WordPress
Ten Things I Learned at WCSF
OR: Zombie Armies, Everyday Heroism, and Being a Proper Viking 1. The use of WordPress as an app framework is on the rise. Apps are where it’s at and WP has become the initial foundation for many of them. That doesn’t change the fact that the internet is still 23.2% WordPress sites. In case you’re…
Moving a Corporate Blog
We’re in the midst of a couple of big projects. One, a new website for a local physician-owned doctor’s consortium, involves moving an established corporate blog from Squarespace into their new WordPress website. The other, for a regional chain of 34 senior care facilities, involves setting up a new corporate blog at an established website.…
WP Plugins for Church Websites
WordPress has some real advantages as a platform for church websites: It’s easy for volunteers to update. WordPress is well-suited to multimedia. Administrators can control security at a very granular level. There are church-specific plugins for WordPress, so we decided to try out a few. Church Pack Church Pack includes simple tools for adding people,…
Trying Out ManageWP
“Trying out” may be the wrong term to use this week, because we’ve been using ManageWP daily for years, so it’s probably not fair to call it a try-out. ManageWP is a paid WordPress tool that allows you to manage one or many WordPress websites from a single dashboard. For us,the top benefit is the…
What’s So Great about Open Source?
We’re WordPress fans for a number of reasons, including the user-friendly interface, the SEO-friendly nature of the CMS, and the efficiency and economy of using plug-ins. But there’s another benefit to WordPress that you might not have thought about: it’s open source. If you hear “open source” and think “free,” you’re missing the best parts.…
A Second Look at RSS Aggregator
A while back we wrote about WP RSS Aggregator. It had a lot of great things going for it, but it didn’t work for us. The creator of the plugin, Jean Galea, reached out and offered not only a request to try it again but also gave us a license to their extensions. The plugin…