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Interested in SEO For Beginners?

February 18, 2015 / Tom

One of the things that I enjoy about keeping up with friends who are involved in different areas of development than I am is all of the cool things that they’re working on.

Sure, many are doing cool stuff within WordPress, but there are also a lot of people who are doing things with other technologies in web development, with OS X development, with eBooks, with their blogs, and so on.

I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Andrew Mason (no, not of Groupon), for the past several years and he’s someone who’s always got his hands in something media related – be it video production, audio production, or something along those lines.

Recently, he was tapped to narrate several audio books on search engine optimization, and he’s been kind enough to offer up several codes for free access to the audio book SEO Like I’m 5: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization.

Unsolicited Advice in WordPress (But Is It Really?)

February 17, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

Obviously, I can only speak for as much of the culture that I’ve experienced both online and offline so I don’t mean this to be an overly general statement, but I think it’s fair we live in a highly polarized culture – if not offline, and if not in the west, then certainly online.

That is, we have no problem telling one another if their policy, their ideas, their implementations, or whatever sucks, or if it’s terrific. Unfortunately, it seems to be much more of the former than the latter.

I tend to be more on the pessimistic side – I know, probably not the most flattering personality trait, but I try to fight it :) – so I don’t know if it’s getting better, but I can definitively say that over the past few days, I’ve personally experienced some criticism – all constructive – that’s respectful and that has generated a lot of food for thought.

Pressware Needs an Intern (Want to Work on Some Projects With Me?)

February 16, 2015 / Tom

For those of you who have followed this blog for sometime, you’re likely aware that I make a living building solutions for others using WordPress – all of this is done under my company, Pressware.

From the landing page, you’ll notice that there are two other team members – Stephen and Nathaniel – both of whom are responsible for other tasks on the team (and we’re even shifting roles a little bit more very soon, but that’s beside the point).

Though I’ve almost always done exclusively project-based work, I’m also looking into branching out into products, as well. I doubt this is a surprise. The thing is, in order to help expand the business into both products and services, I need a little bit of help in growing the business.

To that end, I’m looking for an intern.

Mayer For WordPress Now on GitHub

February 13, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

Not quite a month ago, I mentioned that I was going to begin open sourcing the themes (and potentially plugins) that we sell on WordPress.com. Right now, this is only a single theme (though others are in development and I’ll talk more about that later).

As of today, Mayer for WordPress.com along with the three (yep, the only three) outstanding issues for the next milestone are available on GitHub.

Mayer on GitHub

The initial post was met with some great conversation via both the comments and tweets – some pushback, some not – but I’m excited to see where this goes and I do feel that this is the best decision, for now, with respect to this particular theme.

Am I Giving To WordPress?

February 12, 2015 / Tom / 0 Comments

Yesterday, I stumbled across tweet from a fellow developer for whom I greatly respect. He said:

https://twitter.com/johnpbloch/status/565399105544126464

Which naturally got me a little bit introspective wondering ifI have been giving to WordPress as much as I should.