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DradCast Episode 075: It’s a slow burn

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March 5, 2015

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[y=Pwxg7WuSdDI height=400] Show notes: Jeffrey Zinn co-founded Pixel Jar, a custom web development firm specializing in WordPress, with Brandon Dove in 2004. He also co-hosts the monthly WordPress meetup in Orange County, and speaks at neighboring WordCamps. You can find Jeffrey online at PixelJar, and on Twitter @jeffreyzinn! Sippin’ on Brad – Captain Morgan Private Stock Dre – Canada Dry Jeffrey – Whiskey Mule Pressing topics ThemeConf ThemeConf, a new conference for theme designers and developers, will be held on June 18-19th in the UK. Press Publish Price Drop Press Publish Price Drop, a conference for bloggers and developers, has significantly discounted the price of its tickets. […]

7 key metrics to track the success of your website

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March 5, 2015

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In life, it’s often the small details that define success over failure—and it’s exactly the same when running your own website. Now, I know that statistics and website metrics are not the most glamorous subjects, but you should never underestimate their importance. Even tracking the most basic of numbers relating to your website will give you an advantage over someone who doesn’t bother at all. You can use real-world data to confirm what works on your website and what doesn’t, identify room for improvements, and spot any abnormal results (such as those caused by a site outage). That’s why all […]

FCC ruling on net neutrality: the winners, the losers, and what this means

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March 4, 2015

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I recently wrote an article here on Torque discussing my thoughts on net neutrality and the possible outcomes of the recent vote by the FCC. Now that the FCC has voted, let’s turn our attention to the winners and losers from the new rules. Winners In short, the vote was the FCC’s way of saying “no soup for you” to parties interested in throttling Internet traffic and to the proponents of pay-to-play fast lanes on the information superhighway. This is a good thing. I like the idea of the little guy getting a fair shake at accessing and disrupting the market […]

15 WordPress hacks busy bloggers will love

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March 4, 2015

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“I don’t have time.” “I’m too busy.” “I would love to but. . .” If you recognize yourself in the above sentences—Congratulations!—you are running a blog or website and have discovered that, as rewarding as it is, it also requires a lot of work. Who knew that creating something that you are proud of, or pouring your heart and expertise into a project, or sharing amazing content takes more than half an hour out of your day? It’s mind blowing, isn’t it? The bad news is: That’s just how it is. To create something worthwhile, you will have to put in […]

Plugged In: A Review of the Official Twitter Plugin

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March 3, 2015

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While there have already existed a good number of WordPress plugins that can help you incorporate Twitter functionality in your website, none of them were officially supported by Twitter. Few days back, Twitter came up with its own WordPress plugin that intends to help users optimize their websites and blogs for the Twitterati. So what does the official Twitter plugin bring to the table? In this short post, I tried to get a glimpse of just that. Basically, the new Twitter plugin does nothing new, but instead tries to offer a one-stop solution for Twitter integration within WordPress websites. As […]

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