Eric Barker, Cory Miller, and I were recently interviewed by 435 Digital, Tribune’s online marketing division, about why businesses should use WordPress. The consensus? Its free, its flexible, its SEO-friendly — all while being easy to use, update and customize.
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A friend of mine, and fellow Florida Creative, Lawrence Salberg, created this video screencast showing you how to install your own WordPress blog. He does a good job explaining the difference between WordPress.com and the Self-Hosted software available at WordPress.org, and then gets into the nitty gritty of getting the software up and running quickly. Enjoy!
Video after the jump…
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You’re a smart and handsome developer and as such you utilize a source control solution in your work. Your work focuses on the excellent Drupal platform, and as such you have multiple Drupal sites that you manage for yourself as well as your clients. Storing each site in its own repository is good, but storing your commonly used modules in a central repository and pulling them into each site via svn:externals is better. This talk will show you how.
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This morning I checked in the initial version of a new plugin: In The Loop. This one generated from a request I got from a user of another plugin of mine, K2 Hook Up. Since the K2 Hooks don’t extend into ‘The Loop’ the part of the WordPress theme that loops over all the posts to display your blog entries, he still couldn’t fully liberate his theme from all of his modifications.
So in between bites of left-over turkey and pie, I coded up this solution over the long Thanksgiving weekend and released it this morning.
You gotta love the GPL.
All of the code I release is done so under the GPLv3 license, including my WordPress plugins. Because of this, my K2 Hook Up plugin inspired a very similar plugin for the premium theme, Thesis. This is why I love open source. I’m free to copy and paste and tinker and hack. So when I’m fortunate to offer up my own code for others to use, its a great feeling to have it in turn inspire another’s tinkering.
But its an even better feeling to receive a very nice complement on your contributions:
I’m very grateful for your plugin, Eric! Seems like whenever I try to do admin panel stuff, it’s so complex, leading to surrender on my part. Your plugin was very well written — elegant in its simplicity, as they say — and helped me learn some stuff! – Rick Beckman
Its interactions like this that really do make it all worthwhile.
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