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WP Remote Rolled Out Even More Changes This Week

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November 22, 2013

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WP Remote provides a great resource for those who have multiple WordPress sites to maintain. Created in 2010, this evolving web app allows users to monitor and update all of their WordPress sites in one place, saving time and effort for those who manage sites for clients. Since announcing “The New WP Remote” on October 4—which marked the launch of their new premium features, a redesign, and the public release of their powerful API—the folks behind the scenes at WP Remote have been working hard to deliver even more improvements to the interface, all rolled out in the past week. […]

Less is More: 3 WordPress Plugins for SEO

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November 21, 2013

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WordPress plugins are a fast and simple way to customize your site’s performance or modify its look. It is common (and tempting) for new webmasters to load up their site with dozens of plugins, but this practice may actually be doing more harm than good. I’m of the belief that less is more. My team at DigitalTraffic.com has been doing eCommerce SEO for over a decade. When we optimize a client’s website, there are really only 3 plugins that we always use. This is not to say that certain desired functionalities won’t require other plugins, but for the vast majority of our […]

Episode #28: Bacon Bad

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November 21, 2013

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Show Notes Host  The guest host of Episode #28 was Robert Neu, CEO and Marketing Engineer of FAT Media. Robert is also one of the hosts of the WPBacon podcast. What were they sippin’ on? Robert Neu was drinking a Fat Tyre Brad a Grand Cru Dre a Corona. How did the Robert get into WordPress? Robert started out in freelance, building sites. He tried Drupal, Joomla, Open Cart, and eventually realized WordPress made him the least angry. While Robert started as a developer, he later transitioned to focusing on SEO and internet marketing. He continues with this focus through […]

Evaluating Plugin Weight and Performance

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November 20, 2013

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I was recently asked how I judge the performance and relative “weight” of plugins when I am testing them for Tidy Repo. I wish I had a one stop solution for determining this, but it’s a little more complex than that—so I thought I might detail my process here. General Testing Setup For my local dev environment I use Vagrant, and 10up’s wonderful Varying Vagrant Vagrants box. This works for most plugins, but some need to be on a live install for one reason or another, so I have a site set up on my server as well. These are […]

Things to Consider Before Changing Your Company’s Name

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November 18, 2013

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Big News This Week This past week there was news of 3 different name changes by companies you may know. The first announcement came from ZippyKid, who decided to change their name to Pressable. The second announcement came from MaxCDN about their various brands (HDDN, cloudcache, and NetDNA). They’ve now consolidated brands to simply MaxCDN and MaxCDN Enterprise. The third announcement came from VeloMedia as they announced the acquisition of Crowd Favorite. And even though they were acquiring the company, the announcement included the fact that they were going to move forward under the Crowd Favorite name instead of VeloMedia. […]

7 Ways to a Better “Busy”

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November 15, 2013

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What Does “Busy” Mean? For most WordPress freelancers, business is good. And for some, it’s almost too good. When I was at PressNomics recently, I spoke to lots of WordPress freelancers who all said the same thing: I’m very busy, business is great! Just too much to work on…you know the deal. But at every conference or WordCamp, I also overhear a lot of complaints about clients changing the brief mid-project, dragging their feet on content deadlines, or generally frustrating the creative process. So I have to wonder, is it good to be “busy”—if that means more stress and less creative […]

Managing a Larger WordPress Community

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November 14, 2013

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When I first got into WordPress in 2009, I never thought that years later I’d be helping to manage an active 2,200+ online Advanced WordPress (AWP) Community, or a 30+ Local AWP Monthly San Diego Meetup. Over the years, community building within the WordPress space has been a hard road full of personalities and individual interests. But it’s something that I enjoy doing and have a lot of passion for. When I was recently approached by Torque to become a regular “Community” contributor, I realized that I do have a lot to say about this amazing community, and a lot that I […]

My Experience of Editorially

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November 13, 2013

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Editorially is a new platform for document creation, editing, and collaboration. By itself, it’s a compelling writing alternative in a landscape that’s become excitingly crowded lately. Editorially offers lots of export choices: HTML, Rich Text, Plain Text, .docx, LaTeX, and ebook. But for those of us in the WordPress community, it’s probably Editorially’s one-click post to WordPress and Markdown editing that makes us start comparing it to other new platforms like Ghost and to the WordPress editor itself. What’s Markdown? So, what is Markdown? We all know what Markup is. HyperText Markup Language is what Tim Berners-Lee created when he invented the […]

Responsive Sliders with the Soliloquy Plugin

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November 12, 2013

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When used properly, sliders can be helpful. I’m hard pressed to find a site these days that doesn’t have one. But coding up a slider module can be very difficult. And now that responsive design is all but mandatory, it’s even more so. That’s why Thomas Griffin built Soliloquy. Responsive and Easy What really jump out for me are the layers the plugin is built on. On the surface, it’s really easy to get started with your first slider. Thomas even brags that it can be done in 60 seconds. (In my experience, it’s more like a minute and a half…) […]

Building an eCommerce Store? Don’t Forget Aspirational Intent

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November 11, 2013

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Come Shop with Me Imagine you’re there with me, stepping into the motorcycle store to take a look at all the incredible bikes. Imagine you can not only watch me peruse, but can hear the thoughts in my head. That’s the wish of every single online eCommerce store creator, right? To see what I do and to understand my decision-making. But we’ll get back to that in a second. Picking My First Motorcycle As I walk through the motorcycle store, you start to notice something. I’m only looking at, and considering, the big bikes. You know, the ones that look […]

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