Contact Form 7 for WordPress Tutorial

Feb 28

There are a few “forms” plugins available for WordPress. This short tutorial is on one of my favorite, Contact Form 7, and the database plugin which extends it. Contact Form 7 may be downloaded from the administration plugin panel or from the WordPress library. The database extension for Contact Form 7 may be downloaded from the WordPress plugin library...

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Finally! WordPress 3.1 is here

Feb 23

We’ve been playing with it. As developers we’ve checked our themes, plugins and widgets. We’ve talked about it in the WP develoepr community. We’ve seen things we really liked and saluted. We’ve seen things we didn’t like and submitted them for changes … and finally, after months of hard effort – WordPress 3.1 is...

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Email abuse! How do you manage your inbox?

Feb 21

No, I did not see your email A few weeks ago I received an important email from a connection of mine. They had asked me to contact a prospect, a small business needing a website that “does stuff”. The email message included the important note that the owners were anxious, had already done some shopping and had their budget ready and available. It was the...

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WordPress – the website you can update yourself

Feb 20

Repeat after me, “WordPress is NOT a blog!” Back between 1995 and about 2000 one of the most costly website jobs to program was a dynamic and interactive website the user could update and maintain on their own. During that period I was able to create some pretty amazing sites, or extensions to sites, for companies like Loomis&Fargo, Shari’s...

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How to Change Themes in WordPress

Feb 14

Making your entire website look completely different has never been easier. Unless, of course, you have hire me to do so for you. Here is the 1-2-3 look at changing themes in your WordPress website. This applies to either WordPress.com or WordPress.org (self-hosted) sites and uses the Themes link inside of the Administrator’s Control Panel (Admin Panel). Log in...

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