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Most Trusted WP plugins for 2015

I've been developing Wordpress websites now for four years. During that time I've created my own plugin, worked on some theme frameworks and been apart of teams that built simple blogs and universities....

Command Line Basics Cheatsheet

If you're looking to learn a new programming language, Treehouse is a fantastic learning resource and one that I use the most when learning the basics of something new....

SEO Basics: How to do Social Media

The following is an article written by my colleague, Austin Fogt. He's worked with organizations in a number of ways, ranging from helping them set up social media for the first time, to running ad campaigns and growth campaigns on social media. You can find him on twitter @AFeezyFogt....

SEO Basics: Code and Website Optimzation

Once you finished your Keyword research, you should have a list of 70+ keywords and phrases that you're ready to use through out your site's content. Armed with this list, you can put those keywords and phrases in the following places, to help improve your sites ranking and index process....

SEO Basics: Keywords

This article is for everyone. You may have a small business with a website your nephew built. You may be the nephew about to build your uncle's small business rad website. I'll run down what SEO is, basic setup and principles....

Local SEO basics

You own a small business. It could be a restaurant or coffee shop, or you run a small auto repair shop. You already have a website but you've heard about this mysterious cheap marketing thing called SEO....

Creating Custom Google Maps for Businesses

When creating a website for a local business, more often than not I include a google map. It's a great easy way for people who visually see where the business is located. However there are a few reasons why just embedding them on the page isn't always ideal:...

Creating Custom Excerpts based on paragraphs

With a few of my clients, they wanted more than the standard excerpt. They wanted to display a paragraph or two of the post. without echoing out a whole post in an archive or landing page. Now Wordpress has great examples on how to do things similar to this with get_the_excerpt(); and the_excerpt(); .However i wanted to try a new method, using a mix of stand PHP functions and a few Wordpress functions I haven't used before....

Creating External Link for Admin Submenu

Have you ever wanted to add a submenu that didn't link to a page you created? A while back, a client requested a link to a particular view and arrangement of a table in admin area of Wordpress. To the best of my knowledge, there wasn't a standard function within wordpress used to pair a submenu item, that you could customize, to a parent top level menu....

Font Awesome 4.2.0 fixes for Firefox

Font Awesome is a great icon resource and I encourage everybody to give it a try at least once. It's my go to icon set whenever I'm using social media links on a website. One problem people run in to is that from time to time a random icon won't load correctly in Firefox. Here are a few solutions if you notice one or all of your font's aren't working:...