In doing a lot of development for clients involving the highly-customizable system WordPress, we have created many custom plugins for clients. For those of you that may not know, plugins add extended functionality to WordPress allowing you to do almost anything with your blog or Web site.

There are plugins that allow you to display a custom event calendar on your Web site, manage your podcasts, create an administration area to manage memberships, manage payments for subscribing members and so much more.

We are proud to announce that we have added a page of WordPress Plugins to our Web site that will list our custom Plugins that are available for free! Please feel free to use them on your own Web sites and blogs.

Get the FREE Riddle Brothers WordPress Plugins:

Riddle Brothers WordPress Plugins

If you need any assistance installing a plugin, or would like us to customize it for you let us know!

Every week we get many quote requests from clients looking to have a WordPress blog designed and developed. WordPress is one of our most recommended systems for managing a blog or Web site and we are always happy to help our our clients by adding additional functionality to their WordPress installation.

One of the many features that you can customize within WordPress is the comments area of your blog posts. From omitting posted Web links to automatically displaying Twitter avatars, there is much you can do to “hack” your blog’s comments section.

Smashing Magazine has a great post on 10 enhancements / ideas you can apply to your comments field.

Read the full article:

10 Handy WordPress Comments Hacks

If you are interested in requesting our services to help you tweak or develop your WordPress blog or Web site, please contact us today.

The blog Mens with Pens has a great post on the possibility of online videos turning away your audience or intended customer. Their reasoning is that if watching a video is the only option to receive content (especially in regards to a tutorial of some sort), then those who are visual learners are going to be at a disadvantage.

I agree with them….not only in regards to tutorial content but all online content. While there is nothing wrong with video as a communication format, when it is used to teach or present an update of some point, I become disengaged. I want the ability to be able to skim through content, skip what I am not interested in (or already know) and get to the good stuff. This is much harder to do with a video player than it is a readable, searchable and “take at your own pace” blog post.

The solution: Present an alternative format in addition to the video (text, PDF or a downloadable transcript of some sort).

Read the full article here:

Do Your Videos Shut Out a Third of Your Audience?