WordPress 2.7 is slated to be released very soon and I’ve started playing around with the beta release. And I’ve begun producing some updated videos for wpscreencasts.com
The video below provides a quick intro to the new dashboard coming in WordPress 2.7. The changes to the dashboard are dramatic and will require adjustments from even the [...]
It’s the last day of this series and since it’s Friday, I’m going to add a relatively simple feature to Red Pill. After all, the weekend is looming large.
I thought that I would add a blogroll to Red Pill, but I decided to use the blogroll feature of WordPress in a non-traditional way. Most bloggers [...]
Yesterday, I added in the All-in-one-SEO-pack plugin for WordPress. A relatively simple kickoff to my five days, five new features series I’m running this week to get myself back on the wagon with blogging. Or is off the wagon. I get those confused all the time, so who knows.
Today, I’m going to adding a list [...]
Last week, I basically wrote about blog neglect. Some of that neglect has been a result of client work that we’re just not quite ready to start talking about yet. But some of the time suck has been due to some internal tasks…many of which are related to this very blog.
So in effort, to roll [...]
A recent post on WP Candy posed the question "Does WordPress Scare Your Clients?" It is absolutely true that to some degree, new users will not be comfortable with the WordPress administrative dashboard and will not know how to do even the simplest tasks such as adding a new post. But being scared and not [...]
Today, just in time for WordCamp San Francisco 2008, Shiny New Toy is taking the wraps off a new website we’ve been working on: WP Screencasts. WP Screencasts is a compilation of instructional training videos for managing web content with the WordPress platform. If you are a current client of ours and we’ve built a [...]
Right on the heels of WordCamp is the WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt. Proceeds from this event - which looks like it will be very fun - will benefit 826 Valencia.
To play a little six degrees of WordPress separation…
The WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt benefits 826 Valencia
826 Valencia was founded by Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers won the 2008 [...]
Akismet is an obvious choice for any list of WordPress plugins we always use. But there’s plenty of other plugins that we find ourselves installing every single time we build a site with WordPress. If Matt and the Automattic crew ever decide to make these part of the core WP software, Holly and I certainly [...]
One of the first projects Holly and I undertook under the Shiny New Toy name, MeltingSpot, is now live.
MeltingSpot, a free email newsletter and website, is an Internet version of the American “melting pot” society - a place where Americans and immigrants come together to close the culture gap. Read MeltingSpot for advice on how [...]
About a week ago the WordPress app for the iPhone was announced with an awesome screencast. And now that the app has been released and seeing that JJ and I are HUGE fans of WordPress, its only fitting that I do a quick review (especially since between the two of us, I’m the iPhone owner).
So… [...]
