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I was resistant to WP Rocket but they’ve proven I’ve been wasting time!

I have always disliked cache. It wreaks havoc on designs and content and I feel like I need the phrase “clear your cache” tattooed on my head. But because of speed and Google and SEO, sometimes you gotta dance with the devil. I started out using WP Super Cache because it’s what was created by…

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Better Work-Flow

My clients, Jeff and Simone Goertzen of Orange County Beach Weddings, came to me with a crazy complex way of adding items to their site. In order to get this great looking archive of weddings: They had to first write all the html to display it! They had to do this for the gallery list…

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My Lesson Plan is Up

https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/theme-school/local-install/ Tada! I am a writer teacher, too! When I was attending WCNEO I ran into Beth Soderberg and she told me she had already used it in the wild. It’s so funny how excited you get when people actually read what you write. No matter if it’s fiction or not.

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WCUS 2015

I attended the first all US and the largest WordCamp last weekend. It was awesome. I really learned a lot, and I was inspired. First of all, Philly is a cool town. There is a great market, Reading Terminal Market, down the street from the convention center that has a little bit of everything. I found…

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List pods objects by taxonomy

I have been using Pods for a while now and try to take advantage of the templates included with Pods as much as possible. Once in a while, though, I need to code to get my desired result. Recently, I needed to order and list my pods items by taxonomy. I had a pod, Documents, and…

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Site Redesign using Genesis

It’s about time! I use this site to test all kinds of plugins on the fly, so I am always changing themes and configurations. I decided to be a grown up for a little while and get a chic and elegant look, with a little help from the Genesis toolbox. This is a version of…

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Some really great feedback from my clients!

I was delighted to receive such great comments from my clients when asking for references. I mean Wow! I enjoy so much making things work for people and enjoy getting recognized, too! Christina is outstanding to work with.  Her technical competency was first rate.  Our website is quite complex, and real estate was a new…

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Almost done with my first WP eCommerce site

And it’s looking GOOD! I am really excited about this site. It has a wonderful landing page that makes it very easy to get to any part of the site and uses great imagary that is created at the art studio. We are using the shopping cart,   ecwid, that will also link to Facebook where…

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Mobile Web

I have been interested in mobile computing since I got my first iPhone. I have studied Objective C, created an app, and coded mobile web pages. I think that mobile web isn’t as sophisticated as a mobile app, but it really depends on the content. Look at ‘Plants v Zombies’ certainly an app that wouldn’t…

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When you comment on Facebook, it ends up on the blog!

Thanks to WPBook Lite! It took a while but I have integrated Facebook into my blog page. Go ahead, try it! Leave me a comment or two!

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Love using LESS

I have been using the Roots Theme as the starter in some of my themes and while I can’t really get the “clean permalinks” to work, and wonder why it is so important that people know or not know you are using WordPress, I love using LESS and bootstrap. It’s amazing.  This is the basic…

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Columns in “the Loop”

Found this code on pastebin,  to make your loop/posts float into columns and it works great! Wish I knew who to thank for it, but I can’t find it anymore. I am pretty sure it was from wordpress.org. It requires that you modify your loop in the template you need columns. I used it for…

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Site Complete!

So happy that I made my site a WordPress site. The more I try other CMS, the more I like WordPress. While it isn’t exactly what I wanted, as Shrek would say, “It’ll do, Donkey, it’ll do.” I would like to know what you think!  

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