Freelance WordPress Developer
Download Checklist Settings–>General Title & tagline filled in Correct time zone No subscribers (unless necessary for a feature on your site, otherwise you’ll get spam accounts) Settings–>Writing Remote publishing NOT enabled unless you know you need it Settings–>Privacy Ensure your site IS visible to search engines Settings–>Permalinks Set to “Post name” unless you run a [...]
Growing up we are raised to follow a certain path. Go to primary, middle, and high school. Go to college. Get a job. Get married and have kids. Stay in said job until retirement/kids out of the house. Retire. Die. I was on this path. Until I wasn’t anymore. And I felt a bit crazy [...]
There’s a major cleanup effort going on at the Heather Acton HQ right now, so thank you for your patience! I’m working on current content and a new theme for this site, but it takes time to craft these things. And even more so when it’s your own thing! I’m going back to basics over [...]
Being the new kid sucks. We’ve all been there. A new school. A new team. A new networking group. It puts us out of our comfort zone and can cause us to not act as our normal selves and not perform at our best. Being a new business is no different. It’s uncomfortable and intimidating, [...]
Sara Welker and I went to this show last summer at Ravinia, and this last bit blew me (and the crowd) away! (And, welcome me back to blogging! With all the changes going on with our family, my business, etc., I think this may become my happy place. Stay tuned!)
On November 13, 2011 I gave a presentation on Custom Post Types – What, Why, and How at WordCamp Detoit. Since I had just gone through a slow, but fairly steep learning curve on custom post types myself, I wanted to give others a leg up and share some of the best resources I found [...]
It was an amazing experience co-organizing WordCamp Chicago this year. It reinforced my belief that WordPress is the future of the semantic web, and that the WordPress community is amazingly generous and supportive. Huge thanks to the lead organizer Mary Duquaine for taking the bumps and the bruises that led to an event more successful [...]
Let’s keep it short and simple on this one. The default Thesis footer is not a no-brainer to edit, especially if you haven’t worked with hooks before. And even if you have figured out how to add a custom footer using hooks, using the appropriate code so that your copyright date auto-updates is imperative, assuming [...]
You hit Publish on a new blog post on your WordPress site and it won’t post. You are checking out how your site is ranking in Google today and notice your website description has been hijacked by Viagra salespeople. You type in the address to your site and your site doesn’t load… You’ve been hacked! [...]
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