Why is it so tough to find anything about hooking up other tools to Google+. Actually, somewhat ironically, it seems tough to find anything on Google+ via a search on, erm, Google. Would be nice to feed it from my WordPress blog. Also what if it could also setup the service to drop my public [...]

Got caught up on a discussion around what screen resolutions most people use these days to view blogs. Made me dig into the trusty Google Analytics to see if I could discover anything for this very blog. This is what I found: Less than 10% of the audience use 1024×768 or less. Given that the [...]

If you’ve ever had a problem losing a blog post to an errant web-based WYSIWYG editor, or have struggled cutting and pasting from an MS Word document into a blog post, then you might want to take Windows Live Writer for a spin.   This small Windows desktop client plays nicely with all the major [...]

For some years the WordPress platform has been called a ‘lightweight content management system’. It’s functionality goes way beyond that of a standard blogging platform (driven by the large number of plugins and theme extensions), and with a bit of know-how you can mold it to fit your content management needs. That’s just what Anca [...]

The BPI Institute website have an article covering the problems of successfully implementing a business process management  (BPM) solution . Don’t know what a BPM is? Don’t worry – I only have the faintest idea. What was striking were the reasons for…

I manage a small coterie of blogs that on average receive about 20,000 page views per month. Somewhere between 16-19% of these visitors touch the homepage somewhere on their travels. The clear majority actually enter through the homepage. Bottom line: the homepage is pretty damned important. This recently brought me onto an argument on what [...]

I’m in the process of redesigning CagedEther after inspiration following a Theme Framework session. On investigating different WordPress themes, I came across a system to that may well help me juggle and organize the various pieces I want to squeeze into my blog’s latest incarnation. First though, a minor detour into my personal history, to [...]

If you are a long-time WordPress developer who understands all the ins and outs of theme development then this post isn’t for you. OK, now we’ve got that out of the way, for those of you left, let’s try and decipher where the real value lies in theme frameworks. Help comes in the shape of [...]