WordPress News & Tips #2 – Convert Your OSCommerce Store to WordPress

Converting and e store like OSCommerce to WordPress WP E-Commerce is no longer the scary prospect it once was.. In this issue of WordPress News and Tips I give an overview on how to accomplish this task not a detailed step by step. A detailed step by step is too much for a short newsletter. […]
The New WordPress iOS App

I saw the new WordPress iOS app announced as coming when I watched the State of the Word address by Matt Mulenweg. It sounded very exciting and had lots of promise. This post was created using the WordPress iOS app to see what kind of functionality was being offered as improvements over the old one […]
WordPress News & Tips #1

Welcome to the first issue of WordPress news & Tips. This week in WordPress News & Tips I bring you a couple of plugins that can enhance the content on your site. One to showcase snippets of content in a fancy box the other to help you find those links for not only local content […]
State of the Word 2012

This is the state of the Word Address from WordCamp San Fransisco where Matt discusses the past of WordPress and what is coming in the future including some of the great new features that are coming ind WordPress 3.5. This includes some great changes to the media manager plus an all new 2012 theme, a […]
WordPress Visual Editor Missing Button and White Text Issue

How I solved the missing editor buttons and white text in or unable to switch between html and visual editor in WordPress First verify it is an issue with WordPress install and not a caching issue on your machine. Log into your admin area and click on add new post and click the tab for […]
You have a Great WordPress website. So why isn’t up to to date?

It is very important that you keep your WordPress website up to date as recent events have shown again. See these articles: Search WordPress Plugins The Best WordPress Plugin Directory Search Engine Major security vulnerability discovered in popular WordPress plugin 30,000 WordPress Blogs Infected to Distribute Rogue Antivirus Software WARNING: 200,000 US-based WordPress web pages […]
WordCamp Victoria 2012 — Special Episode of WordPress Plugins from A to Z #57

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WordPress 3.2 is here now!!

Well it came almost on cue for what I predicted a couple day early but still just about when I said it would arrive. I get to send this out from the warm wonderful state of Oklahoma. I am down here in Tulsa on some business so if you follow me and you’re from here […]
WordPress 3.1.3 Securty Update Released

WordPress release a new security update today, seems they have hardened up a couple of things and added a new feature to help protect against clickjacking. here is the summary of what was done. Summary Various security hardening by Alexander Concha. Taxonomy query hardening by John Lamansky. Prevent sniffing out user names of non-authors by […]
Why WordPress is Not For You!!!

So after seeing many articles on why WordPress is the greatest thing since sliced bread, I thought I would change it up a bit a do an article on why WordPress is not for you. So why would I someone who teaches people how to use WordPress and advocate it use in just about every […]
Think Before You Leap! Is WordPress.com For Your Business??

WordPress is my choice for a webhosting platform for both business and personal sites. I love its easy use and flexibility. The problem occurs when people confuse WordPress.com with WordPress.org they are the same but different, like an Oreo cookie pulled apart they are the same but each one has different amounts of frosting on […]
WordPress 3.1 Dropped today

Was a nice snowday here in Victoria, paint the streets white and nothing moves very well here on the wet coast. Well WordPress 3.1 has finally dropped and it looks to be pretty nice although I am not to sure about the new admin bar.You can get it here http://wordpress.org/download/ When I saw it drop […]