Category Archives: 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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I think SEO should be simple

I’ve written and taught a lot about SEO over the years. One thing that I’ve always stressed is simplicity. That SEO needn’t be hard to work. I used to use All in One SEO Pack for all my WordPress-SEO needs, … 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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Next big project: WordPress Essentials video tutorials

Just in case you think I’m going to slack off after Teach Yourself Foursquare is done, as soon as that project is finished I’ll be starting my next project: WordPress Essentials. This is a video-based project that will take the … Continue reading

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I’m going to try out VaultPress, but I might not spring for it

A while back, Matt and the Automattic gang (maybe a pose now) let the world know that they were working on a new service to back up WP.org-based blogs—Announcing VaultPress | VaultPress Blog. It was clear from the get go … 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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Can you post using an iPad through Safari? It appears so, as long as you use HTML mode. Which isn’t so bad all things considered. Hmm. So, maybe you can’t do everything, but it’s a lot better than the WP … 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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