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Goodbye Posterous – Hello Self Hosted

March 16, 2012

Posterous, the free hosted blogging platform was recently acquired by Twitter (see the Posterous announcement here), and while they say the service will continue without disruption, WordPress.com has seen a 250% spike in Posterous imports…

Stay Organized with a Note Taking App

February 6, 2012

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 while I still enjoy pencil and paper for quick brainstorming or…

Text only StumbleUpon Stumble Link

November 22, 2011

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, add the following code in your templates: For other CMS platforms…

WordPress SEO, A Pre-Launch Checklist

November 18, 2011

[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 WordPressTV has posted this and a few other videos from the…

Widget Logic is_active_sidebar fix

November 10, 2011

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 essential plugin. Carry on. WordPress doesn’t currently have a built in…

Disable WordPress Parent Menu Link

September 21, 2011

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 how to do it in the WordPress 3.0 menu system: Insert…

The Admin Bar and Absolute Positioning

March 28, 2011

The latest release of WordPress (3.1) comes with a new ‘Admin Bar’ – a small area at the top of your site that displays (for logged in users) quick links and easy access to some…

WordPress Users: Install Jetpack

March 19, 2011

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 it provides a quick overview of site traffic and related information…

Now with HTML5

March 17, 2011

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 redesign and an overhaul of the underlying structure. Now with HTML5…

Rebuilding Spigot (again)

November 29, 2010

For the last year and a half Spigot has been building client sites exclusively on WordPress, which has proved to be an ideal choice both for us and our clients. It’s powerful, flexible, and best…