WordPress 3.0 has plenty of new features, and all of them are worth mentioning and diving deeper into. Over the next few days I'll be diving into the finer features of the newest incarnation of the WordPress platform. Everything from Custom Post Types and Taxonomies to navigational menus and all of the custom functions you can sink your teeth into. Today, we start with…
I gave two presentations: my staple presentation (and my strong point in the WordPress world) titled "How to Use WordPress for Dang Near Anything" - which basically equates to "Using WordPress as a CMS", and an introduction to WordPress session. I love doing the WordPress 101 sessions because it gives me a chance to really share my passion with others on WordPress, and it's…
I'm sitting back at my desk after a looooong series of flights back from Fayetteville, Arkansas today coming back from their inaugural WordCamp. Chris Spencer did a fantastic job organizing an army of volunteers and sponsors, and the event was fantastic. I'm hoping I get to go back next year, because there's an immense pool of talent brimming from Fayetteville.WordCamps always get me fired…
I'm sitting in my hotel room after getting a hot shower under led shower head (I love how water change its' color as I shower) after the day’s conference. I sat outside talking to Brian Collinger for a while (he's one of Automattic's Code Wranglers - and the dude knows his stuff). And that's what these events are all about - connecting (and reconnecting)…
UPDATE: I managed to write this into a plugin – Facebook Like Button Since Facebook announced a few days ago that you would be able to use its OpenGraph technology to “like” pretty much anything on the Internet, I took it upon myself to test out a few solutions for adding a “Like” button on the site. It turned out to be fairly easy,…
OK, so it’s not the most original title in the world, but it gets the point across :) I’ve been working with the fantastic Jeff Brown and the Way-FM crew to create a site for their Nashville presence that will allow them super-quick, easy content management and a place they can post local stories and events. WordPress, of course, is the logical choice, but…
I had signed up to test some ads on another blog with the Yahoo Publisher network. I wasn’t too impressed, and took the ads down quickly, but kept the account, just in case. Well, today I got this email: Dear Publisher, Yahoo! continuously evaluates and prioritizes our products and services, in alignment with business goals and our continued commitment to deliver the best consumer…
So, as promised a few weeks ago on Twitter, I decided to give a few services a try, and weed out the ones that I felt like weren’t serving my purpose well. After almost a month of testing, I’ve finally narrowed it down to the two top contenders: Foursquare and Gowalla. IF all things continue as they are, however, Foursquare is likely to be…
I’ve been doing a lot of looking into using WordPress as a multi-author website/blog lately. A few of my clients have requested the need to handle (elegantly) multiple authors, so (being fresh on my mind) I feel inclined to share. One of the coolest plugin combinations I’ve come across recently is using Author Spotlight and Authors Widget in combination with a custom author template…
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