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Web Development WordPress

How to Find and Reclaim Your Lost WordPress Website

If you’re a business owner and you can’t remember where your WordPress website is hosted, who set it up or even who owns the domain name, you’re not alone. I’ve had countless conversations with clients who paid thousands for a website only to find out years later they have no login credentials, no hosting access […]

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WordPress

WordPress 6+ and the Gutenberg Site Editor

WordPress 5.9 officially made Gutenberg the backbone of the platform, transforming how users manage content and build websites. No longer just a tool for posts and pages, the Gutenberg block editor now allows you to design entire sites visually, from headers to footers. With this shift, the role of page templates, custom post types and […]

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AI Experiment WordPress

Experimenting with GPT-4 API for Automated Web Design in WordPress

I still try and keep up with all things WordPress, so I was eager to review the current state of generative AI integrations. I was ultimately surprised to see that a majority of the integrations revolved around copywriting and image asset creation. So, in my ongoing exploration of AI technologies, I’ve developed a WordPress plugin […]

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Social Media WordPress

The Death of On-Site Social Bookmarking

Back in the early days of social media, on-site social bookmarking buttons were a must-have feature for websites. These little buttons made it easy for users to share articles, blog posts and other web content to their favorite platforms with just a click. I even created a WordPress plugin called Socialize to make this easier […]

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Video Post WordPress

Panel Discussion: WordPress Development Process

People are still buzzing about this year’s Boston WordCamp. The organizers did an amazing job and their were a ton of excellent talks. This year I jumped in on a last minute panel discussion about WordPress development process. It was a great panel with a very diverse background. I was most interested to hear how […]

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Themes Web Development WordPress

WordPress Starter Themes and Development Tips

WordPress starter themes are themes that include the bare minimum needed to start building out a new theme. For this reason I usually call them WordPress developer theme frameworks. They exist to help jump-start the development process on new sites.

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WordPress

Did WordPress Do That?

WordPress is tremendously powerful, mostly because of its enthusiastic community. I’m constantly surprised at how many people still think WordPress is just for blogging. Check out this pie chart that shows CMS distribution across thousands of websites. WordPress is easily the most popular. What I thought was even cooler was that WordPress did a survey […]

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How To Plugins WordPress

Creating Presentations With Custom Post Types

I wanted to come up with a cool way to showcase how powerful custom post types were for the Boston WordPress meetup.

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WordPress

Why You Should Check Out Your Local WordPress Meetup

I recently joined Kurt Eng as an organizer of the Boston WordPress Meetup. I also got to help organize and run this past Boston WordCamp.

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WordPress

Keeping Up With WordPress

There are tons of ways to keep up with developments in the WordPress community. In this post I wanted to share some of my favorite sources of information when it comes to WordPress.