On December 11th Direct Online Marketing held a Google Wheeling workshop at the Wilson Lodge at Olgebay Park outside of Wheeling, WV. DOM was selected by Google to host the event. It looked like there was about 55 people in attendance from the Wheeling area. After a great breakfast, Justin Siebert started the Read more…
I was listening to the KitchensinkWP podcast (episode E038) a few days ago when Adam Silver mentioned 2 WordPress eBooks were available at the Hot Off the Press WordPress dot com website. I checked the website and downloaded the 2 eBooks – Writing 101 and Writing 201. While I was browsing Read more…
I just ran across something that hit me right between the eyes and I wanted to get this published while these thoughts are racing through my mind. This not really a post about WordPress versus Drupal. I was doing some research for a presentation I am putting together and ran Read more…
It has been an interesting week in my little WordPress world. I have been learning a lot about working with WordPress. I found a couple of neat plugins and did a WordPress update the hard way (well, at least to me). Manual Update I have been needing (in a bad Read more…
I first read about Matt Mullenweg’s statement about companies contributing five percent of their people to working on the WordPress core on WPTavern. I then read Matt’s post on his ma.tt site. This is a great concept! BUT! What about small companies? What about people like myself who have no Read more…
Congratulations! Hats Off! Two thumbs up! Whatever you want to call it, WordCamp Ann Arbor was a great event. The organizers, volunteers and speakers all did a great job. I did not hear what the attendance was but it looked like 130 to 140 people were in attendance. The venue, Read more…
I knew this would happen again! I am awake in plenty of time to get ready for WordCamp Ann Arbor on this fine Saturday morning. It is nice and cool, it rained sometime during the night and looks to be a beautiful day BUT I sure could have used a Read more…
I have been fairly busy at work and home with WordPress the last few weeks. I just upgraded all of my websites to WordPress 4.1. No problems “easy peasy” (which is a version of Linux which I ran on a notebook laptop). Security has been in the news for Read more…
It has been an interesting few weeks since I attended WordCamp Columbus on August 2, 2014 and it seems like a lot of Random WordPress events have caught my attention. WordCamp Columbus I understand that some people have offered to help Angie Meeker with the organizing of next years WordCamp Read more…
It has been two weeks since WordCamp Columbus was held on August 1st and 2nd and I have been struggling over writing this post. It was well attended, the venue was very suitable for a WordCamp, the volunteers did a great job and overall it was a great event. That is Read more…