I am sure this question comes up periodically. “Why Pay?” for a theme, plugin, service or program when there are free options available? Well, as the old saying goes, sometimes you get exactly what you pay for. Now I am not saying that there aren’t some fantastic free WordPress themes, plugins or Read more…
I gave a presentation at 2 WordCamps last year titled Find WordPress Help and I thought I would update the information to post here. If you Google “WordPress Help” you will see 541,000,000 results. Confusing? Yes! Unsurmountable? NO! Podcast First off, I am a huge fan of podcasts. Some of the Read more…
To paraphrase the original 1987 movie Wall Street, “Change Is Good”. We have heard people make that statement throughout the years, mostly by older people. For those of us involved in technology (in one way or another) change has been a constant. Let’s take a look at the year 1997. There Read more…
“What do you get out of it?” It was Sunday afternoon at WordCamp Columbus. During one of the sessions someone ask how many people had to pay their own way to WordCamps. I was one of a few that raised my hand. Afterward I was standing outside when I was Read more…
It seems much longer ago than September 2014 that Matt Mullenweg wrote about the WordPress Community and giving 5 percent. I had been volunteering as a moderator with WordPress.tv for a few months. When I read Matt’s article, I suddenly realized that I was a part of something so much Read more…
I have probably mentioned previously that I actively maintain 6 WordPress sites and help out periodically on 2 others. One of the sites I maintain is for AITP Region 18. I belong to the local Greater Wheeling Chapter and I make post on a monthly basis for chapter and 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…