Custom Fields in WordPress

20+ Tutorials and Resources for Working with Custom Fields in WordPress | Vandelay Design Blog.

In the Lynda.com video tutorial on Self-Hosting a WordPress Site, the section on Comparing Content Creation Options mentions the Custom Field option as being one main difference in WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress.org content creation interfaces. She then goes on to state she has never used a custom field in 4 years, causing me to question how useful this tutorial will be for me. I believe that custom fields offer a powerful option for those of us looking to use WordPress as a CMS rather than just a blogging platform alone, as reading any one of these tutorials on working with custom fields should demonstrate.

Digging into WordPress

Digging into WordPress is a great new WordPress site by Chris Coyier (from CSS-Tricks) and Jeff Starr (from Perishable Press), two of my favorite web design bloggers and writers. They have teamed up to write a book on WordPress, which will be online here. This is the blog that goes with it.

So far so awesome!

Copyright Violation

I just found a blog that copied part of a page out of my Backyard Birding site and posted it as their own without asking or giving credit! I would have been happy to have gotten credit for it and have them link to my site, but to just copy it, including the photos (one of which retained the copyright and my name in the caption – I guess they missed that one, which is how I found the site) is not okay. I could find no way to post a comment or contact the owner of the blog to let them know – they haven’t updated since June, so maybe someone else caught them first. I have my page copyrighted under a Creative Commons Attribution License, which means it’s totally okay to copy it, as long as you give me credit. No credit was given for the post (only the one photograph, as far as I could tell).

Any ideas about what to do about this?