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Make the Jump to GIT and IDE`s

January 19, 2013 Rogers Campus, 333 Bloor Street, Toronto Canada A midlevel developer talk aimed at helping developers make the transition from solo programming to team focused programming, also...

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3 more of my favourite WordPress snippets updated!

Every week I try to sit down and update some of my old WordPress functions, to ensure they meet the latest WordPress coding standards and are in keeping with the best practices. If you ever find a...

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Move your WordPress website without accessing the MySQL server

Sometimes the simplicity of WordPress leaves me in amazement, I’ve been migrating WordPress websites for five years at least, but I’d always struggled on how to update the siteurl and home variables...

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How to stop comments from appearing in WordPress

There are a few ways to remove comments from appearing in WordPress, depending on your level of expertise. Removing comments from WordPress for beginners The first (and easiest) way to remove comments...

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Are you coming to WordCamp Ottawa?

I’ll be speaking at WordCamp Ottawa on April 27th, let me know if you’ll be there! It’s being held at the University of Ottawa, which is in the downtown of an amazing city. This year, I’ll be talking...

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3 WordPress videos from my own WordCamp events

I’ve had the privilege of speaking at several WordCamp events both here in Canada and the US over the past few years, mostly in Toronto and Montreal but also Detroit in 2011. Here’s a collection of...

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How to remove posted in the uncategorized category of WordPress

Every copy of WordPress comes with a category called Uncategorized which stores all the posts a website writer forgets to categorize. How do you get rid of this category in a quick, efficient manner?...

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3 of my most visited tips for WordPress that’s I’ve updated

Sometimes when I’m going through my earlier code samples I want to hit myself, or at the very least go back in time and teach myself how to code WordPress properly. Luckily my blog lets me correct my...

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Two new WordPress plugins for April

This week I’ve added two new plugins to the WordPress repository. Category Contributors which adds a new Widget to your WordPress website. The Widget lists contributors to the current category while...

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Three essential tips for restaurant websites

If you’re thinking of putting together a restaurant website, there are some pretty important things to consider and here are three often forgot things for you to consider: Hours and location Think...

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How much should I charge for a website?

I received an email today from a new designer, wondering what she should charge for a website and thought that I should share my response for other new website designers out there. Here’s her email,...

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A great book about how to price your web design talents

Last week I wrote a small article about how to set your price as a website designer, which discussed the basic model of determining your worth and establishing an hourly rate based on that worth. In a...

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Coding standards, and why they matter.

When I first went to work for Postmedia, I was introduced to the WordPress VIP program and the very first time I submitted a piece of theme code, it came back to me because I hadn’t put the right...

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Forty WordPress plugins to Help Promote a Website

These ten plugins are designed to improve how users can share your content with their friends and promote your website through social marketing and online networks. JetPack includes ShareDaddy to...

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WordCamp Columbus

Assuming they’ll let me into the country, I’ll be speaking at WordCamp Columbus the first weekend in August, and I’ll love for you to be there! I’ll be talking about one of my favourite subjects, how...

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A better way to create WordPress META tags

A couple years ago I wrote a post about creating META tags in WordPress without a plugin, and while I was cleaning out my blog this week I took a look at it and thought I’d share a much better way to...

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21 SEO tips to make your WordPress website a marketing powerhouse

Easy SEO Tip — Val­id­ate Your HTML Webpages are filled with code, they’re pro­grammed in HTML and read by com­puters. If you want to get a great res­ult in search engines, you have to appre­ci­ate...

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WordPress video, creating plugins the easy way.

My latest WordCamp talk Creating plugins the easy way from WordCamp Toronto 2012 is now online at WordPress.TV If you’re looking for tutorials on creating WordPress plugins, here are a few I can...

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What is blogging?

I’m sure by now we’ve all heard about blogs, and blogging, about how it can help your business, or make money while staying at home but what exactly is blogging and how can somebody get started at it?...

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How I use 404 Redirect on my WordPress blog to improve my SEO

A few days ago I mentioned that I use a WordPress plugin called 404 Redirect on my blog to help improve my site performance, today I’d like to give you an overview of how (and why) this is important...

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