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WordPress Multisite Case Study

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October 2, 2013

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From the WordPress Codex: A multisite network is a collection of sites that all share the same WordPress installation. They can also share plugins and themes. The individual sites in the network are virtual sites in the sense that they do not have their own directories on your server, although they do have separate directories for media uploads within the shared installation, and they do have separate tables in the database. About a year ago, I was approached by a client who owns three restaurant franchises in three different cities. The parent company has a website, and the franchisees are […]

Why I Deleted My Facebook Account

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October 1, 2013

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A Little Bit Of History My WordPress blog is the latest incarnation of my personal online identity. I’ve had a website operating continuously for roughly 20 years, but I didn’t start to post regular updates online until “blogs” became a thing. I remember encountering the memepool weblog for the first time in the late 90s, the earliest instance of a site I can think of that had collaboratively posted links in a pure timeline format. I don’t think anyone would claim that Slashdot was a blog, even though it’s always been a collaboratively curated links site. Slashdot always felt like it […]

Easy to Start a Company, Hard to Build a Business

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September 30, 2013

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The other day I received an email about a new site (gplclub.org/club) that was offering over $2500 worth of premium WordPress themes, plugins and WooCommerce extensions. For $25. Then, two nights later, at our San Diego WordPress meetup, someone else stayed late to ask me about sites like these. Are they legal? What’s the hook? How do these work? My answer was pretty simple: It’s easy to start a company and hard to build a business. Easy to Start a Company Starting an online company requires 3 steps. First you have to pick a name. Then you need to get […]

Episode #25: Built With Scotch Tape

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September 26, 2013

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Show Notes Host The guest host of Episode #25 was Aaron Jorbin. What were they sippin’ on?< Aaron made himself an appletini with Macallan 10 year fine oak substituted for both the vodka and the apple schnapps. Brad was sippin’ on a Crown Royal Dre a water. How did the host get into WordPress? Aaron was a late bloomer—got into web development and WordPress because a friend asked him to build a site. He then built a plugin, then another. One thing led to another, and then Aaron worked on his first patch, and had it submitted to the core […]

Cloudup Acquired by Automattic

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September 25, 2013

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Automattic has acquired Cloudup, a file-sharing service whose mission includes the desire to make media sharing “simple and beautiful.” This acquisition means two exciting changes for WordPress users: 1) The not-so-ideal Media Library is going to be vastly improved, and 2) Multiple people will be able to work within a post at the same time. From an editor’s perspective, these are two major changes that should make the publishing experience on WordPress that much more pleasant and efficient. I can’t wait! With Cloudup’s technology soon enabling multiple parties to edit at the same time, WordPress publishing can be taken to the […]

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