How to Clean a Hacked WordPress Site
You hit Publish on a new blog post on your WordPress site and it won’t post. You are checking out how your site is ranking in Google today and notice your website description has been hijacked by...
View ArticleHow to Insert an Auto Updating Copyright Notice in Thesis
Let’s keep it short and simple on this one. The default Thesis footer is not a no-brainer to edit, especially if you haven’t worked with hooks before. And even if you have figured out how to add a...
View ArticleHow to Add Additional Navigation Menus in Thesis
I’m hoping that with the talked-about-yet-still-forthcoming Thesis 2.0 this feature will be built-in, but as of Thesis 1.8 it is not. So, with that I bring you the code to insert additional menus into...
View ArticleWordCamp Chicago 2011 is a Wrap! WordCamp San Francisco here I come!
It was an amazing experience co-organizing WordCamp Chicago this year. It reinforced my belief that WordPress is the future of the semantic web, and that the WordPress community is amazingly generous...
View ArticleCustom Post Types Presentation Materials for WordCamp Detroit 2011
On November 13, 2011 I gave a presentation on Custom Post Types – What, Why, and How at WordCamp Detoit. Since I had just gone through a slow, but fairly steep learning curve on custom post types...
View ArticleGuster – Here I Go Again – Ravinia 2011
Sara Welker and I went to this show last summer at Ravinia, and this last bit blew me (and the crowd) away! (And, welcome me back to blogging! With all the changes going on with our family, my...
View ArticleStrategy For Making Your New Business Successful
Being the new kid sucks. We’ve all been there. A new school. A new team. A new networking group. It puts us out of our comfort zone and can cause us to not act as our normal selves and not perform at...
View ArticleYou’re Not Crazy. You’re an Entrepreneur.
Growing up we are raised to follow a certain path. Go to primary, middle, and high school. Go to college. Get a job. Get married and have kids. Stay in said job until retirement/kids out of the house....
View ArticleWordPress Health & Effectiveness Checklist
Download Checklist Settings–>General Title & tagline filled in Correct time zone No subscribers (unless necessary for a feature on your site, otherwise you’ll get spam accounts)...
View ArticleSEO for Small Business
This deck was put together for the Lake Villa District Library Small Business Workshop Series.
View ArticleWait for it…
Just wrapping up the WordCamp San Francisco 2014 festivities and got a bug up my butt to turn this blog into a collection of thoughts and learnings on WordPress development and business. Thanks for...
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WordCamp St. Louis 2017 – PreCamp
Today I drove into St. Louie from Chicago. It was a super quick drive and very uneventful (thankfully!). The temp went up by about 20 degrees between Chicago and St. Louis, and my mood improved...
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WordCamp St. Louis 2017 – Day of Camp
Thank you to all of the organizers, volunteers, and sponsors! What a great camp!!! More about this camp: https://2017.stlouis.wordcamp.org/
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May I Always Discuss Ideas
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. — Eleanor Roosevelt
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