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Join us at WordCamp Jerusalem 2013: the official WordPress conference in Israel!

| February 14, 2013 | 2 Comments
I know it's been used before, but I find it hilarious. I love bad jokes. Okay, here goes: How many WordPress developers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Answer: None! There's a plugin for that. (In my mind...BWAHAAHAHAHA!! Almost as good as freshly squeezed orange ... View Post

What happened to the “search engines blocked” notification in WordPress 3.2?

| July 8, 2011 | 10 Comments
WordPress site owners have an option under Settings > Privacy to keep their site open to visitors, but block search engines. Very handy when developing a site, or managing a private site that you don’t want the world to see, but you don’t want to have to deal with logins either. We often use that ... View Post

Why I don’t like WordPress child themes and frameworks. Don’t be angry.

| May 26, 2011 | 38 Comments
I know that child themes and frameworks are all the rage. Especially since the release of TwentyTen. It's hard to find even one negative post about child themes on the web. I do understand that there are advantages to working with child themes, and they are very tempting. But. Not tempting enough. ... View Post

QuickTip: Show More Pages in your WordPress Dashboard

| May 12, 2011 | 3 Comments
I am totally in love with the Screen Options pull down tab in WordPress. I know it's been there for a few versions, but I never fully appreciated it until I started using the Show on Screen feature that lets you fill in how many pages you want to show in your list of ... View Post

My 2010 New Year resolution: to say thank you to WordPress

| January 4, 2010 | 3 Comments
Generally, the only thing a new Gregorian year (there are other calendars out there too, you know) means to me is that I must remember to write 2010 on checks. But since I’ve been reading so many New Year’s posts on other blogs, it got me thinking about what I have to say as ... View Post

Canonical URLs to help WordPress duplicate content issue

| February 23, 2009 | 11 Comments
Fancy words aside, a canonical URL is Google's way of identifying a "preferred" URL for your posts to avoid duplicate content. Duplicate content is generally defined as "separate web pages with substantially the same content, which may attract a penalty from search engines." Wordpress is often criticized for having duplicate content since ... View Post

WordPress Plugins Directory Search no longer “sucks”

| February 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
I just received an email from Matt Mullenweg, founder of Wordpress, letting me know that the "Plugin search no longer sucks".  I was so excited that I didn't even notice the typo he later reported on Twitter. According to the official Wordpress site, Wordpress Plugins directory search is no longer a ... View Post

WordCamp Israel 2008 part 2: my presentations on WordPress.com and Social Media

| November 21, 2008 | 9 Comments
As you may have seen, Rebecca already wrote up a great review of Sunday's 2nd WordCamp Israel event. I was privileged to present two short presentations at the event, which I have finally uploaded for all to see. Note that the images and titles of plugins or sites are ... View Post

Review of Wordcamp Israel 2008

| November 17, 2008 | 9 Comments
wordcamp Being that Wordcamp Israel was a bloggers conference in Tel Aviv, I'm sure there will be tons of people writing up their reviews in Hebrew. But maybe not quite as many in English, so here goes. This year's ... View Post

Is there an alternative to Feedburner?

| 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
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