bbPress or Simple:Press? Decisions, decisions

This question seems to pop up frequently in VA, web development and related sites so why not share my experiences here – in case you too were wondering. A few years ago when I re-designed BloggingStarterPack, this question plagued me too. I went for bbPress, a little reluctantly but my reasons were, bbPress was part…

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Thank Your Commentators Plugin

A few people who have graciously taken time to comment on this blog last week have asked me which plugin I used to automatically send commentators a quick thank you note upon leaving their comment. It’s not a secret by any means and no, you don’t have to pay me to tell ya 😉 The…

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Are Premium Themes & Plugins Legal?

Photo credit: Nick Findley So there’s this debate that’s been going on for a while. WordPress is an open source software licensed under GPL. Even though I support and have released items under GPL, I shamefacedly admit this GPL thing is awfully confusing and don’t always ‘get it’. To make matters worse, there’s GPL v2…

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Does Your Theme Have Malware?

No doubt by now you know I am a huge WordPress fan – sure there are things that irritate me but so far they have been livable. I also love, love, love developing and modifying themes particularly to use a CMS. Over time, the WordPress community has been inundated by well… less ethical designers.  …

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Tired of Clicking and Clicking and Clicking

Love WordPress and all that but darn it, the admin takes a lot of clicking to get around. It has been that way for a long time so when they released 2.5 with all the major admin ‘improvements’, I thought they’d make it so there’s less clicking to get somewhere. But nooooo… in fact there’s…

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