50 Days to a Better WordPress Blog–Day 3: Sharing is Caring

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This post is the third of an ongoing series entitled “50 Days to a Better WordPress Blog”.  Over the next 48 days, Mitch will be providing small snippits of code, plugins, and things you can do to make your blog more attractive, attain new readers, and keep old ones coming back time and time again. You can see the entire series here. There’s no…

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50 Days to a Better WordPress Blog-Day 2: Caching

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This post is the second of an ongoing series entitled “50 Days to a Better WordPress Blog”.  Over the next 49 days, Mitch will be providing small snippits of code, plugins, and things you can do to make your blog more attractive, attain new readers, and keep old ones coming back time and time again. You can see the entire series here. I want…

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50 Days to a Better WordPress Blog–Day 1: Font Readability

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This post is the start of an ongoing series entitled “50 Days to a Better WordPress Blog”.  Over the next 50 days, Mitch will be providing small snippits of code, plugins, and things you can do to make your blog more attractive, attain new readers, and keep old ones coming back time and time again. To kick things off in this series, I wanted…

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PodCampNashville: a #pcn11 recap

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[caption id="" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Mitch Canter getting ready to speak (credit Dave Delaney)"][/caption] Yesterday downtown Nashville was invaded by 600+ of the brightest and best geeks in town as the Cadillac Ranch opened its doors for the third annual PodCampNashville.  People turned out in droves to hear speakers talk on creativity, development, design, marketing, public relations, and all other manner of speaking sessions.  …

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Firefox 4 and CSS3

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Some interesting tidbits are arising now that Firefox 4 is out in the wild.  It turns out that Firefox 4 will accept both the standard and –moz specific versions of CSS3.  For example, take the following drop shadow css: .shadow{ box-shadow: 0px 0px 12px #000; -moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 120px #000; } In the current order, the –moz statement will be the rendering statement. However……

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Tales of a *Camp Veteran – Maximizing Your PodCamp Experience (for #pcn11)

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[caption id="attachment_1342" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Photo credit: Wonderdawg777 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wonderdawg777)"][/caption] The Nashville PodCamp (coming up this Saturday) marks my 15th camp experience, both as a speaker and as a participant.  The past three years I’ve held privilege to attend camps all over the country, but the Nashville camps (and the southeast in general) seems to have the best handle on how to have a good time…

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Why the Answer “Google It” Isn’t Cutting It Anymore

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I love helping people out with WordPress.  Sure, I don’t use the official channels like the forums or stack exchange, but I love helping out people on Twitter.  I do lurk on the aforementioned services, though, and unfortunately have noticed that there’s a recurring trend that pops up from time to time that really bothers me. A new community member, or someone looking for…

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Exclude Non-Standard Post Formats from the WordPress Post Count

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I’ve been diving into WordPress’ new post-formats lately, and was able to quickly implement some of the new features into the site.  I’ve really taken hold of two post formats: statuses (like a facebook status or a tweet) and links (to non-studionashvegas news, mostly from the WordPress world).  But, I got to thinking – these statuses are great, but they’re taking away from blog…

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