A Few Amazing Sites That Can Be Built With WordPress

Design, Development

I always tell people that, in my mind, there's no question that WordPress can take anything you throw at it.  I've been building websites on it for nearly 4 years now professionally and I've found quite a few fun little projects have come my way.  It's always a challenge to make WordPress work in a way that is outside the box.  So, I thought…

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WordPress 3.3’s roadmap has been set… at least, it will be.

WordPress

Here’s the email I received of some of the proposed changes to WordPress – a lot of them look super exciting (goodbye IE7!) and plenty of them are just amazing.  What’s your favorite? User Feature: Media Uploader (azaozz) · Definitely v1: Integrate Plupload into dashboard. (GSoC project) · Probably v2: Improve our image manipulation and gallery management. · Nice to have: Kill all thickbox…

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How to set up multiple “layouts” in a post loop (a la TechCrunch)

WordPress

I’ve seen a lot of hateful comments on TechCrunch regarding their new design.  I’m going to officially go on-record and say that (from a design standpoint) I really like where they’re going with the new style.  But, beyond that, under the surface, there’s a few other things that appear to be going on (I say appear because I don’t have access to the backend…

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How Do You Stay Organized?

Announcements

I will start this by saying that I am the MOST unorganized person I know.  I don’t know what it is, but the idea of organization just drives me up a wall.  I am the “organized chaos” or “piles of files” kind of guy, you know?  It served me well… up until I started taking on more clients.  Now, I’m realizing that organization is…

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Help Mitch Choose a Tablet

Technology

It’s come a time when I need to get a tablet to truly dive into developing for the mobile web.  I want to do a lot more HTML5 and mobile based sites, and list that as a skillset, but with only an iPhone, it’s sort of hard to do.  So, I want to poll the audience. So far my choices are between the Galaxy…

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Google+

Social Media

I’ve been testing out, using, and utilizing Google+ now for 5 days.  I’m proud to say that I was in on Google+ on Day 1,  because it’s like being in the ground floor of a building that’s being built around you.  There’s tons of activity, lots of potential, and builders who are actively listening to the ideas and concerns that their new tenants have. …

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WordPress Needs iOS Enthusiasts

Development

There was a post titled (albeit linkbatingly) “Tumblr is Killing WordPress” on the Smedio blog about a week ago.  The comments have kept coming in one by one, with the majority of commenters showing their support for WordPress.  However, one comment that came up struck me as sort of telling on how the story stands thus far: From Matthew: I agree. But where WordPress…

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Go Update W3 Total Cache, WPTouch, and AddThis RIGHT NOW!

WordPress

If you’ve updated your plugins in the last 24 hours, go straight back into your website and do it again – there’s a chance you may have downloaded some infected plugins that were hacked into the repository. According to WordPress.org, the plugins AddThis, W3 Total Cache, and WPTouch were infected with a backdoor that lets people into your site.  The plugins are fixed now,…

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