Yesterday, a blog post started making the rounds in the WordPress community with an incendiary headline. “WordPress Bans Developers from Using WP in Plugin Names” First, the news was mostly fake and I am not here to really discuss what has been better discussed elsewhere. Second, the response was a lot of people quickly freaking…
It’s easy to forget that your users may have never done this before. This morning I reported for jury duty to my local small town courthouse. As I left the house I remarked to my wife that I was intrigued by the prospect of experiencing first-hand something I’d only seen in overly dramatized TV shows,…
Over the weekend I updated Better Click To Tweet to a new version, and both premium add-ons got that glossy coat of paint to match. Since the beginning, it’s always been my training ground as I’ve learned to support a product, sell a premium product, learned to product manage a product (I outsourced much of…
I might get some flack for this: but I think most SEO experts are con artists. Sure, there’s room for legitimate folks who study Google (and other) algorithms. Some of them are extremely knowledgeable, and do great work. But there is a serious undercurrent of snake-oil salesmen and half-baked “consultants” in the field. Here’s my…
Blogger.com is like your rich and slightly neurotic girlfriend Julie’s house: Great for visits, bad place to live. When you live there, at first it’s a storybook! She pays for everything, lets you live there rent free, makes it easy for you to do what you want, and you can just keep adding stuff to…
Based on my experience since becoming a web developer, I’m glad I don’t work in television, because I’d never enjoy shows the same way. Last week I went online to purchase a ticket to a local sporting event, and was greeted with the bright red text “Please refrain from using any special characters in your…
Still Processing how great WordCamp Raleigh 2015 was for my first time pseudo-organizing and helping out. You can expect a post about that soon. But here’s a bit of a rant that I drafted before the conference. I see too many DIY WordPress folks trying to do these four things: learn enough code to make…