Articles

Is there an alternative to Jetpack? Since the plugin by WordPress.com is one of my all-time favorites, this is a hard question to ask for me. I’m such a fan, I even wrote an article about it a while back highlighting how amazing it is. Since Jetpack is not so much one plugin as a collection of 30 powerful features, it can can greatly enhance the capabilities of any WordPress website. Also, everything contained in the plugin stack has been test driven on thousands of WordPress.com sites and is therefore sure to be top-notch quality. On the other hand, very few […]

Last year, when I attended WordCamp Orlando, I didn’t know anyone in the community, and nobody knew me. At that time, I made it a goal to become a speaker the following year. This year at WordCamp Orlando, not only was I a speaker, but I also knew a lot of the people in the community, and a lot of people either knew me or have read my articles. More importantly, while I was just getting started last year at this time, now I can say that I’ve been published all over the place: I’ve written plugins, contributed to core, […]