Professional Blogging
You Moved My What?
Tweet The good ol’ admin account. Every website has one, and WordPress installs it by default. Therefore everyone who wants to hack your site knows exactly what account to try for. But, what if you didn’t use that name? Seriously, if everyone changed the location of their car’s ignition switch, wouldn’t it suck to be a car thief? Imagine how long it would take if... More...
Can I Borrow Your Shoes
Tweet Wouldn’t it be cool to own your own link shortening service like bit.ly or tinyURL or a myriad of others nowadays? Think a moment about how the URL shorteners work. Every time you use their service, you’re giving away an opportunity to advertise your own site. You are literally expanding their traffic in favor of your own site. Advertising is normally a paid thing. When... More...
Share Visitor Traffic By Creating A Related Content Community
Tweet Oliver Wellington from nRelate recently contacted us about a new WordPress plugin that nRelate is developing to help bloggers add value to their existing content and potentially make some money in the process. Oliver also wanted to know if we would help spread the word about their beta testing program. So we decided to set up and record a conference call with him so he could tell... More...
Let Website Visitors Listen To Your Blog
Tweet During last night’s Open Source Marketer Wednesday Member’s Webinar we talked about how you can use the Odiogo Listen Button to create a Text Content Factory that adds text-to-speech audio player to your blog. Odiogo provides a free services that turns your text blog posts into spoken audio. Website visitors can either click the play button on the built in audio player... More...
Rotate Header Images in Order using Atahualpa Theme
Tweet By default, Atahualpa allows you to upload multiple images and rotate through them. I was asked recently whether or not it could rotate in a specific order. Much to my delight, the answer was easy to code. Atahualpa makes finding things you want to change easy and accessible. All I really did was add 1 short line to the the javascript code (don’t get dizzy, there’s no... More...
How To Save 3 Hours Setting Up WordPress MU on Hostgator
Tweet Recently an Open Source Marketer member contacted us for help with their WordPress MU installation. They had everything installed on Hostgator, but for some reason they weren’t able to automatically create subdomains. Since they had set up their MU installation to use subdomains instead of subdirectories, this was driving them crazy. Each time they would create a new blog,... More...
You Lost Me At Beige…
Tweet Color Theory for the Color-Blind “Sweetheart, does this match?” “No it doesn’t. You’re not really going to wear that are you?” Color is not my thing. My wife, on the other hand, is a graphic designer. When we were getting carpet for our house, she brought out 3 samples and asked me which one I liked more. “The beige one.” “They... More...
How to make WordPress widgets show only on selected pages and posts
Tweet Have you ever wanted a WordPress widget to show only on one page or post? It’s extremely useful to be able to limit widgets based on where a visitor is in your blog. Not only does it help you preserve and manage your valuable screen real estate, but it also helps you organize information for your website visitors. A good example of how this might work limiting ads to relevant... More...
Create Robust Contact Forms Using The CForms WordPress Plugin
Tweet We always seem to want information from people who visit our sites. Online forms are a basic component for collecting this information. Contact forms, registration forms, or help requests all require a site visitor to input their information. After having a client complain about an existing WordPress form plugin on his site, I went looking for alternatives. What I found was the CForms... More...
Podcasting – H2 Zoom Recorder
Tweet How would you like to record a podcast interview with a portable open air microphone and still get studio quality sound without spending more than a couple hundred dollars in the process? Well, if you use the H2 Zoom Recorder you can do just that and more. The H2 Zoom runs on double AA batteries, has VCR style controls, and takes standard SD cards for additional storage space. Here... More...
Julie and Julia Brings Blogging Mainstream
Tweet Once again main stream media is promoting another Internet phenomena. It is said that art imitates life and the just released Julie and Julia movie is sure to be another premium example of this. In case you don’t know, Julie and Julia is a movie that parallels the story of two women who overcome their fears as they embark on a new paths in life. Julie is a writer turned office... More...
Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp Dallas 2009
Tweet Matt Mullenweg spoke at WordCamp Dallas 2009 on the state of WordPress. Here are a few screenshots from the live stream. Matt Mullenweg State of the Word Presentation Matt Mullenweg on B2 Matt Mullenweg Blogging Software Dilemma Post World Wide WordCamp Events Indonesian WordPress Books WordPress Logo T-Shirts P2 Faster Blogging Real WordPress Tatoo Question And Answer Resource Mentions TypeKit... More...
Randy Hoyt at WordCamp Dallas 2009
Tweet Randy Hoyt spoke at WordCamp Dallas 2009 on putting custom fields to work on a WordPress blog. Custom fields give you the ability to extend the type of meta-data that can be associated with your WordPress posts. This session topic was covered in extreme detail so I won’t try to reproduce the bulk of the session materials here. But, the important take away is that WordPress... More...
Panel Discussion at WordCamp Dallas 2009
Tweet Photos from the WordCamp Dallas 2009 discussion panel via screenshots of the Ustream Live event feed. John P moderating the WordCamp Dallas 2009 Discussion Panel Liz Strauss on the WordCamp Dallas 2009 Discussion Panel Mark Hopkins on the WordCamp Dallas 2009 Discussion Panel WordCamp Dallas 2009 Discussion Panel Cali Lewis on the WordCamp Dallas 2009 Discussion Panel Dave Moyer... More...
