WordPress
10 Things I Learned at WordCamp KC 2016
WordCamp is always a pleasure, and WordCamp KC has a special place in my heart since we’ve been sponsoring, speaking, and organizing there from the start. This year, Josepha and I went to make friends and learn things, and I learned a lot. I also made some new friends, including Angie Pedersen, whom you see…
Why You Don’t Want a DIY Website
I’m speaking at WordCamp Kansas City today, and looking forward to it. Unusually for me, I’m doing a presentation for beginners: “The Care and Feeding of Your New WordPress Website.” The presentation was inspired by a very enjoyable project I did earlier this year with an intrepid nonprofit creating a DIY website (with a little…
Finding Just-Right Plugins
I met with a client recently to troubleshoot her ecommerce website. We quickly made certain that she still likes the look, that her traffic is good — up 41% compared with the old website — and that organic search is in fact bringing most of her traffic. We walked through a few checkout scenarios and…
WordPress Widgets
Widgets allow WordPress users a lot of freedom. Rather than having to set up a separate page to hold information and direct visitors to it, you can add information and functionality to pages by putting a widget in place. This post will explain the basics of widgets so that you can add widgets to your…
Content in a Website Redesign
5 Content Questions to Ask when You Change Your Design When you redesign a traditional website, you typically have to start from the beginning. You can copy and paste your words into a document and use them again, but you’re building your website from scratch, so this can be a big effort. Right now, we’re…
Trying Out the Add This Popup
We all hate popups, right? Gideon actually went out of his way to tell me how much he dislikes the pop-up we added here at Haden Interactive. But I’ve been testing the Add This popup with a friendly invitation to sign up for our newsletter. Because we may dislike popups, but they work. We often…