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Organizing a WordCamp is no easy task. On top of a full-time job, side projects, and a social life, it can take hundreds of hours to put such an event together. After a three-year hiatus, organizer Ryan Hoover is helping to bring WordCamp Austin back. It’s a labor of love Hoover has been a co-organizer of the Austin Meetup group and helped out with the Austin and San Antonio WordCamps, but this is his first time organizing a WordCamp. “As we talked about how to bring back WordCamp [Austin], I was the one who had the interest and the flexibility […]

Breadcrumbs are an often overlooked, yet valuable form of website navigation. They help users establish where they are on your site, and can even offer a potential improvement to the way your content appears in search engines. Adding breadcrumbs to your site used to be a long, manual process for each HTML page. Thankfully, WordPress makes adding them in quite simple. In fact, there are several options available to you, depending on how customized you’d like your breadcrumbs to be. Because it’s so simple and quick, there’s no excuse not to get started. In this article, we’ll explain the benefits […]

Even the most experienced developer is faced with the inevitable challenge of adding an unexpected element to a design that’s already been scoped out and started. The pressure adds on when there’s little time remaining until launch, no additional budget, and a maxed out schedule that can’t handle much more work. Here is how you can deal with scope creep. Types & Causes of Scope Creep Technopedia provides one of the simplest definitions of scope creep, saying that it “refers to a project that has seen its original goals expand while it’s in progress.” The term also refers to the […]