I’m a WordPress junkie from Boulder, Colorado. I teach WordPress classes at Boulder Digital Arts, consult, train, and code. Questions I receive on this site help me to be a better teacher and find the best WordPress, CSS, and other web development resources to share with my students.
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Read MorePlease join me for this class on WordPress Security Essentials, Tuesday, July 13, 2010, at the new Boulder Digital Arts studio. Use discount code BDA-Instructor-2010 to receive 10% off the class. WordPress is an easy, powerful way to build and maintain a website. This flexible, highly customizable content management system (CMS) is ideal for blogs, [...]
Read MoreToday, from about 2:10 to 3:10 MT (by my calculations) my bluehost.com and hostmonster.com hosted websites were down. Twitter provided some clues as to a power outage, and I searched for Blue Host’s headquarters and found the Salt Lake Tribune’s article about Provo, Utah’s massive power outage. Within 1 hour, the sites were all back [...]
Read MoreQ. I’ve installed my website in a subdirectory of our domain, because I didn’t want visitors to see the site until I was finished with our development. Now I want to have the site show up in the root directory (not in the http://mydomain.com/wordpress directory). How do I do this? I’ve read the information on [...]
Read MoreClean and simple list of the plugins I use most often on my WordPress sites and some that I’ve included just because they’re too cool to not mention.
Read MoreQ. How do I set up RSS Feeds and enable email subscription to feeds on my self-hosted WordPress website? Also, how do I promote that feed elsewhere (like on my LinkedIn account)? By default, WordPress comes with various feeds (http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds). These different feeds are invoked via template tags in the WordPress theme header.php file. You [...]
Read MoreQ: How do I embed video on my website? A: The answer to this question depends on who owns the video and where it is hosted. If it’s a video you’ve created, and you want to host it on your site, then you’ll want to convert the video file (whether it’s an .mov, .avi, or [...]
Read MoreQ: If you develop websites with WordPress for clients, what do you do about upgrading their sites? Do you upgrade all of your clients sites every time a new version of WordPress comes out? Do you only upgrade when there’s a security risk? Do you tell your clients before you start that you will be [...]
Read MoreThe other night, I was part of a panel discussion at Boulder Digital Arts about WordPress. We had three panelists: me, Bethany Siegler of UniqueThink.com, and Doulgas Wray of MacWebGuru.com. In the middle of the presentation, someone asked: A programmer friend of mine suggested that I should use a lesser known CMS because WordPress is [...]
Read MoreAll posts on your WordPress site will be formatted using the single.php template. The single.php file is used when you click on the post title on the home page of the blog, and you see just the single post. This is efficient, but what if you have a Category of your website where you want [...]
Read MoreTags: customizing WordPress Theme, single.php, WordPress Template
WordPress comes in two varieties: WordPress.com — a version of WordPress that is hosted for free at the WordPress.com website. When you sign up for a WordPress.com account, you don’t have to worry about installing WordPress. You just sign up, and you’re given a login to an account that has WordPress already set up for [...]
Read MoreTags: dns, domain registration, nameservers, web host
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