Here’s my biggest secret: I’ve always thought I wouldn’t be good enough for what I do. I’ve let it hold me back in way too many ways. Here’s my story. 1) I went to a prestigious engineering school (Case Western Reserve University). Despite getting hired to work on a help desk on literally day one […]
I’m not one for settling down. If I’ve been in the same place for too long, I’m just itching. I haven’t travelled far since the Christmas holiday season — and it’s really getting me. Of course with moving and trying to sell a house, there’s limits on how far I can get right now – […]
My trip to WordCamp US in Philly was awesome, and a lot of fun. Like any technical conference, I got a lot out of the sessions, but I got even more out of the community interactions outside. I held back so many times from going to WordCamps because the more local ones to me didn’t […]
Several months ago, I noticed that of the many websites I had on one server, one of them was not updating properly. In fact, it never updated WordPress, and it actually acted like there was no such thing as an update. I forced an upgrade by uploading the new core via FTP, but as this […]
As someone who deploys a lot of WordPress sites over time, rather than just maintaining a couple large sites, there are two major (major to me!) changes coming in WordPress 4.3 that I am very happy about. 1) Comments are now turned off by default. As anyone who launches many non-blog websites with WordPress knows, […]