Archive for the ‘Wordpress’ Category

Custom Widgets for relevant and targeted information for your readers

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Travis Campbell of MarketingProfessor.com posted a great Youtube video about displaying custom content in your sidebar depending on what page or post your visitor is viewing. The Custom Widgets plugin will automatically display content depending on the page or post.

I found it as part of ProBlogger’s 10 great tips from their readers. I’m still going through the rest of the list, and will probably type up another couple of them over here if for no other reason than to have them in my archives for easy finding.

Thanks Travis!

Migrating to WordPress for a blog

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

I’ve decided that since CMS Made Simple doesn’t have any of the automatic pinging capabilities that WordPress does that I should migrate over and continue blogging from it instead. I’ve transferred most of my posts over, but not all because those that actually could be wanted by someone are ~10, and the rest is just crap. I feel that part of my professional growth is going to be creating a journal of successes(what few I have), failures(what many I have), trials(shitloads of them), and tribulations(whatever these are).

Moving forward with a good platform is key; I’m going to continue to develop sites with CMSMS but I’m not going to be using it myself on this site. WordPress development is something I’ve been meaning to get in to for a while as well though, so maybe actually having a site to do it on will spur action on my part.