Joost de Valk

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Multilingual and Multi Domain Sites in WordPress

One of the things we’re doing more and more of recently is building multilingual, multi domain corporate sites in WordPress. Doing that used to be a fair amount of work, but we’ve been able to make it a lot simpler lately. We start the process with a simple WordPress MU install, to which we then [...]

Adding Sites to Sociable

While Sociable comes with a pretty large set of sites, there are always people that want to add their own. While this is pretty easy to do, you’d have to update the plugin every time it’s updated, which is quite often, so that’s not really a workable solution. Today, I’ve fixed that. I’ve just submitted [...]

Analytics360° – Google Analytics in your Dashboard

I’ve been doing some changes to how the WordPress newsletter gets sent out recently, and one of those changes was because I have switched to using MailChimp. I was getting sick of Aweber after some issues, and when the folks from MailChimp decided to advertise on my blog I contacted them. So now, MailChimp is [...]

Plugin Support

Cool plugin find: Changelogger

Sometimes the cool plugins are the small little things. With the advent of the new changelog addition to the WordPress readme.txt standard, it became possible to parse these changelogs and show the changes straight into your WP Plugins section. This is exactly what the ChangeLogger plugin does. It looks like this: Pretty nifty huh? I [...]

WordPress Consulting Services

Lots of people have WordPress blogs and websites, but few really know how to get the full benefits of that platform. With proper SEO strategies, you’ll be getting ten times more out of your WordPress site than all your competition – which means that’s great for your rankings, your traffic, your readership and your sales. [...]

Remove Smilies, once and for all

One of the most annoying features ever in WordPress is the “feature” to convert smilies into images of smileys, MSN style. Where lots of stuff like this is dismissed these days as “plugin territory”, this annoying feature has been in WP since 0.71… Anyway, sometimes you’ll want to disable this feature from within your theme, [...]