Last night’s PDX WordPress Meetup Group: WordPress Codex Night was a resounding success. In just under two hours, 130 changes were made to the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users. On the informal WordPress Documentation Team Task List,… Read More

The WordPress Meetup Group in Portland, Oregon, has invited me to tonight’s meetup at the US Bancorps Building in downtown PDX to talk about the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users, and how to contribute. I’ll show them… Read More

Good morning, you epic article writer, you. That’s right, I’m talking to you. You wield your WordPress editor as a valuable tool. You use it to attract new prospects, to build trust with them — word-by-word — so you can… Read More

This week on The Lede … 6 Reasons Why You Should Quit Blogging The Secret Code for Cracking ‘Tough’ Books and Reading Above Your Level The True Cost of Building and Managing a WordPress Website The Bootstrapper’s Bible Why the… Read More

Did you know Copyblogger Media has a WordPress hosting division? Many people don’t, because it’s been a bit under-the-radar. The whole thing started with our frustration with web hosting in general. Specifically, the fact that a lot of “WordPress hosting”… Read More

Is comment spam one of the things that gets you down? Are you taking it personally? Are you confused by comment spam and how to handle it? I’ve been speaking at a variety of meetups lately on web publishing, blogging,… Read More

WordCamp San Francisco 2012 is set for August 4 this year at the Mission Bay Conference Center. A developer hack day is scheduled for August 5th, and a survey looking for the best WordCamp speakers is open for recommendations. I… Read More

Yesterday was the annual May Day protests across the United States. I stumbled upon the Portland, Oregon, May Day protest parade on my way to meet with the panel members for the WordPress Theme Panel at WebVisions 2012. The power… Read More

Webvisions is in Portland, Oregon, May 16-18, 2012, and I’ll be there presenting “Crank WordPress to 11” featuring four top WordPress designers and developers showcasing how they have pushed WordPress beyond traditional limits and taking your questions about how they… Read More

As part of my project to bring WordPress into colleges nationally, I did a quick survey of how many books have been published about WordPress. I was asked by several major publishers to publish the first book in English on… Read More

It’s been almost two years since I got the email. It was late on a Tuesday night. I was drinking something good and wondering how the rent was going to be paid when it came through … “Sonia and I… Read More

In college you learn to abide by AP style, write in neat paragraphs and an academic tone. In the traditional writing format, these rules transferred nicely. However, when it comes to modern mediums, otherwise known as web writing, these rules… Read More

Using the fantastic and flexible Twenty-Eleven WordPress Theme and its showcase template front page and slider? Wish the showcase slider would slide automatically? I’ve found the answer. The Twenty-Eleven WordPress Theme features a pseudo-static front page template called “showcase.” When… Read More

This week on The Lede … The Secrets Behind Content With 10,000+ Shares Why LinkedIn Will Outlive Facebook The 9 Most Creative Marketing Uses of Pinterest The Gory Details of a WordPress Blog Hacking Nightmare How to Create Time When… Read More

In my Prove It! campaign article series recently, by request I ripped apart the personal and professional site of Kym Huynh in “Prove It: Kym Huynh Exposed.” Using my advice, he’s updated the two key pages I attacked on his… Read More

Using some of the stats from my recent article on WordPress Stats, Yoast did some more research and created a new WordPress Stats Infographic to feature the statistical information on WordPress visually. What is most interesting about the new research… Read More

In my WordPress session at Barcamp Portland this past weekend, one of my favorite questions started the discussion: What are the most essential, must-have WordPress Plugins? My answer? None. Okay, not really. My honest answer is one: Akismet. Spam is… Read More

Webvisions is in Portland, Oregon, May 16-18, 2012, and I’ll be there again this year leading an awesome panel of WordPress Theme designers and developers, and I need your help. For over eleven years, Webvisions has been the go to… Read More

Working on developing a core of WordPress classes for Clark College and preparing for the next “Introduction to WordPress” college course in a couple weeks, I’ve put together some statistics on WordPress you might find helpful – and stunning. WordPress… Read More

Writer Nate Cooper hopes to raise $2,500 for a 120-page book entitled Website Bootcamp Adventure Comics. This instructional comic book aims to teach web programming concepts such as HTML, CSS and WordPress Basics in a fun way. The funds will… Read More

Who’s ready to hit the ground running as we start the last week of March? I hope you all have a great Monday. Good luck with the jobs today! Freelance Writing Jobs Content Writing Creative Writers for Content Development (Anywhere)… Read More

You don’t have time to sweat the design details of your website. You shouldn’t spend hours learning to code and maintain a content app, or a separate mobile site. And you certainly don’t want to spend another minute worrying about… Read More

Join Kenny Scudero as he tours the blogosphere April 2 – 20 2012 on a virtual book tour to promote his new humorous fiction book, Comfortably Awkward. Comfortably Awkward is Kenny Scudero’s debut self-published novel. He is a twenty-two… Read More

As the last day of class approaches for the world’s first WordPress College Course at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, and the next one begins in a couple weeks (filling fast), I’d like to share some lessons my students taught… Read More

In 2005, the The Center for Teaching at the University of Iowa created a collection of PDF files to support their Social Media & Technology in the Classroom teaching resources. Among the well thought out documents on using blogs and… Read More

Sucuri, the web security specialists, published “Brute force attacks against WordPress sites,” an in depth look at not just the importance of a strong password but the brute force nature and anatomy of login and registration access attacks. There is… Read More

It’s hard to believe that the first ever full college course on WordPress is coming to an end, with a new one beginning April 10, 2012, but here we are, and time is running out to get your seat in… Read More

It’s been a hectic couple of weeks, friends, and things are only going to speed up, because I’m currently sitting in the San Diego airport, waiting to jet off to the Big Apple for the CUNY conference on sentence processing,… Read More

Everyone loves dogs, right? We have a wonderful interview with Barbara Lampert. She is the author of the dog memoir, Charlie: A Love Story. Enjoy the interview and please check her book out! Barbara Lampert is a Marriage… Read More

This week on The Lede: 30 Dr. Seuss Quotes that Can Change Your Life How to Read 300% Faster in 20 Minutes The Best Way to Pursue Your Life’s Work 4 Simple Ways to Secure (and Maintain) Your WordPress Website… Read More

The following is a list of the confirmed upcoming WordCamps, one of which may be in your area, or you might be lucky to be traveling there just in time to have some WordPress fun with your trip. For updates… Read More