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Miriam is the friendly CEO of illuminea, a WordPress design and development agency. Miriam is a huge fan of WordPress and has been using it for over five years now. In addition, Miriam and her team have been organizing the local Israeli WordCamp conferences for the past few years.

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Is there an alternative to Feedburner?

Miriam Schwab | October 30, 2008 | 30 Comments

We all use Feedburner to track our RSS subscribers. It's not just to feed that egotistical need to know how many people are hanging onto our every word, but the number of RSS feed subscribers you have is an important metric for indicating the success (or failure) of your blog. It seems ... View Post

Revolution themes enters next evolution

Miriam Schwab | October 30, 2008 | 0 Comments

You've probably heard the news, but I'm going to join the echo chamber anyways: Brian Gardner has taken his "Revolution" into a new Open Source evolution over at Revolution Two. Now he has ... View Post

New CSS for aligning images, block elements and captions

Miriam Schwab | August 19, 2008 | 15 Comments

I was recently working on a WordPress site, and I just couldn't get my images to left-align with the text so that the text would wrap around it. It was wrapping in the text editor in the admin, but on the front end the image stuck out of the top of the text. Rebecca, our ... View Post

WordPress 2.7 heavily based on existing plugins

Miriam Schwab | August 4, 2008 | 22 Comments

Weblog Tools Collection has published an overview of the features in store for us in WordPress 2.7. As I was reading the list, I noticed that many of them them are based on existing popular plugins, like the Google Sitemaps Generator, ... View Post

WordPress for iphone released, and other WordPress news

Miriam Schwab | July 24, 2008 | 2 Comments

There have been a few developments in the wonderful world of WordPress over the last little while. Let's take a look:

WordPress 2.6 was released. Nuff said.

WordPress for iPhone app released. This would be exciting news, BUT I'VE NEVER TOUCHED AN IPHONE IN MY LIFE

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Welcome back WordPress Press This bookmarklet! I missed you.

Miriam Schwab | July 18, 2008 | 2 Comments

A few days ago, the folk over at Automattic released WordPress 2.6. This release was so ahead of time (apparently it was released a month early) that I feel like it snuck up on me. First of all, kudos to all involved for getting out a new release ahead of time. And ... View Post

Preventing email spam with the built-in WordPress email obfuscator

Miriam Schwab | July 10, 2008 | 9 Comments

If you want to give people the option to contact you by email, you need to display your email address on your site. But by doing so, you are putting yourself at the mercy of the low-lives out there harvesting email addresses so they can spam you with products that will enlarge certain parts ... View Post

6 things to remember when moving WordPress blogs to a different host

Miriam Schwab | July 8, 2008 | 34 Comments

I recently had to move all my WordPress sites and blogs to a new server because Bluehost sucks. My sites were going down on a near-daily basis for way too long, and they couldn't care less. So I did what I really did not want to do, and moved six WordPress sites to a ... View Post

Social Proof: Increase subscribers to your blog by displaying your feed stats

Miriam Schwab | June 12, 2008 | 2 Comments

Last night I attended MashBash Tel Aviv, an intimate gathering of Mashable's Adam Hirsch and 800 of his closest friends from the Israeli hi-tech industry. In between having fun and getting served free drinks for three hours, I managed to learn something new. I learned about "social proof." Social ... View Post

I want a WordPress plugin to…

Miriam Schwab | June 11, 2008 | 5 Comments

So you've got a shiny new WordPress blog, and you really want to add a cool feature that either demands programming the feature into your site, or even better, finding the perfect plugin so that you can add the feature with a few clicks. The conventional way of finding plugins is to either search the ... View Post