Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2017
One of my favorite things about WordPress is when you find a reliable theme or plugin developer, and then you realize that the search for high-quality website-building tools is over. The only thing I worry about with these sorts of WordPress relationships, however, is that you never really know who you’re dealing with. Or how […] View original post at …
Automattic announced its intent to protest the FCC’s attack on net neutrality today by making a way for the millions of WordPress.com users to join in. The company’s logo has been listed on the Save Net Neutrality event website for some time but it had yet to announce how it would be participating. WordPress.com users are encouraged to send a …
We’re pulling back the curtain and exposing our biggest plans for our most popular projects on our shiny new public facing Product Roadmap. You read that right! We have big ideas, a ton of new features in the pipeline, and a bunch of teams working around the clock to constantly improve our products and services. We […] View original post at …
While at WordCamp Europe I had the opportunity to interview Dustin Meza, lead organizer of WordCamp US 2017, and Laura Byrne-Cristiano, who is part of the marketing team for the event. The two are members of a 20-person team of organizers who will welcome an estimated 2,500 attendees to Nashville in December. Although the maximum capacity of the Music City …
Custom fields are an often under-used aspect of WordPress. But with a bit of imagination and some custom code, you can do all sorts of fun things with them. In this post, I’m going to show you how to combine custom fields (or post metadata if you’re being particular) with the WP_Query class to output […] View original post at …
By now, I don’t think anyone needs to be told how awesome video content is. It’s easy enough to create with your own personal mobile device. There is a multitude of video editing tools to trim, filter, and personalize those videos. And there are free-to-use video streaming platforms like YouTube that empower users to publish […] View original post at …
When your site is live, one of the first things you’re probably thinking is, “Is this thing actually working?” Without an immediate barrage of sales or signups, it’s hard to know what’s happening. Does your site even have any visitors and, if so, where are they coming from? Do they always enter from the home […] View original post at …
You may have to update your new company’s brand to reflect your values, vision and purpose. Here’s how. View original post at Entrepreneur…
photo credit: Chris Anderson Let’s Encrypt, the free and open certificate authority that launched in 2016, has issued more than 100 million certificates as of June 2017 and is currently securing 47 million domains. Earlier this year, the web passed a major milestone of getting more than 50% of traffic encrypted. Let’s Encrypt has been a major contributor to that …
Let’s be honest: running a business requires a lot of stamina. You need to manage your business (finances, employees, and client relationships, to start). You need to continue doing the work that gets you paid (development, design, writing, whatever it is you offer). And then you need to find time to build your client list […] View original post at …
