Category Archives: Using WordPress

Want to learn WordPress? Learn with me at BCIT!

Well timed that it is with the soon-to-be-released Using WordPress, I’m teaching a pair of classes on consecutive Monday evenings through BCIT. The first is Monday Sept 13th—BCIT : : MDIA 0101 – WordPress.com for beginners 1—and is suitable for … Continue reading

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WordPress, Thesis, GPL, and premium themes

Almost two years ago I started doing a lot more with WordPress than I had before and I found that buying premium themes would save me time and effort. In short order I bought developers licenses for both Thesis (DIYThemes) … Continue reading

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It isn’t starting a book that’s hard, it’s contining to write it

Book Three is starting to gel, but it’s been a tough few nights of writing to get to this place. See, I don’t find starting a book hard, it’s after I have the first 2 or 3 chapters written that … Continue reading

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WordPress 3 & Parent-Child Themes from WordCamp Vancouver

If you missed WordCamp Vancouver and wanted more than the slides I posted previously, now you can watch Catherine Winters & I talk about WordPress 3.0 just a short while before it came out: As Catherine & I talked about, … Continue reading

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Riddle me this…we can post from an iPad to our WordPress blogs, but there is no blog this function in safari to post something that you’re reading.

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Automattic updated the native WP client for iPhones, etc…and wow you can paste on the iPad now! Cut-and-paste now behaves as expected on the iPad. [#438] [From WordPress for iOS › WordPress Version 2.5 for iOS] Wow. When will the … Continue reading

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Matt Mullenweg as Son of Guttenberg: Hyperbole or Well Deserved

There is no denying that I am both a huge fan of WordPress and of Matt Mullenweg himself. But, Matt as the “Son of Guttenberg”, isn’t that going just a little bit too far? I don’t think so.

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In case you’re wondering (because I would be if I were you), I wrote Using WordPress for WordPress 3.0. Actually, I started writing it when WordPress 2.8 was the current version, then switched to WordPress 2.9 when it was released, … Continue reading

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Catching the news here, if you haven’t heard already, but WordPress 3.0 is finally out! WordPress › Blog » WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious”. WP 3.0 was a huge (epic perhaps) amount of work to merge WP and WPMU together, but as … Continue reading

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Get Ready for WordPress 3: Backup Your Database

Now that WordPress 3.0 RC3 (third release candidate) is out, it can only mean that WordPress 3.0 is just around the corner. The final version could be any day now, so now is the time to start getting ready. Thinking … Continue reading

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Pre-release Chapter of Using WordPress: Chapter 7-All About Themes

Just in time for WordCamp Vancouver have a chapter of Using WordPress for you to download and read. Chapter 7: All About Themes Chapter 7 covers all the basics of WordPress themes and, yes, it does include WordPress 3. I … Continue reading

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