A new toolkit The beauty of the Gutenberg project is it is not just an editor, but a coding component system. What at first appears to be an infringement on ‘artistic license’ for developers is alternatively liberation from the TinyMCE editor and its trappings. Gutenberg serves as a standardization for the WordPress software that is […]
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A Twentyninteen Rebrand
As I began the new year, I decided it was finally time to dust off my FTP client and rethink my website. Past iterations of my site were mostly just tinkering and devoid of any real substance. Yes, lessons were learned, but some things just need to be burnt to the ground and built from […]
Northern Short Course
The 38th Annual Northern Short Course (NSC) will be held March 7-9, 2019, at the Renaissance Woodbridge Hotel in Iselin, NJ. The Northern Short Course is a three day event for professional journalists that offers lectures and workshop series to help foster professional development. I’ll be leading a workshop titled Why An Opensource Website Matters. Find out more […]
Working with Pixelgrade and Gutenberg
I work everyday with users on WordPress.com. Implementing Gutenberg into such a large project is vastly different than implementing it alongside an individual website. When working on personal projects, any issue can become a major issue pretty easily. I can see why some of the community isn’t too thrilled with the changeover. I know that […]
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Creating a blog on WordPress.com
Export – Signup – Import – Setup Here’s a fun scenario, let’s say we have a blog on a self-hosted site but we want to transfer its contents to WordPress.com. How would we do that? Export The first step would be to export the content from our current site. Most content managers have an export […]
WordPress Pt. 3
Configuration and Settings Sharing Now that you have great content you will probably want to share it. Sure, you could, and should, manually post your content across all of your social media platforms. But why not allow your viewers to share the content? WordPress.com has sharing buttons baked right into your website. Go to Sharing -> Connections […]
WordPress – Pt 2
In part one we looked at how to set up a blog on WordPress.com and choose a theme, now we need to add content. Publish Content Now that your site is set up, looking stylish, and exudes a sense of you, it is time to add some content. Content is king. Creating great content is the […]
WordPress.com – Pt. 1
Get Started – Register – Profile – Name Creation Register Go to WordPress.com and create a username and password Create a web address WordPress comes with a free web address for every blog. All free blogs follow the same naming scheme ‘yourcoolsite.wordpress.com.’ Pro tip, yourcoolsite is a subdomain of WordPress.com, the entire WordPress.com ecosystem is […]
WooCommerce Review – Pt. 5
Settings If you ran the quick setup wizard, a lot of these settings should already be set. Let’s take a look at the other features included in WooCommerce. General The General section control settings such as your location, the locations you sell and ship to, and how WooCommerce collects your customer’s location. You can also […]