Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a number of WordPress.com initiatives trying to touch on niche business segments. As happytables is fairly known within the community, some chatter came up when the most recent vertical relating to restaurants was released. I’d like to take this opportunity to clear some things up as well as [...]
Back when I used to have an office job, 80% of the work was repetitive and far from challenging. As a result, I came up with ways to automate various tasks (think Excel Macros, Access, Crystal Reports, etc.). This allowed me to focus on items that actually required some form of judgement or decision-making. When [...]
I’ve always been of the opinion that WordCamp is about everything that happens outside of the presentations. Whilst that is still the most important to me, I do find myself occasionally looking at the presentation schedule and not feeling particular excited for a number of sessions. Why is that? I’ve pondered over this question during the past [...]
In pursuit of awesome conversion rates, I’ve been amazed by all sorts of landing pages over the years. The redesign of WordPress.com in the last day was obviously one to watch out for. I however can’t help but wonder if they’re going to see the amount of sign-ups decline? The first rule of conversion club [...]
Custom post types are e-commerce products, books, real estate properties and many other things, but the last thing they are, are posts. So why do we continue to use the default posts interface to manage all this awesome additional information we’re storing? Data. I was wondering about this issue a while back, as we (Theme [...]
