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WordPress for iOS: Much Improved
Reading time: 1 minuteI wrote a post a while back stating that the iOS app for WordPress was… lackluster, at best. That was nearly a year-and-a-half ago, and it’s nice to see that the app has come a long way. I downloaded it to test it recently, and I was happily surprised with what I found: Taking a…
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A Responsive Menu Solution for WordPress
Reading time: 3 minutesEdited 01/14/14 to work with WordPress 3.8 A few months ago I modified a really cool WordPress template and started using it for my own clients. As part of the overhaul, I realized that there was no really good way (included) to turn a WordPress unordered list into a menu that would work on a…
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NCDevCon
Reading time: 1 minuteI know, I know. I haven’t posted in a long time here, but I promise I’m working up some new stuff. It takes time, and that’s something I haven’t had a lot of lately. To tide you over, here’s some fantastic news for anyone who’s in NC: I’ll be speaking at NCDevCon, one of North…
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SocialChorus Interview
Reading time: 1 minuteI thought you guys would love to see the interview that I did for SocialChorus on WordPress – it had some great discussion! http://youtu.be/LNn8yF1TToI #spon: I’m required to disclose a relationship with BlogWorld NYC 2012. This could include BlogWorld NYC 2012 providing me with content, product, access or other forms of payment.
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Add a Login Box to your Sidebar
Reading time: 1 minuteI wrote a post a while back detailing how easy it was to add a Login Box to your template. But, it’s even easier, it turns out, to add one to your sidebar. Sidebar Login is a plugin that will let you throw a quick sidebar login box onto your site. And, it’s AJAX compatable,…
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WordPress 3.4 Goes Green!
Reading time: 2 minutes…not like eco-friendly. I mean, they’re already eco-friendly; a journal that doesn’t use paper? Can’t get any more green than that! No, it’s green like Grant Green, the incredible Jazz musician. Look below for the change list, taken from the official site: For Users The biggest change in 3.4 is the theme customizer which allows…
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Post Ordering Made Easy
Reading time: 1 minuteI love using WordPress’ built in custom post types. I’ve used them for sliders, directories, galleries, and pretty much anything else I can think to use them for. The one gripe I have, however, is that I can’t manually set the order of the posts. Just like typical blog posts, I have to arrange…
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The Case of the Disappearing Widgets
Reading time: 1 minuteI’ve migrated tons of WordPress sites in my tenure as a WordPress developer, but over the years one thing would always bother me: my widgets kept disappearing. I’d dump the SQL database and import it to the new server only to find that every single widget had vanished. So, I looked for a solution. WP-Migrate-DB (despite…
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BlogWorldExpo Interactive Map
Reading time: 1 minuteI’ve recently found Google Map’s “Map Builder”, and realized that with BlogWorld nearing the 2 week warning it would be handy to visualize where I’d be going, staying, travelling to, etc. So, here’s a Google Map to help myself (and anyone who can use it) out. Click here to view the map by itself The…
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Breaking Silence
Reading time: 2 minutesSo, I’ve been really quiet on here for a bit. I know, I know – I keep saying all these things about how I want to blog more and never do. That’s my bad, for sure. So, that said, I wanted to give you guys an update on how things are going. People forget that…
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