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Thursday Conversations: HTML5
Reading time: 1 minute(Yes, I inked and typed the above graphic – a little fun while I learn the ins and outs of inking digital graphics) I realize I forgot to do a Tuesday Conversation this week… so I’m moving it to today. I want to get your input on HTML5. More specifically, do you know what it…
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WordPress: The Ultimate Content Management System (CMS)
Reading time: 2 minutesFor years WordPress has been touted as the number one blogging platform. And without mistake – it is. But as we creep closer to WordPress 3.1 it’s nice to take a step back and see just how far its’ come. From winning the CMS Hall of Fame Award to the multiple thousands of plugins that…
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WordPress 3.0.5 is Released
Reading time: 1 minuteAnother security release – here’s what it fixes: Fix XSS bug: Properly encode title used in Quick/Bulk Edit, and offer additional sanitization to various fields. Affects users of the Author or Contributor role. (r17397, r17406, r17412) Fix XSS bug: Preserve tag escaping in the tags meta box. Affects users of the Author or Contributor role.…
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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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