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Reflections on Twenty Years of Blogging
A series of reflections on how this blog has evolved over years coinciding with my personal and professional evolution.
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Blogging in the Enterprise
Most companies dismiss blogging as unproductive. They’re wrong. Employee blogs are one of the most powerful knowledge management tools available.
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Better SEO Titles in WordPress 2.5
A bane of WordPress development for a long time were the awful titles generated for blog posts. In this post I discuss some PHP code to generate better titles for your WordPress blog.
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Links or Bookmarks?
WordPress could not decide what to call the section then named Blogroll. I argue for Links, especially for anyone using WordPress as a CMS, and point to the vote.
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The Transition to jQuery for WordPress
WordPress 2.2 was set to replace Prototype with jQuery in the admin area.
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WordPress Post Information Plugin
My first contribution to the WordPress community: a plugin that folds post information into a collapsible jQuery panel to save space on the page. Usage and changelog included.
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The Need For Substantive and Well-Written Blog Content
Bloggers spend enormous effort on hits and comments while neglecting the one thing that separates a good blog from a bad one. Tips on content, from syndication through structure.
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Brevity and the Blogger
I am guilty of the cardinal blogging sin of writing too much. A short piece on why readers scan rather than read, and what that should do to the way we write posts.
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Top Ten WordPress Plugins
I am vain enough to add one more top ten list to the pile: the WordPress plugins that saved me the most time, energy and heartache, in no particular order.
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WordPress Customized Feature Post
How to give a WordPress front page one featured post above links to the rest, using the Limit Posts plugin, with a strip_tags() fix for the unclosed markup it otherwise leaves behind.