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Using SiteGround For WordPress Hosting

May 7, 2015 / Tom

As if this is actually news to anyone, one of the number one choices that have to be made when hosting a website is where to actually host the site. And there’s no shortage of hosts from which to choose.

For beginners, it’s easy to look for cheap hosting, for more advanced users, it’s easy to look at managed hosting, dedicated hosting, VPS hosting, and for some businesses, it’s even best to look for reseller hosting.

Regardless where you fall, hosting is one of the most critical components that comes with running your own website – especially as it starts to grow beyond a basic blog and/or a basic site.

Over the years, I’ve experienced a number of different hosts – some great, some not so great – and I’ve usually blogged about a number of them. But as this site has continued to grow and as Pressware has continued to grow as well as head into a different direction, I opted to change hosts sometime ago.

Tips For Being A Productive Developer

May 6, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

I think one of the more popular discussions that comes up among developers (and designers) from time-time is how to be productive as possible. Personally, I’d go as to far as to say that it gets harder and harder each year (let alone each, say, quarter).

By that, I mean we try to use tools such as IRC, Skype, and Slack to mitigate the amount of email that we have, but they also require that we divide our time between focusing on our tasks at hand and then mulitasking between however many other applications are open (such as Twitter, Facebook, email, and whatever else).

I’m not knocking this at all! It just doesn’t work very well for me. Anyway, just as others like to share their tips for how to be productive, I thought I’d share the ways in which I try to achieve developer productivity (because that in and of itself is a challenge enough) rather than, say, general productivity.

So here are a few things that I do – and I’m curious to hear yours, as well.

A ThemeFuse Theme Giveaway

May 5, 2015 / Tom

Comments are closed. The winner has been selected and contacted. Thanks to all who participated!

Back in December, the team at ThemeFuse was kind enough to offer a giveaway and have offered to do the same again this month.

ThemeFuse Theme Giveaway

Since I try to take advantage of certain opportunities that help benefit those of you who are budding and/or experienced WordPress bloggers, designers, developers, and so on, I thought that it would be a good idea to go ahead and take them up on a second offer.

Using The WordPress Admin is All Wrong

May 4, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

I could completely be in the minority in what I’m about to say, but when I see phrases such as “The WordPress Admin,” I cringe a little.

Maybe I’m being a bit legalistic, but hear me out: All throughout the backend of WordPress, we see the phrase “Dashboard.” In fact, it’s the first menu item that we see.

Mayer For WordPress is For Sale

May 1, 2015 / Tom

A little over a year ago, I released Mayer For WordPress and have been selling it on WordPress.com ever since.

Mayer For WordPress

For those who are unfamiliar with the theme, it offers the following features:

Mobile-ready on all devices
`editor-style.css` so that all of the content you write in the Dashboard looks exactly as it will on the front-end
Designed specifically for the single-author blog
Offers no more options than necessary to get your blog looking at exactly like the demo
..and much more

Not long ago, I placed the theme on GitHub. In fact, for those who have been reading this blog long enough will recall that I used to run it on this site.

Using SiteGround For WordPress Hosting

Tips For Being A Productive Developer

A ThemeFuse Theme Giveaway

Using The WordPress Admin is All Wrong

Mayer For WordPress is For Sale

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