Author Archives: Ray Gulick

The Sweet Spot of 3 Bloggers

Guest Post by WordCamp Albuquerque speaker, Melissa J White A teacher, a realtor, and a potter. All 3 have blogs; all 3 have goals and values. But each blogger has a different view on why they blog, and how they … Continue reading The Sweet Spot of 3 Bloggers

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Hide The Keys To The Castle: Tips and Tricks to Harden and Obfuscate Self-Hosted WordPress Sites

Guest post by WordCamp Speaker Robert DeYoung WordPress is a high quality, secure content management system and you’re using it for your castle (er uh…website). Good start! You keep it up-to-date with each new release. Even better! You’re using a … Continue reading Hide The Keys To The Castle: Tips and Tricks to Harden and Obfuscate Self-Hosted WordPress Sites

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Building a Better CMS: Making it Beautiful for the People who Maintain the Website

If you develop WordPress as a CMS, it’s important to think about the needs of CMS users: the people who update the website. What’s important to them? What role does the website play in meeting their goals? Which is more … Continue reading Building a Better CMS: Making it Beautiful for the People who Maintain the Website

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Hooked on Actions

Guest Post by WordCamp Albuquerque speaker Bryce Corkins For any WordPress project, it can seem like there are a dozen methods to accomplish almost everything—and there are! Unfortunately, there are a lot of wrong ways to write your code, and … Continue reading Hooked on Actions

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Using Cloud Applications to Take Your Site From Good To Great

Guest Post by WordCamp Albuquerque Speaker Sean Wells Patience is a virtue. And, unfortunately it’s a virtue that I wasn’t given. Although I consider myself a technical tinkerer, I’d much rather spend my time on developing the content of my … Continue reading Using Cloud Applications to Take Your Site From Good To Great

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Flying High: Making a Living Blogging about Model Airplanes

Guest Post by Albuquerque WordCamp Speaker Carlos Reyes My web pages and videos are now getting about 40,000 views a month. I’m told that this number puts me out of the amateur blogger category and into the “major leagues”, whatever … Continue reading Flying High: Making a Living Blogging about Model Airplanes

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Make Your WordPress Theme Your Very Own

Guest Post by WordCamp Albuquerque Speaker Max Bloom In this workshop, we’ll discuss what defines a WordPress theme and how you can redefine that theme to reflect your own style. We’ll start with the overview – what is a theme, … Continue reading Make Your WordPress Theme Your Very Own

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The Benefits of WordPress-Specific Web Hosting

Guest Post by WordCamp Albuquerque Speaker Jamii Corley Choosing a web hosting provider can be tricky. Price is often a prime consideration, but certainly not the only one. Picking the right hosting provider depends a great deal on the characteristics of … Continue reading The Benefits of WordPress-Specific Web Hosting

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High-Performance Front-End Development

Guest Post by WordCamp Albuquerque Speaker Ben Byrne You could be losing visitors in the blink of an eye. Data from major Internet providers like Google, Amazon and Akamai has shown that how fast a website loads significantly affects user behavior. … Continue reading High-Performance Front-End Development

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WordPress is Just the Beginning

Guest Post by WordCamp Albuquerque Speaker Kimanzi Constable I had been blogging for a little while on Blogger, talking about work  and how we spend our 40 hours a week. I took it a step further and decided to self-publish … Continue reading WordPress is Just the Beginning

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