Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms vs Ninja Forms

When I started off with WordPress in 2008 the only plugin was Contact Form 7. Now, just like every type of plugin, there are many from which to choose. Some of the options seem to be a fly-by-night operation, but some have been around a while and don’t seem to be going anywhere. I’ll be…

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WordCamp Atlanta 2015

WordCamp Atlanta this year was slightly different. It was actually a three day event, at least for 1/3 of the people. Friday had the added day and it consisted of a beginner’s workshop. Unfortunately, the plan was to have a multisite where all 180 people, plus instructions like me, have their own WordPress install but…

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Change which type of files you can upload in WordPress

We recently had a client that needed to be able to upload a “vCard” and they were not able to do so. That is because WP limits what type of files can be uploaded. By default you can only upload media to the “Media Library”, which makes perfect sense, right? But what if we need…

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WordPress, Google, SEO

I found a pretty cool article saying that Google’s Matt Cutts (great name BTW, it’s a complete sentence, kind of like Brittney Spears) thinks WordPress is the best SEO platform.  From the article: It is a fantastic piece of software, makes your blog easily crawlable by search engines, solves some 80-90% of mechanics of SEO…

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