Writing “The WordPress Bible”

July 3, 2009

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
That’s how the process of coming to be the newest author for Wiley Publishing seems to have gone, even though the initial contact was only in late April.
Back then, I received a mysterious email in my inbox asking if I would be interested in writing The [...]

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WordPress and WordPress MU to Merge

May 30, 2009

This is the first year I did not attend WordCamp San Francisco, the annual event that is the largest of the WordCamp gathering. It seems like I’m missing the announcement of some big news.
Matt Mullenweg announced during his State of the Word speech, thaa going forward, WordPress and WordPress MU (Multi-user) would be merged. In [...]

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SixApart Engaging WordPress, and Other Thoughts on WordCamp Mid-Atlantic

May 18, 2009

It was a brilliant day on Saturday at University of Baltimore where Jimmy Gardner and I kicked off the inaugural WordCamp Mid-Atlantic. I have been to half a dozen or more WordCamps since the first one in San Francisco in July of 2006. Without being at all conceited, because it had nothing really to do [...]

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WordCamp Mid-Atlantic Approaches

May 12, 2009

WordCamp Mid-Atlantic is five days away (May 16) and things are beginning to fall into place. This is my first attempt at event organizing and I definitely have learned some tough lessons along the way. It’s also been tremendously helpful and rewarding for me. I’m looking forward to this thing coming in to land though.
Along [...]

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How We Moved Thomas Hawk to WordPress

January 22, 2009

It’s been about a week and I haven’t said a whole lot about one of the most special projects I’ve ever worked on. Thomas Hawk has been one of the people I’ve most looked up to since I began shooting photography. I’ve never met the guy before, but I hope to at some point. I also keep my eyes and ears open to absorb anything and everything he ever says about photography in a hope that I will learn from him. Mentor from a far? Maybe.

A few weeks ago, a comment was made on Friendfeed (I don’t remember how it started) and it became clear to me that Thomas desperately wanted to get off of the Blogger blog platform. I can’t blame him. I’m always looking to help people move to WordPress so I asked him to contact me. As a veteran of “moving people to WordPress”, I was sure I could help him out.

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WordPress 2.7 Hits The Street

December 11, 2008

Public Service Announcement to note that WordPress 2.7 has now been released. In addition to our earlier coverage of things you can expect in this release, others have also written some handy posts about the release as well. Take it all in.

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WordPress Plugin Pack: Real Estate

December 8, 2008

We continue our WordPress plugin pack series with the announcement of the Real Estate Pack. While I am not a real estate professional, I do know that real estate folks need as much help as they can get right now. Fortunately for you folks, you do not need to manage a mortgage to get these plugins. As usual, Akismet is included by default as the recommended anti-spam plugin. Keep in mind commercial licensing (you do have to pay, but it’s not much. Go to Akismet.com for more info) and the All in One SEO pack is necessary for marketing and search engine reasons.

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WordPress Plugin Pack: Photography

December 7, 2008

Every day, I get emails, IMs and other questions asking me “What plugins do I have to have in WordPress?” My answer is always the same – depends on what you do or want to accomplish. There are two plugins that are absolutely required, in my opinion, for any WordPress blog – Akismet to combat blog spam and All in One SEO Pack to handle all the basic search engine marketing stuff that most of us forget (or maybe don’t even know how to do) every day.

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WordPress Consulting Extravaganza: One Day Only

November 28, 2008

Forgive the marketing speak, but I’ve decided to do something that really is a special deal. I get inquiries everyday asking me questions about WordPress from “How to setup a category based structure for my blog?” to “What are the most essential plugins I need for my blog?”

If I could cut and paste answers and spend no time, I would, but really every situation is different. Most times I can’t answer these questions because of limits on my time, but I’ve decided to create a day-event where people could book my time for a bit and get any or all of their WordPress questions, recommendation requests and “how-to’s” answered.

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MobilePress Allows Readers to Read On the Go

November 28, 2008

As a fan of all things mobile, I have been continually frustrated by websites that do not render a mobile friendly version of their sites. Let’s be honest, I’ve been frustrated by me not rendering a mobile friendly version. As a Blackberry user, I’ve been tormented by the inadequacy of the mobile browser that has been supplied on handsets for a long time. Each new iteration of the Blackberry OS improves the browser, but nothing has been breakout.

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10 Things You Need To Know About WordPress 2.7

November 18, 2008

The saga of cheatsheets and reference sheets continues with this outline of the hot new WordPress 2.7 which will be released soon. Like WordPress 2.5, this is a radical release. Like WordPress 2.5, the bulk of the changes affect the WordPress admin. Unlike WordPress 2.5, however, this is not merely an update of the backend but a complete rebuilding.

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