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5 Simple Steps To Improve Your WordPress Site’s SEO

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April 2, 2013

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SEO is all about making it as easy as possible to for search engine crawlers and the algorithms they feed to figure out what your site is all about and which search terms it should rank for in search engine results pages. WordPress is already fairly good from an SEO perspective out of the box. It’ll mostly take care of issues like creating a decent link and navigation structure without much user intervention, but there are ways to give your WordPress blog or site a helping hand.

Getting Involved with Web Standards

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April 2, 2013

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As a WordPress user, it is fantastic to see so many people contribute something back. It is so easy to find help and support, we can take it for granted. But let us not forget the larger web community. After all, WordPress was built on web standards. It may have even been the reason some of us even started using CSS and HTML the right way. And now more then ever, with responsive design and a plethora of devices and browsers, standards need our help. So let’s use our community spirit to help a build a better web.

Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 4.1.2013

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April 1, 2013

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Happy April Fools everyone! Anyone have any good theme or plugin related jokes? My favorite is the Thugins post from Page.ly. Maybe we should start sharing them in our roundup posts as well 🙂 All kidding aside, I have some new and updated themes and plugins to share with you on today’s roundup. Check them out after the break!

What Makes a Good Desktop Background?

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April 1, 2013

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I am not a professional graphic designer, but I love design.  I love logos, color schemes, the balance of positive and negative space, I love all that stuff. I have always dabbled in making logos and graphics for shirts and such, but I was never the kind of guy to dive into illustrator and really devote my time and energy to it. I just didn’t have the time because I was concentrating so much more on photography and video. Luckily all of those things share the same compositional rules in many aspects. Desktop backgrounds can be a photograph or a […]

Give Back – It's Our Responsibility, Opportunity

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April 1, 2013

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Today has been light for a number of reasons – the first being that we’re getting back into the swing of things from a major holiday and very few of us actually did any work (and writing). The second is because, starting at 3:30am this morning, I found myself driving up to Greenville, SC from Atlanta and would spend most of my day there. I was spending some time mentoring and coaching the second cohort at The Iron Yard, a technology incubator and accelerator. I had the distinct pleasure of coaching the first cohort as well and many of those […]

And… April Fools 2013 Begins…

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April 1, 2013

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In the words of our technical editor, https://twitter.com/tommcfarlin/status/318674262581968896 It’s true – April Fools’ day was once a pretty cool thing with clever pranks and bogus PR releases that tricked thousands. Now it’s turned into just another marketing tactic to get a few more eyeballs on a company, product, or service. It’s overplayed, overdone, and the “genius” of it all is all but completely gone. I’m sure I will, at some point, walk through a recap or roundup of the “Best April Fool’s Jokes of 2013!!!!!!!!!!11111111111” somewhere on Mashable or another similar social media site but at this point I think […]

Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 3.30.2013

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March 30, 2013

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I’ve got quite a few new and updated plugins to share on this Saturday’s roundup. There is definitely a mix bag today. Everything from videos to eCommerce to maps to twitter to bbPress. There’s tons more to check out for sure! I hope you all have a Happy Easter tomorrow and we will see you back on Monday for our regularly scheduled daily roundup. Here’s the full list of plugins after the break.

Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 03.29.2013

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March 29, 2013

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It’s Friday! Let the freakin’ weekend begin! I’m definitely excited to relax a bit after a long, long week. I am all traveled out and it was my last day at my previous employer today. Some new things happening in a few weeks. More details to come. There’s a few new plugins that I can share with you on today’s roundup. I just wanted to say thanks for the shout out too on Twitter from the WooCommerce DYMO Print crew. It’s great to get to know others in the WordPress community like this. You guys rock! Here’s the new plugins, hot off […]

Fight the [/Madness] – A Shortcode Revolution!

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March 29, 2013

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As a general rule, I hate WordPress shortcodes. I understand their value to the end-user and have even enjoyed developing them on some recent projects; however, they’ve become a sort of mutated flu vaccine. Created for good, they have now become a disgusting virus mimicking basic HTML and infiltrating areas they do not belong – themes. I cringe every time I see a theme that boasts “100’s of shortcodes” or, God forbid, uses [h1][/h1] as a replacement for traditional HTML headings. But how do we make everyone happy? How do we satisfy the developers that need their themes to be competitive in marketplaces? How do […]

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