Mark Jaquith: I have to ask: Can you explain the bear?
Oh yes. This is why I love going to WordCamps. Silly stuff like this that you can laugh about later. Original post by Mark Jaquith
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Matt: Chic & Geek Interview
On the new Chic & Geek website (no relation to Chic Meets Geek events) I was invited to do a “Questionnaire de Proust” style interview which has just been published in French. Lots of little tidbits that I’ve never talked about before. (Translation here.) Original post by Matt
Mark Jaquith: Upcoming WordPress Events
On September 8th, I’ll be at the Tampa Bay WordPress meetup to talk about WordPress custom post types. If you’re a WordPress developer or themer in the area, you should stop by! The meetup is at 7pm at CDB’s Southside in South Tampa. WordCamp Portland is on September 18th and 19th at Webtrends. My talk [...]
Matt: Upcoming WordCamps
I really enjoyed attending WordCamps in Houston, Savannah, and Salt Lake City the past few weeks. You can always find upcoming WordCamps here, and I’m currently planning on attending Jerusalem (this Sunday), Portland (September 18-19), and Philippines (October 2). I’m looking forward to meeting more of the WordPress community and also answering your questions in [...]
WordPress Podcast: Listen to Liz Strauss: “Treat Your Blog Like a Business!”
Liz Strauss gave a masterclass tonight; at least, that’s how it felt to both Frederick and myself. We talked about communicating with your audience, and Liz shared some experiences about open comment nights. We discussed positioning yourself and your blog, and how important personal branding can be. She told us about feedback loops, and how [...]
Lorelle on WP: Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins
In Dallas, August 29, 2010, at OpenCamp I presented “Mind Blowing WordPress Plugins.” Here are the WordPress Plugins and more features during my presentation. Let me first define what my qualifications for a “mind blowing WordPress Plugin” were, as I had to sift through thousands of Plugins and then filter down to include the following [...]
Canvas as a Framework
One of the ideas that have been getting a lot attention of late (after our Open Forum two weeks ago), is turning Canvas into more of a theme development framework, which would empower our developers even further in terms of building 99% of their WordPress-powered websites with Canvas. Our opinion is that Canvas is a [...]
WordPress hack: Get rid of HTML in comments
Just paste the code below into your functions.php file. If you prefer to use a plugin with the same functionality, you can grab one here. // This will occur when the comment is posted function plc_comment_post( $incoming_comment ) { // convert everything in a comment to display literally $incoming_comment['comment_content'] = htmlspecialchars($incoming_comment['comment_content']); // the one exception [...]
Matt: Hiking in Alta, UT
A short hike up to Cecret Lake and along Sugarloaf peak in Little Cottonwood Canyon near Alta, UT. The Wasatch Mountains are a great place to be outdoors. Guest photographer: Sheri Bigelow. Original post by sheri
Weblog Tools Collection: Should You Remove Post Dates from Your WordPress Blog?
You may be wondering why anyone would want to do this. Think about it, you probably have hundreds of articles that you wrote years ago and when those same articles appear on Google search engine results, the dates appear next to the description. You might think that this is great, users searching the web should [...]
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