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Next Time on Hoarders: Bloggers Without Content Strategy!
You’ve seen it before: people who amass tomato sauce because it’s on sale. They bring home jars and jars and jars of the stuff, even though they don’t necessarily have room in the pantry–or family members who even like a … Continue reading Next Time on Hoarders: Bloggers Without Content Strategy!
WordPress Security – Facts & Fiction
More than one million WordPress sites were cracked last year. Was your site or your client’s site among them? Effective WordPress security requires much more than a few plugins. This candid discussion will review the foundational levels of “The Multiple … Continue reading WordPress Security – Facts & Fiction
What Mobility Brings to the Class Blog
Since 2007, faculty and students at Abilene Christian University have focused on the impact of mobile devices on learning, in and out of the classroom. One early limitation was the reluctance of learning management systems to see mobile computing as … Continue reading What Mobility Brings to the Class Blog
Theming with Sidebars
The ability to register new sidebars was introduced in WordPress version 2.2. You can’t find a design or theme without them anymore, so as a themer, this is one of the things you must know how to do. Sidebars are … Continue reading Theming with Sidebars
Synchronizing Creativity with Content Management
Boston University began tinkering with WordPress in 2007. Today our highly customized web-publishing platform serves 1,000+ websites, ranging from blogs to behemoths, and 60+ themes, ranging from bespoke to basic. BU’s culture of free thought extends to the creative team … Continue reading Synchronizing Creativity with Content Management
Getting Started with WordPress as a CMS
If there were any lingering doubts about WordPress’s viability as a serious, full featured content management system, they were put to bed last year with the release of WordPress 3.0, and thoroughly put to sleep with 3.1 and 3.2. If … Continue reading Getting Started with WordPress as a CMS
You’re doing it wrong and it’s all my fault: dissecting the client relationship
Anyone who makes a living with WordPress has dealt with a bad client relationship. We as as designers / developers understand that clients don’t always understand exactly what it is that we do, but have any of us taken the … Continue reading You’re doing it wrong and it’s all my fault: dissecting the client relationship
Theming & Mobile: Optimizing your WordPress site for Various Devices
Your site is about your content. How do we optimize for all the different devices out there but still keep our brand? Do we even optimize at all? What are different ways we can look at how our content is … Continue reading Theming & Mobile: Optimizing your WordPress site for Various Devices
Simplifying Your Life With WordPress Multisite
The multisite feature of WordPress has been part of WordPress core since version 3.0. It allows site administrators to run several different websites off of a single codebase, and manage them through one dashboard. In practical terms, this means that … Continue reading Simplifying Your Life With WordPress Multisite
How to Market Your Blog (okay, Mom’s reading, now what?)
You’re proud of your blog. It’s a labor of love or maybe the best, most insightful content to offer, but it’s not got the readership or results that you want just yet. Join WhatCounts Director of Strategy, Christopher Penn, as … Continue reading How to Market Your Blog (okay, Mom’s reading, now what?)
