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SMCSLC WordPress 3.0 Presentation Slides

Here are the slides I used in my WordPress 3.0 presentation last night for the Social Media Club of Salt Lake City (SMCSLC). It was a great event, the audience was great, the other presenters (Dan Garfield @todaywasawesome) and panelists (Jake Spurlock @whyisjake) were awesome. It was a good WordPress night. Thanks to Darin ‘Doc’ Berntson (@igobydoc) [...]

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BuddyPress And The Missing Admin Bar: Solved!

I’ve been working on a few BuddyPress projects lately, using custom themes. Actually, I’ve used a great new plug-in, BuddyPress Template Pack by Andy Peatling to help with custom themes. While this great plug-in got me down the road (it basically turns your existing theme into a BuddyPress compatible theme), there were a few [...]

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Looks Like Fancy Commenting Systems Don’t Rule

Over the past week I have been running a poll asking what WordPress commenting systems people like. The options were Disqus, IntenseDebate, Native – built in, or None. Here is how it broke down: 59% of respondents preferred native commenting to a third party system. 25% of respondents preferred Disqus. 16% of respondents preferred IntenseDebate. These are completely un-scientific [...]

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WordPress Releases New iPhone App

This post is really a test using the new WordPress iPhone App, http://iphone.wordpress.org, version 2.1. I really want to test the picture upload feature. You do have the ability to manage comments, but if you use a comment plugin system like Disqus, you can’t moderate those comments. I do like that you can create pages with this [...]

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Two Impressive Ecommerce Plug-ins For WordPress

I’m asked frequently what ecommerce plug-ins I have used and recommend for WordPress. There are several options, but two stand out. WP e-Commerce Plug-in For WordPress WP e-Commerce is a free plug-in and can be installed right from the plug-in section of your hosted WordPress admin tool. There are several modules for this product including drop shipping, [...]

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