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Yesterday Matt Jones of Storefront Themes announced via his blog that his Rocket Dashboard plugin is now available for free download! We like free, a lot, so we thought we’d take a few minutes and check out just what Rocket Dashboard has to offer. Rocket Dashboard is a plugin that offers a fresh take on the WordPress dashboard, updating some of the colors as well the icons. It’s pretty simple but it certainly gives the dashboard a fresh new skin. I thought I’d install in on my personal blog just to see how much of a difference it makes.

Guest blogging has long been a way for bloggers to create links back to their own content. Traditionally, this has been a good thing for bloggers looking to make a name for themselves and establish some link credibility for their own site. It was good for SEO, and it was good for the writer. It should also have been good for the blog running post. The tide, however, seems to be turning on guest blogging. Lately, you hear of people speaking about its demise. Is guest blogging really dead?

Show Notes Host Shayne Sanderson is the Founder of Maintainn. He can be found on Twitter at @ShayneSanderson and @Maintainn. How the Shayne got started in WordPress – 2 sentences Before WordPress, Shayne managed a record store. He started dabbling in web development. He started working for a large radio station. The CMS was horrible, and he started searching for something else and found WordPress. He used WordPress personally. He left the radio market and started freelancing. What they are sipping? Dre: GreenFlash IPA Brad: Fireball Shayne: Fireball Pressing topics  Update WP Super Cache and W3TC Immediately – Remote Code […]

I’ve shared more than a few times about my interest in what Ev Williams is doing with Medium.com and I finally got my invite to try it out. Oh yay! I was so excited but I waited nearly a full day so that I could sit down and capture my first-hand experience on video, which I did in the following 8 minute video. What’s fascinating, as you will find, is that I “missed” a few features as I walked through it! Chris, who had gotten in months ago, casually signaled to me that I could do what I supposed I couldn’t do […]