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What is Your WordPress Experience Level?
The most successful marketers have one thing in common — they know their audience. Unfortunately, I’ve taken my site in so many directions over the years that my audience has consistently changed, rather than consistently grown. So that’s mistake #1…
WordPress Tips 2010
For the past two years I’ve give ten tips on how to better use WordPress so I wanted to continue the tradition. This time, however, I’m taking a bigger picture look at the WordPress horizon. These “tips” are less tangible than adding a snippet of code to a template or installing a new plugin. Still, you’ll surely find them helpful for understanding WordPress more as well as keeping up with the always evolving software.
I’m Thankful For WordPress
There’s a lot of things I’m thankful for: my family, my dog, a freelancer’s freedom, Christ. But as it pertains to my livelihood I’m particularly thankful for WordPress.
Not only was WordPress my kick-start into standards-based web design, but it…
Child Theme Inclusion in the WordPress Directory
Before you get too excited, child themes aren’t yet in the theme directory. That’s what this post is aimed at achieving though.
For those unfamiliar with child themes, just take a look at this explanation of…
WPMU.org is Celebrating
WPMU.org, possibly the biggest influence on the WordPress MU community, is celebrating the fact that they’ve created just about 100 plugins, themes, and videos specifically for WPMU.
I’ve been an on-and-off-again user of their products and services and…
Start of WordCamp Day 2
For those of you at WordCamp Dallas you don’t want to read all about it again, and for those of you not in attendance, you can watch what you want here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cali-live. You’ll also be able to find…
WordPress Tips 2009
I was looking through one of my old posts, Hardcore WordPress Tips, and realized just how outdated it is. It’s just one year old this week and already 5 of the 10 tips I would consider bad…
Better WordPress Search Needed
For a current client we are trying to improve the reliability of WordPress’ search engine. By default, WP sorts results by date. You could argue that this makes sense for a blog because the most relevant results may be the…
