I’ve done this enough times to figure out how to do it without screwing everything up. Suppose you start a project on a free WordPress.com, and, as it grows, you want to move it to a self-hosted platform version of WordPress, like I did with this site and NEast Philly and my thesis and others. [...]

Image of Old City Philadelphia cobblestone courtesy of Flickr user IceNineJon. In the future, this project leads to: Open source platform for other regionally-grouped niche sites to come together. Community-edited profiles of local focus and meaning (i.e. city government lobbyists, community associations presidents and other leaders who might otherwise remain anonymous) A cross-platform tool that [...]

Today, Technically Philly has announced its directory. Directories are normally pretty boring. We think ours won’t be. It’s certainly a small step, but, leveraging WordPress custom taxonomies with some incredible thinking power of Sean Blanda and plenty of sweat equity from myself and Brian James Kirk, we have launched pages for the nearly 1,000 companies [...]

I use a lot of WordPress themes. Here are some I might like to give a go in 2010. Number of Views:479

I spent portions of a couple school years while at college helping get a newspaper underway at the Franklin Learning Center, a strong, diverse magnet school in the Spring Garden neighborhood of Philadelphia. So, I was excited to take some time away from my freelancing work once a week to work with the journalism club [...]

There are oodles of WordPress themes, and I’ve gotten the chance to play with the backend of more than a few. While I wouldn’t want anyone to go and brand on the same theme, I do like the idea of showing folks how top flight products can take hold on little more than a template. [...]

One of the very obvious and very frustrating results of transitioning from my WordPress.com hosted professional site to this beauty is the loss of all that Google juice. While it is certainly nothing for the record books, the old version of this site was very steadily growing its traffic, at a healthy 7,259 page views [...]

In the late 1990s, a host of Web sites democratized the Internet, giving the average Internet-user the chance to have his own online home. In 2003, MySpace used the model and brought in a new age of social networking. Last week I posted that MySpace is on the way out, and briefly mentioned that WordPress [...]