The other day I was looking over my personal goals that I had set going into 2009. I feel really good about what I was able to accomplish in 2009 but unfortunately there are still a few things that I am going to carry over into 2010. This is not to say that 2009 was […]
WordPress Plugin: Max Banner Ad Plugin
This past week I have been working on a project for a sports radio station in WordPress. One of the requirements for the project was that they wanted to be able to run a lot of advertising rotations (banner ads) on the site. My partners and I have an ad server of our own that […]
WordPress Exploit Scanner
If you are like me, you want to make sure that the software you run is as secure as possible. My partners and I even subscribe to several third party services that actually scan our servers looking for exploits that could be taken advantage of by hackers or script kiddies. Since one of the most […]
Disqus & kPicasa Plugin Conflict Resolution
Okay so I had some issues the other day implementing Disqus commenting platform on my blog and I more or less threw my hands up in the air and contacted @disqus on Twitter about the situation. Well today my partner Greg and I, through a system of deactivation, finally came across the issue and I […]
Theme Issues w/ IE + DISQUS
This past week at the Central Arkansas Refresh I got to talking to Keith Crawford about Disqus commenting platform and I was telling him that I felt like commenting platforms were going to be extremely competitive in the future. Out of the box WordPress commenting platform works well but it leaves a lot to be […]
#RefreshCA WordPress Code Camp Brainstorm
It’s impossible to attend a meeting of the Central Arkansas Refresh Group and not have someone bring up the topic of WordPress. I just thought that I was the head cheerleader for wordpress in this area until I started hanging around with some of the #RefreshCA guys, they love it just about as much as […]
My Top 10 MVP’s (Most Valuable WordPress Plugins)
One of the best things about hosting your own wordpress installation or it is hosted outside of wordpress.com, you will need to go onto wordpress.com and setup an account to get a key. It only takes a few minutes to do and it can be reused every time you do a new installation. Contact Form […]
Twitme, LiveWriter, WP 2.8 Bug – Workaround
The other day I posted an entry about a bug that I had ran into using the Twitme plugin for WordPress, and as I mentioned in my post the only thing that had changed was that I had recently upgraded to 2.8.1 on WordPress. I also mentioned that I was getting this error when I […]
Possible Twitme Bug w/ WordPress 2.8
A few days ago I updated my personal blog to WordPress 2.8 and for the most part everything seemed to be working fine but I noticed yesterday that when I published to my blog using Windows Live Writer I started seeing an error message. If you are not familiar w/ Live Writer it’s a great […]
Demo – Adding Featured Content (articleimg & thumbnail)
In this video demonstration I walk you through the process of adding Featured Content to your website or blog. The Featured Content area, as shown in the video, is the centerpiece of your website where Images are scrolled through and content is pulled in from each featured post and displayed in a layer above the […]
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