Many people have seen the potential of the Internet for making a living online — some of whom have even make huge sums of money. However, knowing where to start is one of the biggest road blocks faced by aspiring online entrepreneurs. There are so many options, not to mention conflicting advice, that many would-be webmasters simply never take action. Now, because of its theme and plugin infrastructure, WordPress is the CMS of choice for most people — we’ve even written a guide to making money with WordPress. It’s also highly user friendly, requires minimal coding ability, and has an abundance […]
Deadline approaching for Community Hub poll
There’s only one day left to vote for the features you’d like to see included in the WordPress Community Hub. The poll will close at 00:00 UTC January 29, 2015. In early December, Jenny Wong gave the green light for the Community Hub project — a project that will make it easier to find WordPress user groups all over the world. The announcement also pointed to this as an opportunity to make the hub into so much more: “. . .The community hub can be the WordCamp.org of local user groups/ meet ups. This would mean that user groups who want a localized […]
Mastering WordPress: 48 resources to go from newbie to pro
Mastery is a fascinating topic. Anyone taking pride in what they do are constantly striving to improve. To improve their skill set just a little more — to get a little better, faster, or more precise. Yet, mastery of any discipline comes down to one thing: practice. Whether you play the violin or are just trying to get really good at FlappyBird, you will need to put in the time it takes to get there. Mastering WordPress is no different. Increasing your skill set to an exceptional level is hard work. However, there are good reasons to do so: WordPress has […]
Why you need to start using a staging environment
Have you ever made a change to a client’s WordPress site and it crashed? Maybe you were updating a plugin or customizing code in the theme, and the site just goes down. Panic sets in as you try desperately to bring the site back online. You realize visitors are seeing that the site is down, and are probably going to call your client soon. Not long after that, you’ll get a call from a very irritated client. As professional developers, we obviously want to avoid situations like this. So how can we? Well, instead of making code changes or updates to a live […]
DradCast Episode 071: GoDraddy
[y=bQ43m1L1pi0 height=400] Show notes: Lisa Sabin-Wilson is the author of WordPress For Dummies, which is a compilation of her knowledge from working with WordPress since 2003. Lisa is also a co-owner of WebDevStudios, as well as a mainstay public speaker on: WordPress, blogging, design, and social media. You can find Lisa on Twitter @LisaSabinWilson! Sippin’ on Brad – 12-year-old Scotch Dre – 12-year-old Scotch Lisa – 12- year-old Scotch Pressing topics Drew Jaynes will be the lead on WordPress 4.2 10up engineer, Drew Jaynes, is going to lead development on WordPress 4.2. Depression in IT A look at helping out the community to preemptively spot signs of depression before they […]

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