WordPress

Selling My First Business (Dev7studios.com)

Last week I sold my first business. It’s not the first project I’ve sold, but it’s…

I’ve recently been looking at the kind of functions that I regularly see in WordPress theme’s functions.php file. Here are some of the ones that I would recommend you include in your WordPress functions.php file:

WordPress 3.0 looms on the horizon with loads of great new features including custom navigation menus, custom header and background management, proper support for custom post types and taxonomies, multi-site feature (WPMU), custom author profiles, I could go on…

According to this post WordPress does not include description and keyword meta tags by default. Their reasoning for this is simple: the information is unique to your site and should therefore be included by yourself.

There is a conversation going on over of Forrst about saying “WordPress as a CMS”. Inevitably the conversation has come down to a debate over the definition of a “CMS”. My thoughts are this:

WordPress was a blogging engine, it is now a publishing platform. It’s not a…

Last may I decided to try Tumblr and have a go at hosted blogging. While it was a nice experience (it lasted almost a year after all) a few things bugged me, including the infamous Tumblr down time, lack of customization options and a lack of theme documentation.

Recently I moved this blog from an old URL to a new URL. Part of the complication of doing this is there are several places in the WordPress database where URL’s are stored. This means that when you move to a new domain the database still has all of the old URL’s…