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Local WordPress Meetups (Mine and Yours)

January 19, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

Local WordPress Meetups, versus WordCamps and other similar events, are really cool events if you can find them in your area.

Luckily, I live in a place where there are meetups for users, for developers, for those looking to get started in WordPress, and everything in between. Needless to say, I’m proud of the Atlanta-area WordPress community (speaking of which, are you coming to WordCamp Atlanta?).

Local WordPress Meetups

A few years ago, I participated in my first local WordPress meetup: WordPress Gwinnett. It was generally what you’d expect. There were neat people, solid topics that were being discussed, and people learning about what other people were up to in their day-to-day with WordPress.

But then life happened (in a good way, to be clear) and I had to step away; however, things have settled and I’m ready to get back into attending the meetups the first of which is this week.

Must Read WordPress Articles 3

January 18, 2016 / Tom

On Christmas Eve of last year, I started this whole thing of sharing a list of articles that I think are must reads for anyone involved in WordPress. Ultimately, I ended up publishing the first two on US holidays.

And since today is a holiday in the US, I thought why not continue the trend?

Eventually, the list of articles is going to start looking like this.

In this post, I’ve got a small set of WordPress articles I think anyone involved in WordPress should read as well as a couple of bonus links for those who are involved in the PHP community at large.

Tips For Generating Blog Post Ideas

January 15, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

Recently, Chris Lema published a blog post titled Have You Run Out of Blog Post Ideas? And if you haven’t read it, then I highly recommend it. (In fact, if you’re involved in WordPress, I highly recommend you subscribe to his blog.)

Running Out of Blog Post Ideas?

In the post, he shares some practical tips for how he comes up with ideas for blog posts. If you’re someone who’s looking to blog more regularly but aren’t sure how to do it, then the post gives you some great advice for how to help capture ideas and turn them into posts.

Since I try to blog daily and I try to make sure what I have to say isn’t something that’s meant to fill some type of weekly quota, I thought I’d follow suit and share how I go about coming up with ideas for posts and then turning them into actual posts.

Our Critics and WordPress and The Silver Screen

January 14, 2016 / Tom

As much as I love movies (and I’d venture to say that few people don’t), I rarely talk about them on this blog. I mean, there’s very little overlap between whatever it is we experience in the theater or via Netflix that crosses lines into what we, as those involved WordPress, do for a living.

Sure, I mean there are plenty of TV shows and movies that try to show some type of computing or programming angle – probably now more than ever – but it’s rarely worth mentioning unless you’re simply writing to make fun of it.

But good movies, you know, those that make you feel something or that connect with you on a level that doesn’t happen often can end up creating some type of connection between what you’ve seen on the screen and what you do for a living.

So for a moment, let’s pretend there’s some type of connection that can be made between our critics and WordPress and the movies that we watch.

Where Do You Find Quality WordPress Support?

January 13, 2016 / Tom / 0 Comments

Last week, I asked: “Should WordPress product support be in-house?” And the short version of the conclusion to which I came is simple: Yes. It should be. This still leaves a question about how to handle general WordPress support, though.

Specifically, the problem is when something goes wrong with your product, the general end user doesn’t know if it was your work, the theme, WordPress, or the environment on which all of the software is running.

And if your product is the last thing the user installed, then you’re likely going to be the first person contacted. So let’s say you are running a theme or plugin or WordPress product shop, and your customer has a problem, but it’s not related to the work you’ve done.

In other words, though you do (and arguably should) offer in-house product support, the problem isn’t related to your product at all.

What then?

Tom McFarlin

Local WordPress Meetups (Mine and Yours)

Must Read WordPress Articles 3

Tips For Generating Blog Post Ideas

Our Critics and WordPress and The Silver Screen

Where Do You Find Quality WordPress Support?