If you’re a busy person, you don’t need to be managing a mailing list in one place and sending newsletters from another. I’ve spent much time recently migrating lists from email address books and contact management programs to online emailing services, so this article is written from that perspective and after much experimenting and experience with a number of the most popular email marketing services, I’ve decided to stick with MailChimp for the time being, since they currently offer the most options for the least money (not to mention great customer service).
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Comparing apples to oranges. Over the years I’ve installed and tried out countless CMS, CRM and similar applications, usually open source. In the end, I’ve usually come back to Wordpress for a whole variety of reasons, the biggest being my need for multi-linguality and client ease-of-use. I am still learning Expression Engine which I like very much but for me, the tradeoff between these two is that overall I find Wordpress easier to understand both in the backend and from a theme design standpoint.
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Trying out a Wordpress post from my new iPhone.
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In the search for a jQuery “slider” (made popular by the nice one at http://panic.com) for a client’s WordPress installation, I decided to give EasySlider a try. After QUITE a bit of tinkering I was able to integrate it into the site and there were moments I thought the plugin ought to be entitled NotSoEasySlider, which is a greater reflection on how WordPress made it a bit complicated than on the great work by the author, Alen Grakalic!
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I spent nearly 2 solid days trying to figure out why the latest posts on one of my clients’ sites were not showing up in the “popup preview” provided by email marketing site MailChimp. I love http://MailChimp.com, but this had me stumped and my eyes were beginning to cross. I had already spent countless hours learning how to create a custom RSS feed, template and query in Wordpress (future, much bigger article).
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This article will show you how to create custom category templates that are automatically used when specific categories are selected from the site menu, via a conditional statement in the category.php file. While it is possible to have categories default to using a custom template named with the category number (i.e. category-12.php), this is a [...]
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In my search for a way to : a) easily generate a list of a large number of PDF documents in a folder on the server; b) automatically show links to each document for easy download, and of course c) display this within a WordPress Page or Post (whew!), I discovered the WP Include File [...]
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I’ve been looking high and low, for a client, to find some way to easily upload and link to PDF documents. I came across the Apture plugin for WordPress, which interfaces with the Apture website (http://apture.com) and lets you pick from uploaded documents of all types (multi-media, pdf, xls, pp, etc.). Click on the sample [...]
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I’m into my second year of using open source survey software Lime Survey to manage voting for one of my client projects. If you don’t know about it, stop by http://limesurvey.org and check it out. In addition to a downloadable, self-installed version for your server, they have begun to offer a hosted version and will [...]
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Link: Easily Show The Contents of Password Fields » Raymond.CC Blog Turns out that there’s a way to do it. No software required, the result is immediate and it is shockingly easy to reveal the hidden password.
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