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How to Set Up a WordPress Blog in 10 Minutes or Less

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Nick Schäferhoff

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September 2, 2014

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As a serious user of WordPress, one of the things you will do most often is run through its installation process. Whether it’s on your own site, a local development environment, or the live site of a client, the 5-minute WordPress install will be part of your daily life—like eating and breathing. Usually setting up a website with WordPress consists of the following steps: Download and unpack the latest version of WordPress Create a MySQL database and user with all necessary privileges Upload WordPress files via FTP Run the installation Done You can even skip part of the installation by […]

Episode 057: The Bourn Creative Identity

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Marie Dodson

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August 28, 2014

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Show Notes Host Jennifer Bourn is the Creative Director and Digital Strategist for Bourn Creative, a full-service design company, and Genesis recommended developer in Sacramento, California. Jennifer is an award-winning designer with a penchant for writing, marketing, chocolate, Star Wars, and Legos (yes, Legos not logos). With more than 300 WordPress sites under her belt, Jennifer now shares her expertise and lessons learned as a speaker, blogger, and co-organizer of the Sacramento Meetup Group. She is excited for the upcoming launch of Bourn Creative’s newest venture, EntrepreneurThemes, providing online tools and simple WordPress website solutions for small business. You can […]

Best Practices for WordPress Theme Development

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Nick Schäferhoff

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August 25, 2014

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WordPress is slightly addictive. I always thought of it as a gateway drug into the world of web development. Maybe you started off just needing a simple website. You figured out how to install WordPress on your server, chose a theme that suited most of your needs, set up some widgets, maybe installed some plugins, and that was it for the beginning. Then came the day you really wanted something on your page but couldn’t find a plugin for it, and it wasn’t part of the theme options either. Or maybe someone told you about Firebug and showed you how to […]

The Ethics of Ad Platforms

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George Lawton

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August 19, 2014

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A variety of advertising platforms such as Google AdWords and AdSense play a key role in bringing fresh traffic to WordPress sites as well as in monetizing many types of blogs. As these platforms grow in complexity so do various ways of gaming them in ways that adversely affect consumers, publishers, and advertisers. There are lots of ways of gaming the system, which, though legal, still raises ethical issues. AdWords and advertising networks play different roles in helping to drive traffic and monetize blogs. Google AdWords allows a Website owner to post ads that are listed alongside relevant search results, and represents the […]

Dre Armeda Joins WebDevStudios as Vice President of Operations

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Marie Dodson

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August 14, 2014

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This morning, WebDevStudios announced Dre Armeda—co-host of DradCast and co-founder of the popular website security company, Sucuri—as their new Vice President of Operations. This is exciting news, and we’re eager to see what innovation and progress comes from it! I reached out to Dre directly to understand his motives for joining the WebDevStudios team, and how his new role will impact his positioning in the WordPress Space. When I asked Dre why he decided to make the move, he said: I get really excited about building and growing ideas into something real. WebDevStudios is very real and in a great place. . .It […]

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