What are the Essential WordPress Plugins You Can’t Live Without?
In my WordPress session at Barcamp Portland this past weekend, one of my favorite questions started the discussion: What are the most essential, must-have WordPress Plugins? My answer? None. Okay, not...
View ArticleWhat You Most Need to Know About WordPress
At the recent WordCamp Portland 2012, I was asked by several attendees to cover the basics of WordPress and we came up with What You Most Need to Know About WordPress. Here are the “notes” from that...
View ArticleEvaluating What Makes a Shopping Cart Work Best
Before you check out your next WordPress shopping cart or ecommerce WordPress Plugin, you need to read this. In April 2011, Smashing Magazine published “Fundamental Guidelines Of E-Commerce Checkout...
View ArticleBlogrolls Gone in WordPress. How to Save Your Links.
For the past few months, rumors were flying that WordPress was going to remove the Links/Blogroll feature of WordPress. As of August 2012, it is now gone from many WordPress.com. MacManx, Happiness...
View ArticleHow Many is Too Many WordPress Plugins?
In “How Many WordPress Plugins Should You Install on Your Site?” WPBeginner asks a question I bring up in my workshops, training programs, and college courses: How many WordPress Plugins are too many....
View ArticleWordPress Anniversary: WordPress and Evil
As I look back on the ten years of WordPress, there is a dark side to blogging. While many blamed WordPress for the evil, like guns, WordPress doesn’t cause evil, people cause evil. In fact, WordPress,...
View ArticleBlog Exercises: Own Your Site and Protect Yourself
I hear it every day. A webmaster, developer, or designer does the site owner wrong and the site owner is victimized, helpless, and frustrated with what to do next. I’ve gotten calls in the middle of...
View ArticleBlog Exercises: Patterns in the Stats
As we proceed through this year of blogging tips and exercises, we’ll talk more about statistics and web analytics to help you check in with yourself that you are on the right track. Today’s blog...
View ArticleCode Standards Project to Take WordPress Into the Future
WP Tavern reported recently that WordPress Developers are organizing a community initiative to standardize common post types, taxonomies and meta data. Led by Justin Tadlock, popular WordPress...
View ArticleWhat Does WordPress, iThemes, Goodwill, Home Depot, and Target Have in...
We received a new credit card in the mail today to replace our old one AGAIN. An “unsuccessful attempt” to access our secure security data happened and this is a precaution the bank is taking to...
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