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Many people dream of ditching their forty hour, nine to five work week. Being able to leave behind the man, work for yourself, set your own hours, and make more money sounds awesome right? I mean, who doesn’t want that? If you’re a freelance web designer, then you’ve already...
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Some people will never touch the file that sets the most important details that make a site unique: wp-config. In fact, since WordPress automatically creates the file during its famous “5 minute installation” a lot of users don’t even know it’s there or ever need to touch...
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I’m a big advocate of building community on your website. It falls in line with that whole social networking, thought leadership stuff that’s so important and so effective right now. Of course, when you’re first setting up a WordPress site for yourself or a client, it can be...
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If you’re like a lot of us WordPress enthusiasts, you make your living using the CMS in some way. For me, it’s writing blog posts (hey, like this one!) that pays my bills. For others, it’s building themes and plugins. Still others earn a living wage by creating custom sites for...
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Last week I introduced you to the magic of AJAX and showed you how to use a few plugins to easily “AJAXify” your WordPress site. By “AJAXify” I mean using AJAX to change the page, already loaded in the browser, without refreshing the page. You can’t do that using pure...
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Summer is gone and Fall is here on the West Coast. Can you believe it? September has come and passed, and now we’re all one month closer to the new year — man times flies! We have yet another great roundup of all the best WordPress related posts in our September 2014 Edition of This Month...
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When you pull up your Twitter newsfeed, it’s easy for articles to get lost in the noise. Twitter cards are a feature that curtails this a bit, highlighting articles within a newsfeed with relevant metadata, such as titles and images. You’ve probably seen them in action from larger...
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As an artist, photographer, designer, or other creative professional, a website showcasing your work is imperative. It’s a great way to showcase your work and build an online presence. Previously, those who wanted to create a portfolio website needed to brush up their web design skills or...
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Ever noticed how some websites, and especially web apps never require you to reload the page? The content loads automatically when you click a link, you log in from a little popup and everything is nice and fast. Isn’t that great? The magic that powers it is almost always powered by AJAX a...
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In this tech-savvy day and age, keyboard shortcuts are nothing new. In fact, you probably use these types of shortcuts every day. For example, when Windows users want to Copy and Paste something, most will use the shortcut CTRL + C, and then, CTRL + V to execute the action. But did you know that...
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Outside of the content you write, your author page is your mark on the web. It’s your virtual footprint on any given blog or site you write for. Which means it’s important and you need to spend some time optimizing and customizing it. While many themes include author pages by default,...
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It’s September! Which means fall is here, the pumpkin spice lattes are flowing, and the end of 2014 is in sight. We can now begin to look at the web design trends of 2014 (so far) and make some predictions as to what will have staying power in 2015. At least that’s what I plan to...
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