• Elegant Themes – Is Their Beauty Lacking Tech Support Smarts?

    by  • January 19, 2012 • 0 Comments

    Anyone who looks at Elegant Themes will attest to their graphic sumptuousness.  Also, their purchase terms are excellent.  But could this be causing problems with their tech support? Only Skin Deep I reported a problem that I found in their Simple Press theme that I found upon updating WordPress to 3.3.1.  It was a problem [...]

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    How I Fixed My MODx Evo Site Running on Namecheap Hosting

    by  • January 17, 2012 • 0 Comments

    I like using Namecheap for domain hosting.  They provide a nice alternative to Godaddy, whose activities just keep getting lamer.  This week is the first time I’ve used Namecheap web hosting, which is not quite as impressive. Stacked, But All Looks and Few Brains My client wanted me to move her MODx site from a [...]

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    Genesis and Thesis WordPress Frameworks – Some Thoughts

    by  • December 23, 2011 • 0 Comments

    It's rumored that the engineer was distracted when comparing Genesis and Thesis

    I have been using the Genesis framework to build WordPress sites for awhile now, and I’m very happy with how well it works, and how helpful it is for building sites and themes.  Its flexibility is excellent, and it has cheerfully accepted everything I’ve thrown at it so far.   The forum is very helpful, [...]

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    Using a WordPress Custom Field With the Genesis Framework

    by  • October 19, 2011 • 2 Comments

    Note: this is intended for WordPress developers. For some time now I’ve been really enjoying the excellent StudioPress Genesis Theme Framework.  (In fact, I like it enough that I also became an affiliate)  Developing WordPress themes is easier and more organized than ever.  While learning the framework, I made use of their helpful hook reference, [...]

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    Texting Could Help Web Developer Job Security

    by  • September 23, 2011 • 0 Comments

    A Pie Made Entirely of Smartphones.  Mmm, just like Mom's!

    According to Pew Research, texting is overwhelmingly the preferred method of communication for teens.  Anecdotally, that seems pretty obvious, but I was not aware of the numbers involved, and how much other methods have waned.  The teens and people under 25 that I know certainly are emblematic of this trend.  If I send one of [...]

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    RSS Feed in MODx Revo

    by  • August 18, 2011 • 2 Comments

    This means RSS feed.  But you knew that!

    This post is intended for MODx developers.  I did a post awhile ago on getting RSS feeds working in MODx Evo, the legacy version.  I also tried doing it in Revo (the latest version) at that time, but when using GetFeed, the most widely known Revo RSS snippet, I could only get Twitter working, and [...]

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