Awakened Voice

I think that WordPress would be a lot more useful as website and blogging tool if two areas of the functionality were improved.
WordPress sidebar widgets are a big step up from earlier versions where you had to code by hand to place and arrange different items in the sidebar. But what I really like to [...]

I spent some time today doing a bit of work under the hood over at the Blubrry blog. I always learn something new every time I go under the hood on WordPress.
The theme needed an overhaul and I also wanted to make better use of Alex King’s Share This plugin. I followed the instructions on [...]

I’ve been doing some house cleaning on the blog today. I spent a few hours updating my version of K2. K2 is a WordPress super theme with lots of great features.  Most of the sites I build on WordPress end up with the K2 theme added.
I like the fact that K2 gives me a more [...]

Coming very soon to San Francisco. July 21st and 22nd. Tickets are$25. Current attendee list here.
They need to have one of these soirées on the East Coast too!
[tags]Social Media, WordPress, WordCamp[/tags]

I gave WordPress.com a real thrashing earlier this week over their turn on of the debatable Snap.com feature. Sorry Matt
Time to give something back. I’m a huge WordPress user (as you might have noticed) and I am very excited about the new features coming up in the 2.1 release. Here are my favorites [...]

Just saw the post by Matt indicating that WordPress.com had hit the 500,000 blog mark. That’s a lot of blogs.
They have bulit a good service over there that works for a lot of people. I put my wife on a WordPress.com blog when she wanted to start photo blogging.
What’s wild about the WordPress story is [...]

I’ve been very busy over the last week attending to my Raw Voice duties, but I still hope to keep up with and deliver the latest and greatest on social media.
To that end I see that WordPress version 2.0.5 has been released into the wild. This news comes from the WordPress Dev Blog.
According to their [...]

I spend a lot of time implementing and tweaking WordPress so it was only fitting that I start attending the local WordPress meetup group in New York City.
They had a gathering on Saturday so I dropped in to meet some local WordPressers. Little did I know that Barry from Automattic would be in from San [...]

Neville Hobson just pointed me to an excellent WordPress plugin called Sig2Feed.
The plugin will add a customizable signature to each of the posts in your RSS feed. The main purpose of this feature is to direct people back to your site if they happen to stumble upon your content through another site that is aggregating [...]

I’ve just added a new lesson over in the Learning Center. It’s a tour of the very excellent PodPress podcasting plugin for WordPress.
If you’ve been thinking about podcasting using WordPress as the engine then it’s worth a few minutes of your time to see what PodPress can do for you.
[tags]Social Media, Podcasting, Wordpress, Podpress, Lessons[/tags]