WordPress

  • WordPress Tags and Categories

    WordPress Tags and Categories

    Your WordPress tags and categories have a lot of potential. Here’s a beginner’s guide to these powerful tools. WordPress tags and categories Both tags and categories are tools for sorting and identifying pages and posts. Both are below the Publish tools in the WordPress editor. If you have a blogger (and you should), you may…

  • The Gutenberg Update

    The Gutenberg Update

    The editor in WordPress will soon change completely. The Gutenberg Update, which is the name of this change, is taking longer than expected, but is currently planned for sometime this year. This is the biggest change at WordPress in years. It’s important that you know about it if you create posts even occasionally, since the…

  • RSS Feed Plugins: What Can Go Wrong

    RSS Feed Plugins: What Can Go Wrong

    Bringing your blog to the homepage of your WordPress site — even if your blog is offsite — is easy to do. When we build a website, we usually include a blog feed on the homepage as part of the custom theme, and your theme might do this, too. Here’s how the blog you’re reading…

  • Adweek’s Attack on WordPress

    Adweek’s Attack on WordPress

    Adweek recently published what comes down to an attack on WordPress, and I was quoted in that attack. As Rebecca Haden of Haden Interactive explains, “If you use WordPress, you may have a software platform built by one team, a theme built by someone else, and a bunch of plugins and extensions built by other…

  • 10 Takeaways from WordCamp Omaha

    10 Takeaways from WordCamp Omaha

    WordCamp Omaha 2017 was well organized, enjoyable, and fun. I always learn things at WordCamp, and Omaha was no exception. Here are 10 things you might not already know: Dusty Davidson reminded us that WordPress now powers 28% of the internet.  You might know that already, but did you know that the next most popular…

  • Using Tags in WordPress

    Using Tags in WordPress

    WordPress tags show up at the bottom of the posts on your WordPress website, typically. The way they look will depend on your theme, but we’ve never built or seen a theme that doesn’t allow you to use tags. You can add them when you write your post, and they will provide your readers with…