpress 102

This is the second in a series of lessons about how to use Wordpress as a full-featured Content Management System. The first post, Wordpress 101, of this two-part lesson is located here. Wordpress 102 will continue on where that one left off and we will address:

How to utilize unique pages, with a unique [...]