Category: WordPress
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WordPress Feed Error with Whitespace or Extra Line Breaks Fixed
Tonight there is a BIG reason to rejoice in my house, and it’s not JUST because the tornados which visited the Oklahoma City metro area this afternoon missed our house. My good news is this: After two weeks of having my WordPress blog feed broken, it’s FIXED at last! In this post I’ll document, both…
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WordPress Security Tips (May 2013)
These are my tweeted notes (along with some from other attendees) on Tony Perez of Sucuri‘s excellent webinar for WebDesign.com on WordPress security on May 1, 2013. Many thanks to iThemes for hosting this GREAT webinar. [View the story “WordPress Security Tips (May 2013)” on Storify] Technorati Tags: blog, security, wordpress
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April 2013 OKC WordPress User Group Meetup Notes
These are my notes from last night’s WordPress User’s Group Meetup in Edmond, Oklahoma. The OKC WordPress Users Group meets each month (generally) on the last Monday of the month at 7 pm. Many thanks to Erick Gfeller and Morgan Estes for the informative presentations! * [View the story “#wordPressOKC Notes 29 April 2013” on…
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Update and Manage Multiple WordPress Sites with InfiniteWP
Last week I attended a fantastic webinar about InfiniteWP on WebDesign.com taught by Benjamin Bradley. If you maintain multiple self-hosted WordPress websites, you definitely need to check out InfiniteWP. It’s a FREE, installable web tool that lets you update WordPress plugins, themes, and the WordPress core from a centralized site and login. In addition, a…
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Options & Tips for Migrating a Posterous site to WordPress, Tumblr, or Posthaven
Three days ago the blogging service Posterous officially announced they will close up shop / go offline on April 30, 2013. Those of us who have used Posterous in the past few years and grown to love it are disappointed, but thankfully there are several alternatives available to Posterous and even more are likely to…
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Playing with FeedWordPress: Planning for the Classroom Newspaper of Now
Clay Shirky contends what many people perceive as “information overload” in their lives today is actually “filter failure.” Immense quantities of information criss-cross our planet at the speed of light 24/7, so our abilities to effectively filter and purposefully direct flows of information have become important literacy skills. In this post, I’m going to share…
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Custom Content Types and Gravity Forms in WordPress
These are my notes from the October 29, 2012 OKC WordPress User’s Group meet up. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. (I arrived about 30 min late.) Kristen Wright of iThemes was the first presenter of the evening, discussing ‘Custom Post Types – What They Are and Why You Might Want to Use…
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Can Blogger.com Support Moderated Web Forms for Post Contributions Like WordPress?
I’d love some help answering this question: Can Blogger.com sites support “moderated web forms for post contributions which include attached photos” like WordPress can using Gravity forms or TDO-Mini Forms? I think the answer is no, but I’d like confirmation. I need to setup a “lesson idea sharing site” for teachers and principals to use…
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Lessons Learned from WordPress Blog Upgrades
This evening I spent a few hours updating a long list of different WordPress blogs I maintain and have put online in the past few years. Since I have so many sites online now, I probably should commit regular time each month or so to this upgrade process. Not upgrading your site can leave you…
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Professionally Mobilize Your WordPress Blog with PluginBuddy Mobile
Huge numbers of people today are accessing Internet websites on mobile devices, so it is imperative content publishers pay attention to the way websites display on smaller, handheld screens. A webpage that looks readable and well laid out on a laptop screen can look terrible on a smartphone. As educators publishing curriculum, classroom updates, and…