Category: WordPress

  • GoDaddy’s Big Guns on the ‘cooler

    We had the GoDaddy’s Senior VP of Hosting on the Watercooler today! Some folks say I gave them a hard time … I say I didn’t give nearly the hard time they’ve been giving me and my clients for years! (And I didn’t ask nearly as many hard questions as I could have!) Check it…

  • WPWatercooler: WordPress Design Trends! (Ep 111)

    In which we talk parallax, sliders, UI and I touch myself with Chris Ford, Tracey Lavesque, Suzette Franck, Robert Neinhouse, Jason Tucker and Steve Zenghut.

  • 100 WPwatercooler episodes? What?!

    Really? 100 WPwatercooler episodes? This is a bigger milestone than crossing the 5 million views mark! And not just because Google recalculated views and now we haven’t actually crossed the 5 million views mark! 100 episodes seems like a significant amount of content.  I haven’t been on all of them, but I’ve only missed a…

  • WPwatercooler Episode 84: Choosing a WordPress Hosting Plan

    Hey it’s Monday again, and that means we did another WPwatercooler! Booyah! Episode 84 … and we are quickly approaching 100! Today we talked about hosting. As always, a gamut of opinions and a tangential approach. I’m not kidding when I tell the small business folk I work with that there is no one opinion…

  • WPwatercooler Episode 82: Dealing with Client Problems

    Another episode of the WPwatercooler … we talk about resolving client problems. Actually we mostly talk about preventing them in the first place …

  • Why You Should Not Use the WordPress Media Library (or Taken Out of Context/I Must Seem So Strange)

    If you are acquainted with me or my WordPress work, you likely know that I am a regular on the weekly webcast the WPwatercooler. The Watercooler is a grand old time … up to 10 WordPress folk chit-chatting about WordPress-y stuff in a live-broadcast Google Hangout for a half-hour every Monday. One of my favorite…

  • WordCamp Phoenix – An Introduction to WordPress

    WCPHX 2012 was the first WordCamp I ever attended, and it changed everything. No more would I toil alone in front of my computer, with only Google and the codex to share my WordPress highs and lows. Before I even got home from Phoenix, I had found OCWP and I attended the very next meetup.…

  • Blogging Strategies: WPwatercooler Episode 68!

    We closed out 2013 talking about strategies for blogging more in 2014 … which is GREAT because that is definitely one of my 2014 goals! My recommended takeaway (and my plan for 2014) … check out Write or Die (which I learned about from the epic Tiffany Han) and just force yourself to write SOMETHING.

  • A breakdown of the WordPress image settings

    Recently, I posted a query about session topics to a group of attendees of an upcoming indie biz conference that I’ll be speaking at. The responses I’ve received so far line up nicely with my planned curriculum, but I also received the following reply and accompanying screenshot from a crafter named NK: “I’d like to…

  • “Installing WordPress” at WordCamp Phoenix

    Back in January I presented a session on installing WordPress at WordCamp Phoenix and it’s on wordpress.tv! I cover the basics of what WordPress fundamental hosting setup and go over three different ways to install WordPress. Then I do a step-by-step install using QuickInstall. You can see the video here: And my slides are here!