So, here it is. The tutorial I wrote a couple of weeks ago on putting Mal’s into WordPress with some functions is now a plugin. This is totally my first plugin – I’ve never written one before. I fully expect to be lambasted with “this sucks!” and…stuff like that.
read more ›I was very (pleasantly!) surprised today when I checked my analytics and saw my visitors shot through the roof yesterday. I had a new referral in my stats: StumbleUpon. Now, I’m not a “new media guru” or a marketing expert – but I do know what StumbleUpon is. I’ve never fully explored it though – at the moment I’m dealing with Twitter – and it’s just a fun socializing experiment right now.
read more ›If you’re a designer, I’m sure you’ve heard clients say this to you when you try to implement a content management system for them – especially one that works like WordPress (and is well-known for being a blogging platform). “It looks too bloggy.” Recently, on Twitter, I asked the community “What makes something ‘too bloggy’?”
read more ›One of the big questions you see…well anywhere, really, in regards to WordPress is the desire to integrate it into an existing website. Usually, this is because a business has seen the benefits of adding a “blog” to the site (although most usually use it for “news releases”) and they want it to match their current design, or they want to be able to manage their content easily without going to the extreme of...
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