WordPress

Notes from the shop — process, tools, and the occasional opinion.
March 16, 2012

Goodbye Posterous – Hello Self Hosted

Posterous, the free hosted blogging platform was recently acquired by Twitter (see the Posterous announcement here), and while they say the service will continue…
February 6, 2012

Stay Organized with a Note Taking App

I've never been much of a Post-It note type, but I have gone through many Moleskine notebooks to jot down notes and ideas. And…
November 22, 2011

Text only StumbleUpon Stumble Link

After adding a text-based Facebook link to the site, it's seemed a sensible idea to add a similar text-only link for StumbleUpon. For WordPress,…
November 18, 2011

WordPress SEO, A Pre-Launch Checklist

[wpvideo 4ZB2FYEh w=620 h=360] I missed Mike Payne's WordPress SEO, A Comprehensive Pre-Launch Checklist presentation at this years WordCamp Salt Lake City, but thankfully…
November 10, 2011

Widget Logic is_active_sidebar fix

Dec 29, 2011 Update - Installing Widget Logic version 0.51 fixes the previous is_active_sidebar issue. Thanks to Alan Trewartha for continued development on this…
September 21, 2011

Disable WordPress Parent Menu Link

If you've ever wanted a top-level navigation item to act as a trigger for a drop down menu, but not actually link anywhere, here's…
March 28, 2011

The Admin Bar and Absolute Positioning

The latest release of WordPress (3.1) comes with a new 'Admin Bar' - a small area at the top of your site that displays…
March 19, 2011

WordPress Users: Install Jetpack

Since it first came out I've been installing the WordPress.com Stats plugin on nearly every site I build. It's a very popular plugin because…
March 17, 2011

Now with HTML5

It wasn't that long ago since our last major site rebuild, and yet here we are at it again. This time it's both a…
November 29, 2010

Rebuilding Spigot (again)

For the last year and a half Spigot has been building client sites exclusively on WordPress, which has proved to be an ideal choice…