How to add semantic data to your WordPress site in 20 minutes or less – my talk at WordSesh 2013
A bit over a week ago I was invited to speak at the second WordSesh online conference. WordSesh is a full day of live WordPress presentations from all over the world. The presentations were live-streamed via Google Hangouts, and you can see my presentation and the video at the end of this post. I spoke about […]
3 excellent sources for keeping up-to-date on WordPress news
Like any piece of self-respecting software or online service, WordPress and its ecosystem are constantly changing and improving. Between core updates, new plugins, and useful tutorials released by the community, it can be hard to keep track of it all. As an agency that provides WordPress services, we of course must constantly stay up-to-date on […]
Learn from my mistakes, don’t make them! My talk at WordCamp Europe, and some thoughts
WordCamp Europe has come and gone, and it was amazing. I have been to five WordCamps, but all were in Israel, so it was great to expand my WordPress horizons to Europe, and the world. WordCamp Europe was impeccably organized by a group of energetic and passionate volunteers. Everything went smoothly: the sound systems worked, […]
I’m off to WordCamp Europe: WordCamp for the rest of the world (i.e. not in the US)!
Tomorrow I’ll be leaving on a jet plane for the land of windmills and tulips: Holland. The purpose: to participate in, and speak at, WordCamp Europe! For the first time ever, a pan-European WordCamp is taking place on Oct. 5-7 in Leiden, The Netherlands. As many of you know, we at illuminea have been organizing […]
WordPress 3.6 is cool: native support for video and audio files, post locking and more
This past Friday, a new version of WordPress was released to the world. Called “Oscar” after Oscar Peterson, a jazz pianist, it includes some pretty cool and exciting updates and features. Here’s a rundown of some of the highlights: Native support for video and audio files WordPress has great support for embedding YouTube and Vimeo […]
Google’s Matt Cutts didn’t really say that we don’t have to worry about duplicate content
A recent video Q&A with Google’s ambassador to the world, Matt Cutts, is under heavy discussion among the SEO community around the web. In the video, Cutts says that we don’t have to worry if we have duplicate content on our sites. Or does he? Wait, what’s this Duplicate Content business? Some context: it is […]
Skitch, the awesome screenshot and annotation app, available for Windows!
For years I’ve been pining over Skitch. Like so many things created by and for Apple, Skitch is beautiful, elegant and simple. It does what it should do, easily and without unnecessary frills. Every so often I’d click through to the Skitch website to see if maybe, just maybe, we lowly Windows users could become […]
See updates that a Facebook Page is trying to hide
Have you ever posted a status update on the Facebook Page of a company in order to complain about something, only to find that your post has been removed by the page admin? It can be very upsetting. You can’t help but feel that your freedom of expression is being limited, and that the company […]
How to automatically backup your digital life with Dropbox, Backupify, Google and more
Our lives are increasingly digital. Just think about it: our personal and business communication, photos, documents – they’re all being stored in digital format. And that information isn’t just stored on your hard drive anymore: you might have your email running on Google’s servers thanks to their Gmail service, your photos saved on your smartphone, […]
Make sure your computer is not using rogue DNS servers…before July 9
On July 9, 2012, there is a chance that many computers will cease to be able to surf the web because of malware that proliferated among millions of computers starting in 2007. You can find out if your computer is among them. Why will computers stop being able to surf the web? Starting in 2007, […]