30 Days of Wordpress

What WordPress Problem Do You Have?

August 12, 2010

Today marks the launch of a refined and updated WordPress Consulting Service specially tailored to quickly and painlessly answer your questions.  You can see more about that service here. I’ve been doing phone consults with folks for a couple of years now, and have figured out what most people want is really down to earth [...]

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What is a Child Theme in WordPress?

July 15, 2010

As part of our 30 Days of WordPress Par-Tay, we are moving right along to the next question by Christina.  Christina’s question about Child Themes is a great one, specifically with the recent flare-up of interest in proprietary themes in the WordPress Community. Christina asks: Some premium WordPress themes use child themes, and some just seem to [...]

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How to Use WordPress for an eCommerce Store

July 6, 2010

Next up in our 30 Days of WordPress world series, we have Kai asking about using WordPress for an ecommerce store. Kai’s Question I’m curious about using WordPress as an e-commerce store. Are there e-commerce plugins out there other than WP e-Commerce? Outside of SEO and analytics, what areas do you recommend focusing on for [...]

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How to Customize Your WordPress Installation Package

July 2, 2010

For the 3rd answer in my 30 Days of WordPress extravaganza, we are taking a look at Robert’s question about customizing your WordPress installation package at the time of installation. Robert Asks How can I customize the blogs created by WordPress 3.0 so that when they install they have the theme, plugins and settings all [...]

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How to Speed Up Your WordPress Site

July 1, 2010

Wondering how to speed up your WordPress-powered website?  As part of our 30 Days of WordPress fiesta, we are taking a look at Somone’s question about how to speed up her site. From Somone: Once a self-hosted WordPress site gets a decent amount of traffic, the use of plugins and other scripts that run to [...]

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Using WordPress for a Password-Protected Membership Site

June 30, 2010

As the kick-off question for my 30 Days of WordPress Questions, Christina asked a couple of questions.  One of them jumped out at me right away and that’s the question I’ll be answering first. Christina Asked: I’ve stayed away from WordPress because in the past, the CMS didn’t seem to measure up to corporate or [...]

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