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Customize Your WordPress Login Screen With a Logo
Adding a custom logo to your WordPress blog is one of the quickest and easiest ways to personalize your WordPress experience. I use a small code snippet from WP Recipes as the basic means to accomplish...
View Article3 of my most visited tips for WordPress that’s I’ve updated
Sometimes when I’m going through my earlier code samples I want to hit myself, or at the very least go back in time and teach myself how to code WordPress properly. Luckily my blog lets me correct my...
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How to stop comments from appearing in WordPress
There are a few ways to remove comments from appearing in WordPress, depending on your level of expertise. Removing comments from WordPress for beginners The first (and easiest) way to remove comments...
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Are you coming to WordCamp Ottawa?
I’ll be speaking at WordCamp Ottawa on April 27th, let me know if you’ll be there! It’s being held at the University of Ottawa, which is in the downtown of an amazing city. This year, I’ll be talking...
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3 WordPress videos from my own WordCamp events
I’ve had the privilege of speaking at several WordCamp events both here in Canada and the US over the past few years, mostly in Toronto and Montreal but also Detroit in 2011. Here’s a collection of...
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How to remove posted in the uncategorized category of WordPress
Every copy of WordPress comes with a category called Uncategorized which stores all the posts a website writer forgets to categorize. How do you get rid of this category in a quick, efficient manner?...
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Two new WordPress plugins for April
This week I’ve added two new plugins to the WordPress repository. Category Contributors which adds a new Widget to your WordPress website. The Widget lists contributors to the current category while...
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3 more of my favourite WordPress snippets updated!
Every week I try to sit down and update some of my old WordPress functions, to ensure they meet the latest WordPress coding standards and are in keeping with the best practices. If you ever find a...
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Three essential tips for restaurant websites
If you’re thinking of putting together a restaurant website, there are some pretty important things to consider and here are three often forgot things for you to consider: Hours and location Think...
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How much should I charge for a website?
I received an email today from a new designer, wondering what she should charge for a website and thought that I should share my response for other new website designers out there. Here’s her email,...
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A great book about how to price your web design talents
Last week I wrote a small article about how to set your price as a website designer, which discussed the basic model of determining your worth and establishing an hourly rate based on that worth. In a...
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Coding standards, and why they matter.
When I first went to work for Postmedia, I was introduced to the WordPress VIP program and the very first time I submitted a piece of theme code, it came back to me because I hadn’t put the right...
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Forty WordPress plugins to Help Promote a Website
These ten plugins are designed to improve how users can share your content with their friends and promote your website through social marketing and online networks. JetPack includes ShareDaddy to...
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WordCamp Columbus
Assuming they’ll let me into the country, I’ll be speaking at WordCamp Columbus the first weekend in August, and I’ll love for you to be there! I’ll be talking about one of my favourite subjects, how...
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A better way to create WordPress META tags
A couple years ago I wrote a post about creating META tags in WordPress without a plugin, and while I was cleaning out my blog this week I took a look at it and thought I’d share a much better way to...
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21 SEO tips to make your WordPress website a marketing powerhouse
Easy SEO Tip — Validate Your HTML Webpages are filled with code, they’re programmed in HTML and read by computers. If you want to get a great result in search engines, you have to appreciate...
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WordPress video, creating plugins the easy way.
My latest WordCamp talk Creating plugins the easy way from WordCamp Toronto 2012 is now online at WordPress.TV If you’re looking for tutorials on creating WordPress plugins, here are a few I can...
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What is blogging?
I’m sure by now we’ve all heard about blogs, and blogging, about how it can help your business, or make money while staying at home but what exactly is blogging and how can somebody get started at it?...
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How I use 404 Redirect on my WordPress blog to improve my SEO
A few days ago I mentioned that I use a WordPress plugin called 404 Redirect on my blog to help improve my site performance, today I’d like to give you an overview of how (and why) this is important...
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How to check the quality of your website, for free
Are you looking for an easy way to check to see if your website is performing as well as it should? Well you should be, because I can assure you that if I built your competitors website I would be...
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