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My 45 must have WordPress plugins. Any to add to the list?

by Tris Hussey on January 2, 2010 · 21 comments

in Blogging, Blogging 101, Books, Business blogs, Cool tools, Featured, Internet Life, Multimedia blogs, Personal blogs, Portfolio blogs, Social Media, Using WordPress, Web 2.0, WordPress

Even though it’s been the holiday season, work on Using WordPress hasn’t slowed down only a wee bit. Several of the initial chapters are now in the loving hands of my editors and I’m proceeding full steam ahead. Since crowd sourcing works pretty darn well for getting feedback, commentary, and information, I’m looking for a bit of help with the next chapter in the book: WordPress Plugins.
Us WordPress.org/DIY install users know that there are thousands of WP plugins out there to try. Lots of plugins do the same thing and [...]

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WordPress 2.9 is out and this is solid update to upgrade to now

by Tris Hussey on December 18, 2009 · 7 comments

in Blogging, Cool tools, Create Your Own Blog, Featured, Internet Life, Personal blogs, Photography, Podcasting, Portfolio blogs, Technology, Using WordPress, Web 2.0, WordPress

This afternoon WordPress 2.9 went from Release Candidate to just plain old released and, yeah this is a good one. I’ve been using 2.9 in it’s early beta incarnations for months now and have been quite happy with it. I haven’t noticed a huge improvement in speed or stability, but then again I’m not benchmarking it, I’m just using it. Oh and writing about it, of course.
For my money, there are two great features that make this a great update. The first is the new built-in image editor. No, you [...]

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New Introductory and Advanced WordPress Courses Available from BCIT

by Tris Hussey on November 17, 2009 · 5 comments

in Blogging, Blogging 101, Create Your Own Blog, Internet Life, Social Media, Teaching, Web 2.0, WordPress

By popular demand, I am teaching another round of WordPress courses January 16th and April 10th, 2010. These courses are being offered through BCIT and will be offered as separate morning and afternoon sessions. The morning session will use WordPress.com to build a website/blog. The afternoon session will use WordPress you install yourself to build the same kind of site, but with more customized features.
You can sign up for the WordPress morning course and WordPress afternoon course through the BCIT website.
I know that the courses will be taught in the [...]

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WordPress.com and WordPress can co-exist, but maybe with new names

by Tris Hussey on June 24, 2009 · 2 comments

in Blogging, Web 2.0, WordPress

In the WordPress world many of us, especially those like me who teach people how to use it, are often explaining WordPress.com vs WordPress.org to people. The answer, simply, is WP.com is a hosted service where you can have a WordPress-powered blog/site and WP.org is where you download the WordPress software to install on your own servers.
Seems simple to us, but we’ve also been doing this since before WP.com existed so we can make the distinction easily.
As for features, WP.com doesn’t give you all the features of installing WP yourself, [...]

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