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Creating My Own Post Formats

I fell in love with post formats when WordPress 3.6 beta came out. I liked how I could showcase different content in interesting ways. Since that kind of fell through, I started to see the issues that post formats create. Like how they add additional fields that themes don’t know about. Even the posts I created in […]

Now With More Mobile Friendliness

Check me out on a phone because I look good. I’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting for WordPress 3.6. When it arrived I was going to switch to a modified version of TwentyThirteen and have all the responsive goodness. But, it seems like WordPress 3.6 is taking longer than expected, so I just tweaked some CSS […]

Cats. Bacon. Zombies! – CBZ Auto Create Posts WordPress Plugin

It’s been 6 years since I released a WordPress plugin so it’s about time. My new one even includes cats, bacon and zombies! Introducing the CBZ Auto Create Posts WordPress Plugin. As a WordPress developer, I often setup new sites and have to create dummy posts so that I have something to develop and test with. […]

Secure Your WordPress Site with 3 Simple Changes

If a site asks you to login, then someone will try to hack it. WordPress is no exception. The good news is it’s really simple to make your site even more secure. 1. Strong Passwords This should be a no brainer, but people continue to use simple passwords. I’ve seen major companies using horribly easy to guess […]

2013 Overnight Website Challenge Winner – Urban Boatbuilders

Congratulations to Urban Boatbuilders for winning 3 out of 5 Overnight Website Challenge awards including Best in Show! I was lucky enough to be on the team Go Ahead, Caller which built the Urban Boatbuilders website. We had a great group of people and a well prepared, flexible non-profit. We all worked very well together and are very […]

Who’s ready to stay up all night and make websites?!

It’s that time of year again; time for the Overnight Website Challenge. That’s where we stay up all night to build an awesome website for a non-profit. This will be my second year participating. After last year’s website challenge, I told myself that it was fun, but I was not doing that again. Then someone […]

New Google Image Search kills my traffic.

I have more than a few sites and some of them are very image heavy. With the old Google Image Search, I was able to break users out of Google and send them to my sites. This increased their chances of seeing my site, my other content, and my ads. However, with the latest Google […]

Props to Microsoft for making a sweet Internet Explorer Ad

Microsoft seems to have hired a good advertising company for Internet Explorer. The recent ads have been pretty good and their recent ad is kinda awesome. How do you reach your target audience? Well with sweet 90s references of course. Sadly, after this pretty sweet ad, I remember than IE for Mac died in 2003. Oh […]