WordPress Cyber Monday Sales
It’s that time of the year again. The Christmas shopping rush has started, and online products and services are participating in offering the best deals of the year. We have compiled a list of our favorite discounts on various WordPress plugins, themes, and training. These deals are all offered for a limited time, so don’t [...]
Images in Posts and Pages: Using WordPress Media Library
One of the features within WordPress I get asked about most is the Media Library. Specifically how to attach and use images within a blog post or web page. Unfortunately it is also one of the areas with the poorest documentation. Here I’ll discuss what I’ve learnt in the hope that you’ll find it useful.
WordPress – An essential small business tool
WordPress is not just for bloggers. Many well-known and very successful companies use it. So why wouldn’t you use it for your small business? In this article I discuss why WordPress makes sense for any small business owner who wants a presence on the web.
WordCamp Savannah – Great city, great WordCamp
WordCamp Savannah, held this past weekend, was the 6th WordCamp that the Semper Fi Web Design team has attended this year. Previous WordCamps include Boston, Miami, San Francisco, Raleigh (of course), and Chicago. Each one was enjoyable not just for the WordCamp itself but also for the location and the people I have met.
WordCamp
For everyone who attended this year’s WordCamp, thank you for helping to make it a huge success! For those who weren’t able to make it to WordCamp Raleigh 2010, we had an amazing lineup of speakers, over 260 attendees, and tons of fun and exciting times for all. Check out our first batch of WordCamp [...]
Setting up a WordPress development environment on your hosted server
If you are running WordPress but you don’t do your development and testing on a separate development copy then this article is for you. This, the second in a series of articles on WordPress security, will discuss how to set up a copy of WordPress on your hosted server for development and testing. In the [...]
Setting up a local WordPress development environment
This is the first in a series of How To articles that take you through the steps you should follow to ensure you have a stable and secure WordPress platform. In this article I am going to discuss the steps you should follow to set up a local instance of WordPress for development and testing.
WordCamp Raleigh 2010
For those of you who haven’t heard, WordCamp is coming to Raleigh in May. The inaugural event of WordCamp Raleigh has been scheduled for Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd May and will be held at the Raleigh Sheraton Hotel in downtown Raleigh. We are very excited to be involved in this event and we expect [...]
All in One SEO Pack Backwards Compatibility
All in One SEO Pack currently supports quite a number of older versions of WordPress. This isn’t necessarily a pain to keep up, but does require extra code as well as additional testing. Potentially even more significant are the security implications. Justin Tadlock wrote an insightful post about whether plugins and theme authors should force [...]