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  • WishList Member 2.8 Review

    The WishList Member plugin now has more powerful promotional, management, and integration features than ever. Version 2.8 was recently released and includes several new upgrades that will make member site management easier for you, plus give you exceptional ways to promote your content. I’m particularly excited about two features, which are the new Expiring Member Notifications and the spruced up Pay-Per-Post options.

  • 5 Things a Theme Designer Hates About You

    All site designers belong to a secret club. We talk about our headache site owners. Some of you reading this today are those clients. We don’t call out names in our club, but we do dish the dirt. We have to, otherwise we would run screaming down the street, pulling our hair out. Why? Because you make us crazy. We have a club because misery loves company and we feel better knowing we’re not the only ones with clients that drive us nuts. I’m going to spill the beans and tell you what your designer won’t so you can avoid being that client we talk about.

  • WordPress 3.7 is Available

    WordPress 3.7 contains some of the “most important architectural updates we’ve made to date” according to the post about its release on the WordPress.org website. What’s in 3.7? Besides the three, big highlights of automatic updates, stronger password recommendations, and localized versions for non-English languages, the developers closed over 400 Trac tickets. These were nagging bug and feature fixes, some of which had been lingering since before version 3.6.

  • WordPress SEO Plugin Removes Stop Words from Permalinks

    The WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast has a new setting that was turned on by default a couple of updates ago that affects your permalinks. It’s a little thing. But it could have a big impact on your SEO and whether your post gets the click in SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). In this quick video I’ll show you exactly what the change is, how your permalinks will appear, plus a couple of caveats with using this, or any plugin, that removes stop words from permalinks.

  • Help Track the Google Embedded Post

    Can a G+ post have a life of it’s own? Looks that way. On September 10, 2013 I embedded a Google Drive Deck into a blog post and then posted about it on G+. It went crazy. The volume of shares and comments made it nearly impossible to keep up with where folks were seeing and commenting on it. That’s the purpose of this post. And you are invited to play!