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Updating Client Sites to WordPress 3.6

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August 14, 2013

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I am a freelance website designer/developer, and a WordPress developer and end user. While I have not written any plugins or designed any themes from the ground up, I have modified and tweaked some to my liking. I feel fairly comfortable and confident editing the code in the WordPress functions.php, template files, and plugin files to make them behave the way I’d like. Most of the sites I work on are for small businesses and local organizations. Not only do I create the initial design and build the website, I also do the routine maintenance and updating. The websites are […]

My Two Cents on WordPress 3.6

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August 13, 2013

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know that WordPress 3.6 came out on the 1st of August. This version brings a few new functions while simultaneously refining the way you blog. Personally, I think the new revision system is a massive improvement over the old system. You can now see how many revisions there are for a post or page and scroll through the timeline quickly and get a visual difference between two adjacent versions. Or you can select “compare any two revisions” to get the specific comparison you need. It also shows you who made the changes […]

The Myth of the Dedicated IP Address for SEO

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August 12, 2013

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Scott Offord, Director of Internet Marketing at Orion Group, cuts through the confusion once and for all. The Myth There has been a lot of misunderstanding around the topic of dedicated IP addresses for SEO. Misperception about whether a dedicated IP address will provide a boost to your SEO or not still lingers from the false notion that Google penalized virtual hosted sites. It was a misunderstanding that should have been cleared up back in 2003, but it still clouds public perception, even though it shouldn’t. I want to cut through the confusion: A dedicated IP will not boost your […]

50 Shades of Online Joke Theft

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August 11, 2013

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With all this talk about forking this past week I must have come up with about a thousand jokes (most involving spooning leading to forking). Unfortunately, discussing source code and software packages aren’t the typical topics of convo at the comedy clubs, so most of my friends thought I was just plain cuckoo… and, well, I probably am. And for all of you WordPress folks, I won’t torture you… I’ve already stuck a fork in my forking jokes. But I will offer you a Woo-free article to enjoy today. It is the weekend for Pete’s sake. Let’s laugh a little! […]

Finely Tuned Consultant: Travis Smith

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August 10, 2013

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By trade, training, and education, I am a learning and development professional, which most people have no idea what that means, so instead I say this: I am a WordPress enthusiast. That is truly how I see myself. I’m super familiar with what not to do with WordPress, and feel lucky that I’ve converted a hobby into a full time venture! Meet Travis Smith, a WordPress developer who made his way over to WordPress from Blogger long, long ago. Doesn’t it seem like there are so many people who started out on other CMSs, had talent, and once they discovered […]

Episode 021: Doing it at Midnight

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August 8, 2013

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Show Notes Host Brian Krogsgard is a WordPress developer in Birmingham, Alabama. Krogsgard the owner of Poststat.us a curated WordPress news platform. How the Matt got started in WordPress Brian found out about WordPress in 2008. In 2010, he came back to WordPress when he realized he enjoyed making websites and began writing for WP Candy. He spent a year learning and writing while making sites for friends and families. What they are sipping? Brad – Chub Soda. Cherry Vodka and Club soda Dre – Water Brian – Dale’s Pale Ale Pressing Topics WordPress 3.6 Oscar released. Oscar includes a […]

WordPress Advanced Anti-Spam Techniques

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August 7, 2013

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Have you ever found yourself dealing with a spam attack on your site? If you have, you’d know. It almost always starts out as a trickle… Maybe it’s a couple comments about how enlightening your entry on the summer corn you made on the grill a few weeks ago was. Only all the comment author links are to pharmaceutical sites or places where you can buy knock-off high heels. And can an entry about corn really be enlightening? *sigh* This is spam, isn’t it? Well, let’s go ahead and flag those in Akismet so it can catch others like it. […]

Think CMSs, Not Websites

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August 7, 2013

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I meet many small and mid-sized business owners. It’s amazing to me that, even in mid-2013, so many don’t operate websites. Statistics vary, but by some counts an astonishing three in four companies don’t maintain a web presence. And then there are I call 90s sites in The New Small. These are the websites that look like that they have not been updated in fifteen years. These websites—and I use that term loosely—are often bereft of content and anything remotely resembling contemporary design. In this article, I’ll make the argument that business owners need to stop thinking about websites. Instead, […]

The State of WordPress Education

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August 6, 2013

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In his annual State of the Word address, Matt Mullenweg gave a number of interesting statistics relating to WordPress over the last year. Some were good, but others, not so good. On the “good” side of the ledger was the increase, of 2.2%, of total sites now using WordPress, a number that brings usage up to 18.9%. He also mentioned that overall awareness of the WordPress brand in the USA is at 29.3%—very impressive. But the stat that really stood out to me was on the opposite side of the spectrum, the “not good” side of the ledger: Of the […]

Tricks and Hacks for Non-Developers

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August 5, 2013

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Ask any web editor what bugs them about WordPress and you’ll get an immediate (and usually pretty passionate) response. Anyone who spends most of their day in WordPress has a list of quirks and kinks that have – at one point or another – driven them to the verge of insanity. Things like videos not centering, disappearing embed codes, and funky formatting are among the most common culprits. As a Web Editor and Producer, let me share with you some of the typical frustrations that people come to me with (or that I have battled with myself) and offer some […]

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