New Plugin: Wheel-o-Meals

Meals

During a call with a potential client this week, I realized his WordPress-based project was going to need a custom post type with a few custom taxonomies attached. While I have already worked on several projects with custom post types, amazingly enough, I haven’t had to work with custom taxonomies yet. So it was time [...]

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Please stop using ‘Uncategorized’

rename-category

You spend time building your site. You spend time researching your topic. You spend time writing your post. Then, you get lazy… Instead of adding your post to a specific category, you just leave it on the default and it shows up as “Uncategorized.” Ugh. It may just be me, but I find that really [...]

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10 business blogging tips

Earlier today I took part in a panel discussion at an IABCLV (International Association of Business Communicators/Las Vegas) luncheon. My portion of the presentation was focused on blogging for your business. After the event I was asked if my list of tips would be available online. Hey now, that’s not a bad idea! I wanted [...]

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WordCamp Phoenix 2011 recap

Ice Sculpture

A little more than a year ago I had the opportunity to speak at WordCamp Phoenix. That turned in to one crazy weekend as I ended up speaking at WordCamp New York that same weekend. I was really bummed not to have been able to stick around in Phoenix longer as the event was HUGE! [...]

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Centralized mail/calendar with Google Apps

MX Entry

Warning: Sometimes I use my blog as a way to remember how I did something so that I can do it again in the future should the need arise. Since I’ve spent time trying to round all this up more than once now, I figure this was a perfect subject for just such a post. [...]

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2 Jing features I’d love to have

jing-screen

I have been a big fan of the screen cap software Jing for a while now. I first wrote about it back in 2007 and have been a pretty loyal user ever since. But recently I have been using the software even more than usual. I’ve been using it to make quick walk-through videos for [...]

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