Elevate SEO
A couple months back, I signed up to be a beta tester for a new WordPress Plugin being developed by a friend of mine. I’ve been a blogger for a decade and I even teach this stuff. All of my […]
Understanding Analytics #2: WordPress Site Stats and Jetpack
Welcome to the second part of my series on how to understand and interpret analytics. Last week, we checked out the granddaddy of all analytics, Google. Today, we’re going to focus on analytics for bloggers, specifically bloggers who use WordPress. […]
WordPress Plugins to Increase Your Blog Subscriptions
I just finished teaching a class on blogging, and one really important thing you want to do after you’ve started your blog is to get some subscribers. Because of the nature of your blog, meaning that it’s a website, open […]
“Must Have” WordPress Plugins
I‘ve been blogging for 6 years, now, and most of that time has been on a self-hosted WordPress blog. Part of the reason I love WordPress so much is the huge variety of third-party WP plugins that exist. If you […]
So, You Wanna Be a Blogger?
Really exciting news! I’ve now been teaching at BCIT for three years. I started with just one course, and now I’m teaching three. But I love teaching, and I thought it might be fun to see what else the market […]
How to Optimize Your Images In WordPress
I can’t really emphasize enough how important it is to include an image in every blog post you write. Not only does it break up your text and add a interesting visual that is attractive, but it also increases your […]
My New Fave WP Plugin: Click to Tweet
Here’s my social media philosophy: make it stupid easy. If you want people to respond positively to your calls to action, you need to make it easy for them to do so. Click To Tweet By that I mean, if […]
Happy Birthday, WordPress!
Last monday night, I joined a big crowd of fellow WordPress enthusiasts at The Elephant and Castle in downtown Vancouver to celebrate WordPress’ 10th Anniversary. It was the local chapter of an international celebration. I’ve been using WordPress for almost […]
A Web Designer’s Top 8 WordPress Plugins
Guest Post by C. Mairin Deery As a web designer and developer that works with a lot of small and non-profit/not-for-profit projects, I learned quickly that WordPress was the best platform out there. There’s a plugin for practically everything, and the […]
Creating an RSS feed for Hashtags
Despite RSS feeds seeming to be harder and harder to find these days, they still are really, all kinds of awesome. And here’s a good example of how they are awesome. Let’s say there’s a hashtag you follow on Twitter. […]