Archer Creative | Multi-Media Marketers and Storytellers located in Birmingham, Alabama
Multi-Media Marketers and Storytellers located in Birmingham, Alabama
Last night, a glitch in Feedburner’s system filled our Twitter stream with tweets from bloggers concerned about their site feeds. Feedburner, a web feed (RSS) management tool, has been a valuable tool in the blogger’s toolbox for many years. A few years back, Google acquired it, made some changes, and then promptly stopped developing and [...]
WordPress 3.4, also called “Green”*, was released yesterday, June 13th, and it has some super cool upgrades, like this: https://twitter.com/Archer_Creative/status/213019863982145537 I was able to embed that Tweet onto this post by simply pasting the permalink of the Tweet into the post editor. Readers can ‘follow’, ‘reply’, ‘retweet’ etc without leaving the post. Some additional features: [...]
Next weekend, January 14th and 15th, make plans to attend WordCamp Birmingham (nicknamed “WPY’all”). The speaker and sessions lineup has been finalized and, WOW -I’m excited about going! I had already planned on attending, but I am also going to be speaking. My topic is Blogging and Dating: Not so Different. What your business or [...]
I recently had the pleasure of working with Cara, owner of Health, Home and Happiness on a redesign of her site. She was already set up on WordPress, but wanted a new look, along with some new functions to help organize and showcase her articles and recent posts, as well as her newsletter and ebooks. [...]
On July 4th, WordPress released their latest version: 3.2 (named “Gershwin“, in honor of the composer). Unless there is a security upgrade along with it, I usually wait a day or so to upgrade all of my sites, just to make sure nothing “breaks” because of it. We’ve all heard horror stories and rants on [...]
Today, WordPress.org released it’s 14th version. Version 3.1 Just in writing this post, I am noticing some new features that I know will be very handy: WordPress now has an admin bar that allows you to quickly access various parts of your dashboard and admin pages directly from your site, as long as you are [...]
Any business or individual who is interested in learning more about blogging and/or WordPress will want to attend the WordCamp being held in Birmingham September 18 and 19th. And guess what: I’m speaking. Not on my own – but on a panel. We’ll be discussing SEO, Design and Marketing. Panel Discussion: My business website needs… [...]
