Using WordPress in China for the newcomer can be a daunting prospect. Finding hard facts about how to set up your blog, or whether you can access it in the P.R.C is tough. This isn’t helped by the continual changes…
As a web design agency in Beijing we often are asked about the topic of building a multi-language site for customers. It’s easy to see the benefits of your audience being able to switch languages, but is it always a…
This is a question we are frequently asked here at Eggplant Digital. Let’s start by clarifying what “learn WordPress’” actually means. It’s a bit like asking “Can you speak Chinese?” As we all know there is a huge difference between…
ManageWP Worker is a WordPress plugin that lets bloggers and website managers take control of multiple WordPress sites from a single interface. ManageWP Worker has many cool features including: A website cloning tool that allows users to create new sites…
One of the website developers at Eggplant Digital suggested a few tips on how to make your WordPress install harder: In order of importance: 1. Keep your WordPress install up to date. 2. NEVER leaving the generic username ‘admin’ as…
The official WordPress plugin for Facebook, while having unique features like a floating widget at the bottom of the page that recommends content to users on your website that has been popular on Facebook, has been having some problems as…
Instruction for Setting Up Google Analytics Account Go to the Google Analytics Website – Click Here. If you do not already have a Google account, click “Sign Up Now†(located on the left of the sign-in box) to create your…
Antispam Bee is a great WordPress plugin for protecting your website and blogs from digital spam called Antispam Bee. Antispam Bee detects comment and trackback spam and even includes statistics and notifications about the spam being blocked.  Download it now…
Whenever you have read something really interesting, probably the first thing you want to do is tell all your friends, family and distant relatives what was so interesting about it. Luckily there’s now an easy way of sharing with that information with the people you know using a very useful and handy little tool called “ShareThis”. As a writer of blogs or articles it allows you to add the functionality of letting people share your article without too much fussing around. As a user it allows you to tell your friends about anything interesting you’ve read and to store it in your favorite bookmark website for future reference.
When using WordPress for special character websites such as Chinese, you have to be careful to manually specify the Permalinks. If you use Chinese characters for the title of a page or a post, then the Permalink that is automatically generated by WordPress will be come out in a strange format and won’t work correctly.