Making Sense of WordPress Plugins

Making Sense of WordPress Plugins

One of the key value points that WordPress offers to its users is a seemingly inexhaustible function library of mini – applications or programming shortcuts.  There is now such a huge supply of plugin extensions that making sense of which WordPress plugins to...
WordCamp San Francisco 2010

WordCamp San Francisco 2010

Wellingtonian Dan Milward and myself got to WordCampSF back on May 1 in San Francisco. There were 750+ people there and for most of the day there were two streams running with more technical sessions downstairs and general – more road-map style sessions...
Choosing a Great WordPress Theme

Choosing a Great WordPress Theme

Helping clients plan to get the best out of their WordPress sites is something that I really enjoy. Having a theme library loaded and switching between them for instant changes to “the look and feel” is a fun moment in the discovery planning process. For...
Video State of WordPress

Video State of WordPress

As one of the organisers for Wordcamp NZ I’m very interested in what happens at other wordcamps around the world. They are community based events organised around WordPress users of all shapes and dimensions globally. Next week I’ll write about WordPress...
Video State of WordPress

WordPress as a Platform

For the past 3.5 years I have been using WordPress to power this blog and also as a content management framework for a whole series of other websites that I develop and/or manage in some way. Ironically I haven’t posted specifically on the WordPress publishing...
Choosing a Great WordPress Theme

Wordcamp Australia 2008

This past weekend I was very pleased to be at the first second* Wordcamp in Australia. There were about 60 people present over a 2 day period to share WordPress related ideas and project experiences in the local area. Among other delights, I was very pleased to hear...