Tag: wordpress
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Lessons Learned with Website eBook eCommerce Continue (August 2018)
About 4 years ago, inspired by a local writer’s conference, I created a WordPress-powered website to independently sell digital copies of my books as well as offer a subscription-based video library of instructional how-to videos. I haven’t given that project much attention or “care and feeding” in awhile, since I transitioned to a new job…
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16 Years of Web Hosting Changes with WordPress and Other Web Platforms: The Lessons Continue
This past December, I started the laborious and often stressful process of migrating my 40+ websites (mostly running WordPress) to a new web host. This time, I’m moving from a VPS (virtual private server) with Site5.com to a VPS with LiquidWeb… I’m not done with this migration process, but I’m about halfway finished, and have reached…
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Daily Blogging and an Ode to RSS
One of my favorite Twitter lists which I follow regularly in Flipboard is “Gigaom Vets.” The list includes people who previously worked for GigaOm magazine, which has been rebooted but unexpectedly fired all its staff in March 2015. They were an amazing group of tech and tech culture journalists, and they still are, except now they…
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WordPress OKC February 2017 Learning Points
This evening I had an opportunity to attend a monthly WordPress OKC Meetup (@okcwpug) for the first time in many months, and as always I learned a bunch of new things. I archived my Tweets from the evening, shared mostly with the hashtag #WPOKC, in a Storify archive, which I’ll embed below. After many years,…
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Learning about Schoolwide WordPress Blogs with Andrea Hernandez
This week at the 2015 Miami Device Conference I met Andrea Hernandez (@edtechworkshop), an educator at the Martin J. Gottlieb Day School in Jacksonville, Florida. Andrea is at forefront of using WordPress blogs as “Blogfolios” for all students at her school. Their Blogfolios project is in its 6th year! Her post “Blogfolios Framework” includes a wonderfully helpful infographic…
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Managing WordPress Installations in CPANEL (Monday Sept 28th)
If you are a WordPress user or interested in WordPress, come to the FREE OKC WordPress Users Group on Monday, September 28th at Oklahoma Christian University (OC) in Edmond. The meetup starts at 7 pm. I’ll be presenting on the topic, “Managing WordPress Installations in CPANEL.” Some of the topics I plan to address include: What…
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WordPress OKC Meetup Tips (August 2015)
Tonight was our monthly Oklahoma City WordPress Meetup, and although I was almost an hour late (due to family carpooling duties) I still learned about a variety of new WordPress plugins I hadn’t previously encountered. Stephen Bell, the co-founder of the OKC-based web design company Steed Interactive, shared the second presentation of the evening which…