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"Unless you've been hiding under a (presumably delightfully comfortable) rock for the past few years, you will have noticed the extraordinary rise in the popularity of podcasting (one billion podcast subscriptions was passed way back in 2013). And being the enterprising type, you're ready to wade in and grab the opportunity that podcasting presents with both hands. As a WordPress site owner, you'll be delighted to hear that podcasting and WordPress go hand in hand. To save you the unnecessary hassle and effort that can be involved with integrating podcasts with your WordPress site, we've rounded up seven of the top podcasting plugins out there for you to consider below. By the end of the piece, you're sure to have found a solution to suit your needs. Before we crack on to the list though, let's cover some background on podcasting itself. A Brief Overview of Podcasting Podcasting's history goes back further than blogging itself. Although its roots lie in the 1980s indie radio boom, the modern format become popular in 2004 through platforms such as Odeo. During that time, the iPod was the dominant force in online media consumption. Developers and radio enthusiasts were on the lookout for a way to easily add their programs to the device and Apple's 2005 integration of podcasts in iTunes set the ball rolling in earnest. Since then, podcasts have been created by every conceivable media outlet and organization on earth and opened the door for many individual voices. Some of the most popular podcasts have been entertainment-based. The Ricky Gervais Show, for example, started life as an incredibly popular podcast with roots in traditional radio. Due to its success, the show grew into an HBO series with multiple spinoff shows starring various cast members. Other popular podcasts explore a diverse range of topics with standout examples including This American Life, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Nerdist, and Radiolab. The more technically inclined amongs

Every so often you come across a site that makes you wonder why you never found it before, and Andy Gongea's GraphicRating site is one of those for me. This collection of favorite WordPress Tutorials and Resources is extremely helpful, as is his WordPress Cheat Sheet. I often gauge the quality of sites by who they link to, who they cite as authorities, and who they admire. Andy's heros are my heros: Zeldman, Molly, Meyer, Shea, Moll, Croft, Snook are some he specifically names in his Ten Things a Web Designer Should Consider article. In this Tutorials and Resources article, he links to quality tutorials from other designers I know and respect, like Chris Coyier's CSS-Tricks and Ian Stewart's ThemeShaper.com among many others. In other words, if I hadn't already found a lot of these great sites, this one post would have set me up really nicely! I look forward, therefore, to exploring all the great tutorials and resources I haven't yet discovered on my own that he lists.

At Html Experts, we offer PSD to WordPress conversion, HTML to WordPress, PSD to WordPress Integration, WordPress Implementation & Set-up, WordPress Customization, WordPress Plugin Installation.

Two of my favorite web designers with super helpful blogs, Chris Coyier of CSS Tricks and Jeff Starr of Perishable Press, have just released their new collaboration! The book, "Digging Into WordPress," is now available as a PDF download, and if you buy the PDF book now, you will be eligible for a "sweet discount" on the hard copy of the book when it comes out, plus receive updates free. They've done a great job on this book, which covers setting up WordPress, anatomy of a WordPress theme, theme design and development, extending functionality including using WordPress as a CMS, working with RSS feeds, SEO, dealing with comments, and keeping your site "healthy." I already followed both of these designers before they began their collaboration, and have found countless useful tutorials, code snippets, design ideas, and much more on both of their sites - I've relied on Perishable Press as a source for great unobtrusive javascript code, and on CSS-Tricks for all kinds of other useful tools for making valid, functional, and beautiful sites. This book is bound to be a valuable reference to anyone who works with WordPress.

Having a local WordPress test environment is essential for developing themes, plugins, and updating sites. The last thing you want to do is update a live site or install a plugin that completely breaks the site. In this tutorial I'm going to take you through the steps that will give you a local WordPress environment that will allow you to safely and efficiently develop for WordPress.

You may remember a previous article I wrote here on JungleJar.com called Using Custom Fields To Post Your Images, but if not, I'm going to reintroduce a few of the code snippets and methods I wrote about in the tutorial about how to save and display image data from custom fields within Wordpress. In this article I'm also going to cover a few of the small yet robust code block methods I myself tend to practice quite a bit that I didn't previously touch on. So, if you're looking for a solid tutorial on how to use Wordpress Custom Fields to display blog post thumbnails in an easy and flexible manner, then this article is for you.

In the present time, WordPress have the lion's share of the millions of successfully running web portals in comparison to the dozens of other platforms Joomla, Drupal and more. WordPress is considered as one of the most popular choice of Content Management System in the web development industry because of its simplicity, user-friendliness, easy installation and great functionality.

Have you ever wanted to automatically assign and display an avatar or image based on the user who submitted the post or wrote the page? In this Wordpress tutorial, I'll show you how.

We are all used to seeing an image below blog posts titles, be it on blog homepages or on individual posts. However, until recently, adding these images was not as straightforward. Before the ability to register post thumbnails in themes was introduced in WordPress 2.9, WordPress theme developers were forced to use the post metadata in order to display an image associated with a post. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to add this functionality to your themes and we will play around with some of the function options.

Practical Uses for Post-Thumbnail function in WordPress 2.9

Few days back, the widely used WordPress has hit the web development industry with its much-awaited 3.4 version. The recently arrived WordPress 3.4 version named as "Green" in honor of guitarist Grant Green. The new 3.4 version of WordPress comes with lots of improvements that adding more to the usefulness of the WP. A live theme-customizer, custom backgrounds and headers, better support for internationalization and revamped XML-RPC are some major additions to the new version.

"Hybrid is more than just a WordPress theme. It's about pushing the limits with what WordPress can do. It's a framework. Something you can use to build anything from the smallest family blog to a powerful site that handles thousands of visitors a day." BENEFITS - THE SHORT LIST: * Developed with child themes in mind, so you'll never lose your customizations. * SEO optimized. No need for plugins to handle this anymore. * Theme options that are about content/information. * Templates for everything. * 13 page templates. * Actively developed for WP 2.7 but backward compatible down to 2.5. * 15+ plugins supported within the theme. * Attachment handling like you've never experienced. * Advanced breadcrumbs beyond any other theme. * Ability to run just about any type of site. * And over 20 tutorials to start.

If you if you regularly test or develop WordPress themes and plugins, it is a big advantage to set up and use a local sever environment. Learn how to use Instant WordPress. 

"Developing locally on your own computer or on-site server can save time and provide an easier route for testing and development, and with XAMPP you can do so easily. In this tutorial I will guide you through the complete setup of XAMPP and then installation of WordPress so you can build themes and plugins locally."

You may be familiar with our set of articles here on JungleJar explaining how to widgetize your Wordpress templates. Well, we've added this little bit and updated the other files.

If you use WordPress and wonder how do you learn WordPress development as a complete beginner? That's the question we're going to be answering in today's post.

In this article I'll give you a few tips that have helped me over a bit of time to save a bit of time. The fact that running a website and writing for it as well can require quite a bit of time and dedication, we all need new ways to help us publish and promote our articles quicker. While this tutorial was written with a focus on the Wordpress CMS, I think any webmaster will be able to take something away with them from it.

WordPress 3.0 multisites lets you easily publish multiple sites, on multiple domains, within one installation.  This is a time-saving option for those of us who need to manage multiple separate domains running WordPress, but it does take a little knowledge and file access to set up, and at the moment isn't for anyone who doesn't consider themselves technically 

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