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WordCamp Soltau Recap

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Last weekend Taco, Karin and I from team Yoast attended a new kind of WordCamp. A WordCamp Retreat. Located in the North of Germany we experienced a very relaxed WordCamp with some interesting differences from your regular WordCamps. I've written a full recap for WP Tavern which was published this morning, and this is one of the things I mentioned there: Most of this was made possible by the location. Hotel Park Soltau is located in the North of Germany surrounded by woods and heath. The hotel was reserved for WordCamp attendees only. Everyone stayed there, ate there, and ... Continue reading »

On Theme Onboarding in WordPress

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One of the actions that raise a lot of questions over for clients over at WP ServicePoint is the moment when a client decides to switch to a new design, a new theme. It's one of those actions that is surprisingly poor handled by the vast majority of the themes out there. A few of the questions I saw in our mail queue made it very obvious that there are themes out there that really shouldn't be handled by new to average WordPress users. That's a bold statement, right? Well, yes it is, but it's also true. And yes, some of those themes were the kind that tries to solve every damn website ... Continue reading »

Demo Screencast Preparation Steps

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I love discovering new cool WordPress plugins/solutions and I love it even more if the developer has taken the effort to create a demo video of the plugin in action. However: https://twitter.com/DeFries/status/751377394062286848 So, let's address that. What is my opinion about that? I think it comes across unprofessional and sloppy. There, I said it. Now, it's very easy to criticize something, but it takes effort to actually come up with a solution. Or rather, in this case, steps to take to prevent sloppy demo videos. On that note, I'd like to share with you the steps that I ... Continue reading »

Help! WordPress Won’t Do Automatic Updates!

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As you may have seen WordPress 3.7 just got released and with it automatic updates. Now, in some cases, people may discover that their particular sites can't update automagically. In my findings in the sites, we manage for clients the most common reason is that you have had to update WordPress previously by entering your FTP credentials. If you've done that once, changes are WordPress remembered those for you, but in this case, those credentials need to be placed in your wp-config.php file in order for the automatic updates to work. Luckily, all you need to do is add the ... Continue reading »

WordCamp Europe: For The Greater Good

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Back in 2008 when I started to take over and clean up the mess that was the admin side of things of the Dutch WordPress releases, forums and translations, I got to know this one fellow who was helping me out a great deal. Zé and I got to talking —more like slow chatting via Skype & email, but you get the picture ;) We soon realized that the International WordPress Community and all its assets needed a lot of love to get up to get to the same level as WordPress.org. One of the things we talked about was how beneficial a strong European WordPress Community would be and how we could ... Continue reading »