Don’t Hack Me Bro!

Oh Boy, Matt's sitting in on my WordPress talk.

Secure Your WordPress Blog I was one of about 40 speakers at the recent WordCamp in Atlanta. I was a bit nervous about the talk as I am not a real expert by any means. I’ve used WordPress for several years and I have a decent record as an average user but this camp crowd [...]

WordPress SEO Is The Secret Sauce

WordCamp Presentation on SEO

You Heard It Here Fist. Yesterday I wrote a bit about SEO and talked about listing to the mp3 audio I recorded at WordCamp Atlanta. Today I’m inserting the audio here so that you too may get a little insight into what’s important in creating traffic based on the search engine results. Jenny Munn, an [...]

WordPress.com Is Where You Should Begin

picture the free rent in Mom's basement

WordPress really is giving it away. It’s been a while since I’ve visited my WordPress.com account. Like many I’ve become to infatuated with all the shear horsepower of my WordPress self hosted versions. I’ve been a sort of victim of the glamor and power. It turns out that all that power is a bit exhausting. [...]

WordPress never sleeps.

100 Blog posts aren’t going to be 100% gems Well the day’s been long and eventful, and I haven’t spent any time with my blog project, until now. Writing 100 posts in 100 days isn’t that crazy, but in the real world most of us are going to have a few days when the task [...]

What I Didn’t learn at WordCamp

RSS Feeds

These Pings won’t fit your golf bag Today I was thinking about pinging. If you do not know pinging is a process that notifys the interweb that you’ve posted new content. Ping-o-matic is one awesome ping tool and is another fine product of Automattic, the parents of WordPress. Pinging is one of many aspects of [...]

Is WordCamp A WordPress UnConference?

WordCamp class held at SCAD

No need for labels here. This term unconference basically refers to a peer-to-peer non-marketing learning-rich event of enthusiasts doin’ it for love. Foo Camps, BarCamps and WordCamps have been held all around the world and are increasingly popular. WordCamps started about 5 years ago by WordPress Chief BarBQ Taster, Matt Mullenweg. They are great learning [...]

WordCamp Was A SRO Sell Out Because….

RBarnes interviewing Renee Dobbs, Atlanta WordCamp

WordCamp Is Awesome Value Listen to what these people said about WordCamp. The folks here were simply asked to share their thoughts about WordCamp and This is what they had to say. Last weeks WordCamp here in Atlanta sold out early with about 100 more butts-in-seats than the first one in 2010. WordPress has become [...]

We DO Need The Stinkin’ Badges! WordCamp Rocks It.

WordCamp Atlanta Badge and Guide

WordCamp Badges Are Worthy of Their Own Post. WordCamps are an amazing learning experience and the ideas start hitting you right at the door. Stopping at the registration table each person receives their badge, which in this case is a booklet. The outside cover is personalized with your name and designation [in this case: beginner, [...]

BackUp Your WordPress Blog!

WordPress Backup Plan picture

Hackers can take you down, but you can screw it up too. Practice Safe Blogging! For my presentation at WordCamp Atlanta I talked about security and backups for WordPress. The real key is backing up your work because you can never be 100% safe in the interweb. Backup just makes good sense. As I’ve studied [...]

Soul Brothers Meet Doobie Brothers

WordCamp VIP Party Rocks The process of organizing and running a WordCamp is quite a pain in the butt, but in no time at all you forget that and it becomes a real joy. Once the sessions get started all the frustrations ease and the good times roll. As a bit of a reward, the [...]