Open Source and Selecting a CMS

Web publishing is an interesting business. The content itself is one thing, but the software you use to publish is another thing altogether. At the basic level, you have those who are still using HTML editors and FTP to publish pages to their site. All I can say is “Ouch!”. I pity you. Then, there [...]

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Wordpress and Curing High Server Load

So far, my recent conversion of PC Mechanic to Wordpress has been relatively trouble free. Of course, that is a matter of context. Switching publishing platforms on a site as large as PCMech isn’t exactly cake. It doesn’t turn on a dime. So, relatively speaking, it has been relatively pain free. However…
One of the things [...]

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How I Converted a Non-Blog Site to Wordpress

This post may have a few follow-ups - because it is a big subject. However, I just last night launched PC Mechanic as a Wordpress -powered website. Easy right? Not so much. PC Mechanic is not really a blog. In fact, it doesn’t even resemble a blog. WebbyOnline (this site) is also Wordpress powered, but [...]

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WP-ContactForm with Departments

WP-ContactForm with Departments is a modified version of WP-Contactform by Ryan Duff. I created this plug-in because I needed a contact form in Wordpress that would allow users to select a department and have the emailed message sent to a different email address depending on the department they chose. WP-ContactForm is a nice solution [...]

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Wordpress EasyFeeds Plug-In

EasyFeeds is a simple plug-in which will allow you to display the contents of any RSS feed inside of a post or page inside of Wordpress. The output will be a simple unordered list with no formatting. You can use your own site’s stylesheet to style the list as you see fit. The plug-in uses [...]

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Wordpress Plug-ins

In the process of my own working with Wordpress, I have developed a few plug-ins to get various things done. Below are the plug-ins. I will release them as they are ready for prime-time.
EasyFeeds
Provides a quick way to show headlines from an RSS feed in your pages or posts
WP-ContactForm with Departments
A modified version of WP [...]

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How to Submit a Wordpress Powered Podcast to Itunes

OK, this post is notable for two reasons. One is that I am going show you how to do something. Two is I’m going to SHOW you how to do something, as in my first video for WebbyOnline. Watch and learn something (hopefully). This video is going to walk you through the basics of setting [...]

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Lazy Linkage - Wordpress, Universal Search

A snippet of the content from this week’s newsletter, too. See, I told you it was lazy linkage!
Chris Garret makes a great point over at CopyBlogger. He talks about how fancy jargon can and will drive away your visitors. As a person who writes online and has also spent time studying the subject [...]

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Solution - Wordpress Theme Reverts to Default (Kubrick)

OK, as some of you may have noticed if you come here every now and then, this site has been periodically reverting to the big, ugly default theme for Wordpress, known as Kubrick. It has been seemingly doing this all by itself. I thought perhaps it was a bug introduced by the Amazon Media Manager [...]

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Wordpress Theme Switch - Solved?

Just as a quick followup, I think I might have solved the issue with this site’s theme mysteriously reverting back to the default Kubrick theme all by itself. Apparently, the culprit is the Amazon Media Manager plug-in for Wordpress. I had downloaded and installed it, and it was activated even though I was not using [...]

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