I have worked with a lot of different CMS tools in my 10 years of working with computers – Wordpress, Joomla, Sharepoint, and even attempted writing my own CMS tool twice in the past. I have found, in the last 2 years of using Wordpress exclusively that it’s an excellent publishing platform.  As a [...]

I recently started using the Nextgen Gallery on a project I just completed at exquisitecutandfashion.com.  If you haven’t used Nextgen before, it’s an excellent image organizer that let’s you do things like automatic thumbnails, gallery metadata, and more.  Have a look at some samples to get a better idea.
I have come to love Nextgen [...]

I found a neat trick to integrate Cforms with Paypal.  It let’s you take info of any kind on your Wordpress website using a form you design, and then have the buyer forwarded to Paypal for payment completion once they submit the form (which is sent to you via email).  The trick is to use [...]

I’m writing this post for a client I have just started working with in the hopes that it clears up some of the mystery around this topic and perhaps you will also learn a thing or two from my 2+ years of working with Wordpress.
If you spent any time at all with Wordpress, you eventually [...]

Out of the blue, I was contacted today by a local business owner seeking Wordpress theme customization from a theme they purchased on Themeforest (by the way, read about how I was able to provide everything the client wanted in my other blog post)  At first, I thought someone referred them to me, but after [...]

I’m learning a lot about SEO lately and how search engines index content.  One idea I stumbled upon reading about SEO optimization for your blog is the idea of using lots of Categories almost to the point of over-using it.   I’m convinced now that having lots of Categories in your blog is beneficial to both [...]

Get Post Image is a plugin I recently found that let’s you you place an image from a post into your home page to entice visitors to read your post.  I found a trick to OPTIONALLY show an image if it’s found, and not show one if it isn’t.  I used the PHP command “strpos” [...]