#ListoftheWeek: Premium WordPress Services

This list is a no-brainer for me – I have used darn near every product out on the market for WordPress.

Many are good, some are terrible, but there is a short list of products and services that I’d rank … Read More

WordCamp SF 2012 LiveBlog

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WordPress Essentials [an infographic]

Many of us have built our web presences on the WordPress CMS. It works, it’s flexible, and it’s open-source (gotta love that).

But what about it’s ability to scale? There are undoubtedly thousands of free themes and plugins. There are … Read More

PressNomics 2012 : The Economics of WordPress Conference

PressNomics is 3 day event in Chandler, Arizona bringing together the companies powering the commercial WordPress economy to discuss business topics of interest and foster collaboration among peers.

This is the inaugurial year for this conference, which … Read More

Top 7 best SEO Plugins for your WordPress Blog

SEO Plugins have the potential to dominate entire marketplace or a niche. WordPress is one of the known platforms used for popular system of online content management and control. Adding SEO plugins to a word press can help user’s raise … Read More

The Power of WordPress [infographic]

The lines between what is a CMS (content management system) and what is a blog have significantly blurred.

The most popular platform to-date is unquestionably WordPress. If you have doubts – check the numbers…look at the source code of numerous … Read More

11 Ways to Create a Mobile Friendly WordPress Site

11 Ways to Create a Mobile Friendly WordPress Site (via http://simplerdesigns.com)

Mobile technology is going big. Every other user is now viewing your website from their iPhone or other smart phones. It is essential that you create a mobile friendly version of your WordPress site. Majority of top sites and blogs have already made their sites mobile friendly, but there are tons of…

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Online Security: Help Prevent Your Site From Being Hacked

Online Security: Help Prevent Your Site From Being Hacked (via SCMG Enterprises, LLC.)

Probably the biggest fear of any potential hosting client is having their site (s) hacked. We don’t really have to say how much Website Security is important – nobody would like to wake up one morning and see his home page offering cheap Viagra or Cialis, for example. There are a lot of ways to…

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WordPress Plugin: Storify

I’m a big curator of news. It doesn’t matter what the topic is; be it political, business, technology, sports, or whatever – taking advantage of the multiple streams of data across the Social InterWeb and organizing that information is what … Read More

Seasons Greetings From Copyblogger Media [sing along]

In this business of digital publishing you run into a lot of people. The majority of folks are cool and willing to teach and provide assistance whenever and wherever they can.

But then there’s a small few that go 2 … Read More

5 Types of Sites You Can Build With WordPress

A CMS is a content management system and this is basically a fancy term for a type of software that allows one to create a website or blog. One of the better known and most popular CMS software systems is … Read More

Livefyre: A BlogWorld Expo Review

Comments are so last year. What’s happening now, and what you need to focus on is conversations.

That’s what Livefyre does. They actually take it a step further and focus on real-time conversations.

I’ve used nearly every comment/discussion platform in … Read More

What Is A WordCamp All About? [infographic]

The WordPress Community is one of the most dynamic and collaborative collective of like-minded folk I’ve ever seen.

From both a professional and personal perspective, I’ve met a ton of great working companions, partners, and yes – friends by collaborating … Read More

Managed WordPress Hosting – Here Come The Big Boys

Blogging, digital publishing, whatever you want to call it – it’s what’s happening and it’s what’s big. Actually, it hasn’t even began to explode yet since the market has so much incredible potential.

I, like millions of other bloggers use … Read More

Make Your WordPress Blog Look Like The Facebook Timeline

The ingeniousness of the development community never ceases to amaze me.

There has already been a WordPress plugin created to visually display your posts in the same fashion as the new Facebook Timeline.

Plugin: WP Facebook Timeline

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Create a … Read More

Make Your WordPress Blog Look Like The Facebook Timeline

The ingeniousness of the development community never ceases to amaze me.

There has already been a WordPress plugin created to visually display your posts in the same fashion as the new Facebook Timeline.

Plugin: WP Facebook Timeline

Description

Create a … Read More

Getting The Most Impact From Your Blogging Efforts

I recently gave a presentation at my local WordPress Meetup. The focus of my discussion was on Getting the Most Impact From Your Blogging Efforts.

Putting emphasis on the most effective plugins out there that provide 4 specific functions:

… Read More

WordPress Plugin Review: Category Grid View Gallery

When I find a plugin that kicks butt, I want to share it with everyone.

I’ve been searching everywhere for a quality WordPress plugin that allowed me to integrate a dynamic portfolio page within this blog. With the popularity of … Read More

WordPress Top40 [infographic]

If you need a managed WordPress site, go check out my good friends over at Page.ly – they are absolutely awesome and know their stuff.

Now, I’m not just saying that because of this very interesting, and for me, slightly … Read More

WordCamp SF 2011 – My Recap

Once again those of us deeply engrained with the WordPress content management system have descended on our yearly meeting mecca – WordCamp SF 2011 was this past weekend and, without a shadow of a doubt, it was awesome !

I’ve attended a total of 3 WordCamps live and in person, but have followed, via Twitter and other social media, countless other gatherings.

This year there were 3 jam-packed days of education and networking on the calendar. As normal there were 2 tracks; one for the beginner-to-novice and another for those who wanted to get deeper into the PHP and CSS weeds.

But even with the 2 tracks, there was even more segmentation for the attendees. Friday was aimed towards those who run professional or larger-scale installations. Off-site from the main facility there was an extensive workshop for those brand new to WordPress and blogging in general. On Saturday, designers and developers got the opportunity roll up their sleeves and really get an understanding of the code that makes up WordPress, theming, and plugin development. Then on Sunday everyone convened as the focus was on content creation (that’s pretty much all of us in this business…)

I bounced between both tracks and various sessions due to both interest in topic and a desire to support specific speakers. Only problem with that – ALL of the sessions were fantastic and I found myself, on a number of occasions, multi-tasking by sitting in one session and streaming another one on my laptop with my headphones on.

Let me not gloss of that distinct point – this was the first WordCamp that I’ve attended, or even known that all sessions were livestreamed during the event. The sessions were made available on the main WordCamp SF site for paid attendees.

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WordCamp SF 2011 – My Recap

Once again those of us deeply engrained with the WordPress content management system have descended on our yearly meeting mecca – WordCamp SF 2011 was this past weekend and, without a shadow of a doubt, it was awesome !

I’ve attended a total of 3 WordCamps live and in person, but have followed, via Twitter and other social media, countless other gatherings.

This year there were 3 jam-packed days of education and networking on the calendar. As normal there were 2 tracks; one for the beginner-to-novice and another for those who wanted to get deeper into the PHP and CSS weeds.

But even with the 2 tracks, there was even more segmentation for the attendees. Friday was aimed towards those who run professional or larger-scale installations. Off-site from the main facility there was an extensive workshop for those brand new to WordPress and blogging in general. On Saturday, designers and developers got the opportunity roll up their sleeves and really get an understanding of the code that makes up WordPress, theming, and plugin development. Then on Sunday everyone convened as the focus was on content creation (that’s pretty much all of us in this business…)

I bounced between both tracks and various sessions due to both interest in topic and a desire to support specific speakers. Only problem with that – ALL of the sessions were fantastic and I found myself, on a number of occasions, multi-tasking by sitting in one session and streaming another one on my laptop with my headphones on.

Let me not gloss of that distinct point – this was the first WordCamp that I’ve attended, or even known that all sessions were livestreamed during the event. The sessions were made available on the main WordCamp SF site for paid attendees.

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CMS vs. CMS [infographic]

I, personally, am true blue WordPress – have been for a number of years. However, I do have experience with Blogger, Joomla, and have dabbled a bit with Drupal (now that I think about it, not sure I’d consider Blogger … Read More

Looking For The BEST WordPress Host

I have a problem. One that is a good problem to have.

Our post about the crazy addictive music streaming site turntable.fm got retweeted by Robert Scoble.

When that happened a good number of his 190,000 Twitter followers headed to … Read More

Page.ly – By The Numbers [infographic]

Normally I only publish the infographic of the day without much commentary, but this one is different. I’m so personally and professionally tied to the dynamic couple of Josh and Sally Strebel that are the co-founders of Page.ly. I love … Read More

Wordcamp Reno 2011 [liveblog]

This is a 100% crowdsourced and community driven post about today’s Wordcamp Reno !

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The Power of WordPress [infographic]

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WordPress 3.1.3 Available

WordPress 3.1.3 is available now and is a security update for all previous versions.

It contains the following security fixes and enhancements:

• Various security hardening by Alexander Concha.
• Taxonomy query hardening by John Lamansky.
• Prevent sniffing out user names … Read More

Tech Byte: Buffer WordPress Plugin Released

Twitter has become one of the definitive means of sharing and collaborating online – no question about that.

Many of us have dashboards and services running that integrate into Twitter, that provide us with an over abundance of information throughout … Read More

Tech Byte: ViperBar vs. HelloBar

Digital Publishers are always looking for effective ways to bring traffic to their sites and retain those readers.

There are countless tools that allow you to subscribe to an email, or RSS feed of your favorite sites, but, many times … Read More

Tech Byte: upPrev WordPress Plugin

This week I’d like to point your attention to a great WordPress plugin: upPrev.

Usage

When a reader scrolls to the bottom of a single post, a button animates in the page’s bottom corner, allowing the reader to select the … Read More

WordPress 3.1 Available

Digital Publishers running on WordPress – today is a good day.

Version 3.1 of the world’s best CMS has been released and it is recommended that you update.

Here are the top updates included within this release:

• Internal Linking … Read More

My Tech: What I Use

I’ve wanted to write this post for a long time – highlighting the tech I use on a regular basis. This is a “living post” and will continue to evolve as I add/subtract items (I am an early … Read More

WordPress Blog Stats iApp Released

What is it that all bloggers and digital publishers want? Not everyone monetizes their site, so it’s not that. What they/we want first and foremost, is timely and accurate metrics showing our readership.

Building upon, retaining, and catering to the … Read More

New WordPress App Released For Windows Phone 7

In a post recently written by IntenseDebate Designer Isaac Keyet, it appears as though users of the new Windows Phone 7 devices can now get their hands on a slick looking and very functional mobile WordPress app.

Isaac mentions, … Read More

WordPress Tutorial: Moving to 3.0 Multi-User

This tutorial describes the steps involved in moving a single WordPress install to a new WordPress Multi-User install. Moving MySQL database tables, directories and themes is covered.

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WordPress Tutorial: Google Adsense

Google AdSense Quick Start Guide

Find out all there is to know about Google AdSense in this short instructional video. In just under 7 minutes, you will find out how to monetize your website or blog using GoogleAdSense in this … Read More

WordPress For iOS Updated

Oh it’s seemed like it’s been months and months – but the wait is finally over. The WordPress app for iPhone, iPod Touch devices running iOS if now available in the iTunes App Store.

In a way it has been … Read More

What is WordPress – Really ?

WordPress powers an astonishing 8.5% of all that is the interweb.

That’s an astonishing number for an open-source piece of software  that really isn’t all that old – when you think that Matt and Mike started with the first official … Read More

Get Matt Mullenweg’s WordPress Themes

Speaking of right from the horse’s mouth….Now you can get WordPress themes that Matt Mullenweg himself uses for his photoblog.

Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress, announced Saturday at WordCamp Savannah that he would be releasing two themes previously used … Read More

Get Matt Mullenweg's WordPress Themes

Speaking of right from the horse’s mouth….Now you can get WordPress themes that Matt Mullenweg himself uses for his photoblog.

Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress, announced Saturday at WordCamp Savannah that he would be releasing two themes previously used … Read More