Topic
WordPress
34 published works
Technology and AI
State of the Word 2018
Over the weekend I was in Nashville with over a thousand other WordPress enthusiasts. I met a ton of people, learned a lot, and was able to share the annual…
Technology and AI
Interview on Gutenberg and Future of WordPress
Yesterday I was able to have a great conversation with Adam from WP Crafter, a popular Youtube channel with over five million views. Adam said it was his first interview…
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I Spoke at WordCamp Maine 2018
No kidding, there I was, checking my email, when I saw it: [RESPONSE REQUIRED] You've been selected as a speaker for WordCamp Maine! It's more or less my professional goal to infiltrate…
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The Million Dollar Question: When Will Gutenberg Land in WordPress Core?
This is not a new question. Not for me personally, not for the team at LexBlog, and certainly not for hundreds of thousands of site managers, theme and plugin developers,…
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My Love Hate Relationship With Third-Party Code
There is a long-running discussion at LexBlog about the benefits and perils of third-party solutions. This discussion has been going on for so long that if you look closely enough,…
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A Half-Dozen or so Random WordPress Development Habits I Have Formed
I've been writing WordPress themes and plugins for about a decade and recently I've been putting more effort into curating a personal "boilerplate" folder for new themes and plugins. In…
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How We Update WordPress (and Third-Party Plugins) at LexBlog
At LexBlog, we manage a lot of sites with a small (but mighty!) team. While we carefully introduce new features on a regular basis through a combination of automated and…
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Giving Thanks to My Favorite Plugin: Query Monitor
I often work with exactly one plugin active, other than the plugin I'm working on and its dependencies. That plugin is Query Monitor. QM adds a button to the admin…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
WordPress used for over 60 percent of top-100 Inc. sites
A couple months ago, a marketing consultant to a major law firm pooh-poohed my suggestion on Facebook that he consider WordPress for the law firm's digital publishing needs. He called…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Are you paying to keep your WordPress site up to date?
In an ABA Benchmark Study on Law Firm Website Costs, Legal marketer, Conrad Saam reports that "WordPress has become the de facto website platform for most commercial websites." Saam's right.…