Upcoming Speaking Gigs

This year I have been extremely lucky to have been a part of some amazing conferences. After organizing WordCamp:Las Vegas in January, I had the pleasure attending two more excellent WordCamp events in Denver and San Francisco. To top it off, the amazing people behind WordCamp:Reno-Tahoe saw fit to invite me out to be a…

Building a plugin

I’ve always thought it would be cool to write my own WordPress plugins. Plenty of times I’ve taken existing plugins and tweaked them here or there to do a slightly modified version of their original intent, but never have I started from scratch and created my own plugin. Until now, that is. Last week I…

What drives your WordPress blog

Today James asked me if I could write a post about what my current favorite WordPress plugins are because he’s redoing his blog and knows that I manage several WordPress installs. So here ya go, James. A list of my current “must have” WordPress plugins, in no particular order: Akismet – If you don’t want to be…

Building return site visitors

It’s been a while since I wrote about any good WordPress tools. I’ve recently found some very worthy plugins that deserve writing about. The plugin I’m going to talk about today is called Subscribe to Comments. At the time of this writing, Subscribe to Comments is currently on version 2.1 and is compatible with WordPress…