Let My Buddy Troy Dean Convince You To Raise Your Rates and Truly Value Yourself and Your Work

At WordCamp Phoenix earlier this year, Troy Dean, of WP Elevation appeared virtually to give an awesome talk on "101 Ways to Elevate Yourself And Demand Higher Fees."

If You Still Haven’t Protected Your Site from Pingback Denial of Service Attacks, Here’s How

A couple of weeks ago a number of sources started reporting on a WordPress security risk involving sites that had pingbacks enabled. If that involves you and you're still unaware of the issue, please check out this post from WP Tavern.

Drag and Drop Images Directly Into Posts with WordPress 3.9

When WordPress added drag and drop uploads it created such a smoother UX for working with images. Now they're taking it a step further and letting you drag and drop images directly into your posts, where you can resize and edit them inline with all your content. Things just keep getting better and better!

Let Alex Vasquez Help You Decide Whether to Use a WordPress Framework, Parent Theme or Starter Theme

I wasn't able to WordCamp Orange County in 2013, but if I had, I would have enjoyed checking out this cool talk in person. The presenter, Alex Vasquez, does a good job explaining the differences and similarities between frameworks, parent/child themes, and starter themes. His slide deck has some awesome illustrations.

If You Need Help Setting Up the SEO from Yoast Plugin, Check Out This Resource

Once again the folks from Tutsplus (formely WP Tuts) deliver. Ahmad Awais did a little series for them on setting up and using the awesome SEO plugin from Yoast: Configuration Social Settings Final Tweaking On Page SEO We'll have a course on Treehouse soon that covers all this, plus hopefully a little guest appearance from Yoast … Continue reading If You Need Help Setting Up the SEO from Yoast Plugin, Check Out This Resource →

If You Haven’t Seen Brad Williams Speak in Person on WordPress Security, Watch This!

Brad Williams has long been considered a leading person on WordPress security. I've had the opportunity to see him speak a number of times and if you haven't, I would really suggest you check out one his latest talks from WordCamp Phoenix. I will be doing an upcoming course on WordPress security for Treehouse and … Continue reading If You Haven’t Seen Brad Williams Speak in Person on WordPress Security, Watch This! →

Yay! I’m Speaking at WordCamp Austin 2014

I just found out this week that I'll be speaking at the wonderful WordCamp Austin, April 26 & 27. The talk is titled, "The Ins and Outs of The Template Hierarchy" and it will cover all of the major template files as well as common and helpful template tags used in those files. Austin is … Continue reading Yay! I’m Speaking at WordCamp Austin 2014 →

Digging WordCamp Chicago’s Time Release Sign Up Navigation

For some reason, WordCamp Chicago is on the top of my list of WordCamps currently announced that I'm pumped to go to. I haven't been to the city before, folks say it's awesome, I know a number of cool folks up there, and in general just have a good feeling about it. To add to … Continue reading Digging WordCamp Chicago’s Time Release Sign Up Navigation →

How to Change the Length of Excerpts in WordPress

Simple little function here for the next time you need to control how many characters the_excerpt tag shows. function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) { return 20; } add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 ); Just add the code above into the functions.php file. You can read more about this on the Codex.