The past week’s news about the closure of Google Reader hit really close to home. I follow hundreds of blogs, news sites, tutorial sites, and other sites that I would probably never remember to visit if I did not subscribe to their RSS feed through Google Reader. In fact, if I did have to visit each site to check on the latest information it would probably waste my entire day. Google Reader entered my life…
Amazon, that towering behemoth of a retail giant, answers to no one. Their power, reach, and breadth of products are astounding when you consider that it all started in one guy’s garage. If you need something you can probably find it on Amazon. For example: If you need some Smack My Ass and Call Me Sally Green Jalapeno Hot Sauce… Amazon has it. If you were having an argument with your friend and wanted to…
You might be thinking to yourself, this guy is trying to sell some type of miracle snake-oil potion. How could it be so easy to speed up your WordPress site? The truth of the matter is that most of the time we don’t take advantage of many of the resources available to us. Most WordPress users are delivering uncompressed content to visitors of their sites. But did you know you can serve most of this…
If you are anything like me or have a client who is like me, this code will help you tremendously. If you ever forget to set a the featured image (post thumbnail) in your WordPress post, this code will automatically grab the first image in your post and set it as your featured image. You can simply drop this code into your active theme’s functions.php file and you are all set. Now your clients don’t…
Sometimes when I’m creating a post or a page in WordPress, I want to do something specific with CSS. And I really don’t want to jump back and forth with Coda, my editor. So, I decided to use this little piece of code to create a Custom CSS Meta Box appear right under my WordPress post/page editor that would allow me to type my CSS selectors and declarations right on the post/page. Now, the CSS…
The moment you start digging the tiniest bit under the surface of WordPress in your attempt to either tweak your website or create a theme or plugin, you will come face-to-face with WordPress action hooks. The common question among people who are going deeper with WordPress is what are action hooks and how do I use them? So this post will answer those two questions, plus give you a boost up in your WordPress development…
Every year around this time I reflect over the past year, and consider the people, products, and events that shape the direction I took over the past year. This is the first of three posts. This first post is focused on WordPress (the CMS platform) since a lot of my work revolves around this awesome software. The second post deals with my personal growth over the past year, and this year will focus heavily on…
I’ve been using Twitter for more than five years. It is amazing how much has changed… both in perception of the service as well as usage of service. And while the fail whale is still a dreaded sight it has become ingrained into our vocabulary. Twitter has done an amazing job of not only changing the way we communicate, but also changing the way we relate to one another. Let’s step back in time and…
Google+ is a not only a great social network, but its a great way to advance your social sharing objectives for your website. When someone shares your site or your post using the “+1″ button, it not only shares the link, but it will continue to “share” the link on Google search results. Many times this alone will assist in the decision making process of whether someone clicks on a search result or not. And…
How many of you have had the issue of writing a great post about an amazing topic. It is so amazing that everyone who reads your post wants to share it with all of their friends. So everyone runs over to Facebook or Digg or Google Plus or (insert name of latest social sharing craze) and when they enter your post url, the default image that pops up is the image of one of your…
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