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This blog is based on WordPress, and customizing and SEO-ing it is a constant process, so I blog about that quite often. After all, good SEO on this blog makes for lots of visitors, which is exactly what I want of course.

VideoPress: Web Video, WordPress Style

Oct 09, 2009 Joost de Valk 48 comments

This morning I was pleasantly surprised to find a new advertiser had signed on to my blog. The guys at Automattic have placed an ad for VideoPress, and I had to admit that I had briefly looked at the service but hadn't done anything with it yet. I guess this was a good time to [...]

Tags: video
Categories: WordPress

Quick WP tip: pagination classes

Oct 06, 2009 Joost de Valk 18 comments

One of my colleagues was working on a site for a client of ours, and needed to apply styling to the previous and next post link. As in most of our sites we use Lester Chan's excellent wp-pagenavi plugin so I dove into that to check how I could style it.
Turns out Lester is [...]

Tags: WordPress Themes
Categories: WordPress

Press This with Aaron Brazell

Sep 23, 2009 Joost de Valk 5 comments

Last nights Press This featured a very pleasant conversation with Aaron Brazell, also known as Technosailor, the author of the upcoming WordPress Bible. We discussed a lot of things, as usual, and as I promised in the comments on my previous Press This update, I've kept more notes so I can do this post and [...]

Tags: Press This, TextMate, wordcamp, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Widgets
Categories: WordPress

Press This updates

Sep 16, 2009 Joost de Valk 19 comments

So since I haven't gone as far as adding the Press This podcast straight into my feed (I think I will though, if you have a problem with that, I'd love for you to let me know in the comments), I wanted to give you an update here on the recent shows.
There have been three [...]

Tags: Press This
Categories: WordPress

Sociable gets a new home

Sep 14, 2009 Joost de Valk 34 comments

Over the last few months I've been doing a lot of work on my plugins. I've found out that with each new release, they get more users, which is good, and get more time demanding, which is unfortunate. Now with OrangeValley going so well, and the things we have planned there, as well as my [...]

Tags: sociable, WordPress Plugins
Categories: WordPress

My presentation at Think Visibility

Sep 12, 2009 Joost de Valk 5 comments

Here are the slides from my presentation here at Think Visibility. As I talk a lot more than I type on my slides this might not always make sense to you if you weren't there, but feel free to follow all the links and check it all out!

Tags: Conferences
Categories: WordPress

Gravity Forms on Press This

Aug 26, 2009 Joost de Valk 32 comments

Last night, Carl Hancock of Gravity Forms was my guest on the 3rd episode of Press This. We discussed what this awesome new plugin does, how they went about developing it and a whole lot more. If you're interested, listen to the show, or read the transcript.
I wanted to talk a bit more about Gravity [...]

Tags: captcha, contact forms, Email
Categories: WordPress

Press This: John Godley and Frederick Townes

Aug 19, 2009 Joost de Valk 8 comments

Last night was the night of the second episode of Press This, and I hadn't even found time to blog about the first one yet! The first show was with John Godley, of HeadSpace2 / Redirection and other plugin fame, this second one was with Frederick Townes, the CTO of Mashable.
In the show with John [...]

Tags: wordpress optimization, WordPress Plugins
Categories: WordPress

Multilingual and Multi Domain Sites in WordPress

Jul 17, 2009 Joost de Valk 53 comments

One of the things we're doing more and more of recently is building multilingual, multi domain corporate sites in WordPress. Doing that used to be a fair amount of work, but we've been able to make it a lot simpler lately.
We start the process with a simple WordPress MU install, to which we then add [...]

Tags: Wordpress Seo, WordPress Themes
Categories: WordPress

Adding Sites to Sociable

Jul 16, 2009 Joost de Valk 59 comments

While Sociable comes with a pretty large set of sites, there are always people that want to add their own. While this is pretty easy to do, you'd have to update the plugin every time it's updated, which is quite often, so that's not really a workable solution.
Today, I've fixed that. I've just submitted version [...]

Tags: WordPress Plugins
Categories: WordPress
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