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Recreate ‘11
Reading time: 1 minuteIf you’re going to be at #recreate11 this year (held tomorrow – Thursday at Rolling Hills, please don’t hesitate to stop and say hello. I know I’m not a worship pastor or creative arts director, but immersing yourself with creative people is a good way to recharge creative batteries and network with like minded people. …
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Custom Category Styles
Reading time: 3 minutesI had a few people ask me yesterday how I was able to separate the styles on my blog into normal posts and the “asides” post – news from WordPress, etc. It’s not hard, so I thought I would share it with you. First off, you need to make sure that your posts have the…
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WordPress.com Announces Premium Themes
Reading time: 1 minuteNews from the WordPress.com blog – premium themes are becoming available to WordPress.com subscribers. I am proud to introduce the very first two premium themes on WordPress.com: Headlines and Shelf. Headlines is a sophisticated magazine theme from WooThemes with a Featured Post slideshow, multiple menus, and 15 beautiful color schemes. It’s available now for a…
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Favorite Plugins–Yours, Mine, and Everyone’s
Reading time: 1 minuteOK – so I’ve tallied up the results from Tuesday and came up with some really interesting results. So, I’m going to do something a little fun. Here are your favorite plugins as determined by the comments, my favorite plugins, and the top 5 plugins from the WordPress repository; let’s see how they match up…
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Should Businesses Use WordPress?
Reading time: 3 minutesIt’s definitely possible to make a living doing custom WordPress plugin and web development, but I don’t think it’s possible to make a living just building plugins and asking for donations. Do you feel that users are ungrateful for your work?Not really ungrateful, no, but I definitely think that some are blissfully ignorant. I imagine…
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The State of WordPress Plugin Development
Reading time: 4 minutesSeeing all the fun plugins you guys posted to the site today has reminded me of a topic that I’ve both seen published on other sites as of late and been pondering myself lately – the authors. I’ve co-created a plugin, and it’s currently residing well in the plugin repository, but it hasn’t been all…
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Tuesday Conversations: Your Favorite Plugins
Reading time: 1 minuteMy old site was all about me writing stuff. Don’t get me wrong, I love writing, but I know that I’m not the only guy out there doing this – I love learning from other people about things that I’d never known about otherwise. Unfortunately, StumbleUpon is devoid of good WordPress articles (lots of theme…
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Should Businesses Use WordPress?
Reading time: 3 minutesShort answer: Yes. The longer one: WordPress has been around for over 7 years now. From its humble beginnings as the blogging software that took down MovableType, it’s morphed and changed and evolved itself into the number one content management system (or CMS) on the web today. WordPress powers over 10% of all websites on…
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Welcome to studionashvegas v4.0
Reading time: 2 minutesIt’s been long overdue for a design refresh, and this weekend I pulled up my bootstraps and got to work. There are quite a few things going on (both inside and out) that have brought my template into the new year (and will keep it on top for a few years to come!) 1) HTML…
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Yes, Another WordPress Update. So?
Reading time: 1 minuteWordPress released their press release about WordPress 3.0.4. As soon as it did, I saw the WordPress hashtag on twitter light up – people complaining about having yet another security update. I hate to get on a soapbox about this, but seriously – you’re going to complain about people working to make your site as…
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