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Organizational Skills II

Yesterday, I posted a lengthy intro in my process of organization. I went a little into how I came to the conclusions I did about the subject, and why the articles/books/etc. I found didn’t seem to help me much. In today’s post, I’m going to tell you what I did with those conclusions. It’s actually pretty simple: I had a lot of stuff I needed to get organized. I wanted a simple system that would...

Organizational Skills.

One of my big failures is my organizational skills. Back when I started my sabbatical (and all during it) it was something mentioned a lot: how I wanted to improve that aspect of my life. For the entire year, I would read every blog post I could find on how to get organized; how to become zen-like in the organizational system, how good it was if I were, ways to manage and/or accomplish it, even...

Hiding information from the WordPress admin

So, while I was working on my Back End Instructions plugin yesterday, I was talking to my husband about the client I had built it for. As a quick notation, it’s a group of women who are of a certain age (no offense to anyone – I’m getting there myself!) and who do not like change. It’s taken me almost three years of pulling teeth to get things to where they are now. They want...

New Plugin: Back End Instructions

Well hello there! I’m all excited. I think I’ve mentioned before (although for the life of me I can’t find reference to it) that I wrote a quick plugin once to provide back end instructions for clients. It was using the Userextra/Usermeta plugins, and I edited/added text right in the plugin area to pull up the right stuff, so it wasn’t easily managed. It worked (and was a “quick fix”) – but I wanted it...