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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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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.

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Optimizing WordPress Posts With Socialize

One of the things I’ve been thinking more about lately is how to encourage sharing without overwhelming readers. Just dumping ten buttons at the top or bottom of every post doesn’t really work, most people don’t use half of them, and it just creates noise. That’s why I built Socialize and why I’ve been using […]

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Creating A Video Section On Your WordPress Blog

A while back, I started experimenting with posting videos on my blog. At the time, the easiest way to organize them was to create a dedicated “Video” category. I’d tag any video post with it, exclude them from the homepage and pull the latest one into the sidebar using a bit of custom code. It […]

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Breaking Social Media Barriers

I think one of the things holding back Twitter from going “mainstream” is the fact that it’s so open and public. I was browsing through some blogs the other day and found a comment that read: … Twitter is like a crowded room where everyone is yelling over each other …