A good plugin is pure joy. A buggy one can make you want to spit at your computer. Fact is, not all WordPress plugins are created equal when you consider things like ease of use, version compatibility and impact on page load. And if your WordPress site is acting weird, try deactivating your plugins one [...]

Web development veterans will generally advise to wait for the “point one” version of a software release before getting all cutting edge about things. I tend to agree. When I began seriously working on this site in April, 2008, I hastily updated to WordPress 2.5.0. Not much later along came 2.5.1 all shiny and [...]

I made it. No idea how I made it. But I did. My old, outdated site that I built in FrontPage (blasphemy!) back when I was a wee sprite getting my feet wet in the online business world is history. Sniff. It was a charming little website, for a newbie. Maintaining it was also akin [...]