Category Archives: WordPress

Improving Your WordPress Blog: Five Essential Plugins

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Joe Brockmeier

WordPress is a full-featured and simple to use publishing platform, and it just gets better with each release. But even as good as the standard WordPress release is, you can always make it just a little bit better. In this … Continue reading →

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Integrating WordPress and Twitter

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Joe Brockmeier

Sometimes you just can’t say it in 140 characters. And sometimes, a blog post is just plain overkill. Luckily you can manage your blog and microblog with one interface, at least as long as you’re using WordPress and Twitter Tools. … Continue reading →

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Get Things Done with WordPress

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Joe Brockmeier

Want to get a jump on team productivity in 2010? Check out the GTD theme for WordPress from Templatic. Unlike most WordPress themes, the Templatic theme is designed for private collaboration rather than blogging for all the world to see. … Continue reading →

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Drupal or Django (and WordPress)?

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Joe Brockmeier

Have been meaning to link to this for a while. Scot Hacker looks at Drupal vs. Django and why he prefers Django to Drupal. (With a side of WordPress.) Drupal represents a middle ground between framework and CMS that we’ve … Continue reading →

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WP theme designer switching from CC to GPL

Posted on April 11, 2007 by Joe Brockmeier

“Small Potato” is Switching from Creative Commons to GPL: Despite that I’m just ONE theme designer and despite that I don’t contribute directly the WordPress codes, I believe that switching to GPL is a step in the direction to support … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.1

Posted on February 5, 2007 by Joe Brockmeier

After coming back from Linux.conf.au last week (I stayed in Sydney an extra week for vacation) I noticed that the WordPress folks had released 2.1 while I was busy getting sunburned. I’ve upgraded my blog to 2.1 and all went … Continue reading →

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Statistics with Slimstat

Posted on May 14, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

Want to track how many people are visiting your blog on a daily basis, where they’re coming from, etc? Slimstat looks very promising. Caught a reference to Slimstat on Silentbits, and decided I’d try it out. It took about a … Continue reading →

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