We’ve got a lot of friends using WordPress (WP) these days, and many have a question or two.
I’ve spoken with folks who wish they could sit down with their peers and see how they use WP, I’ve also talked with people who wish they could just run their site more smoothly.
Well I think it would be helpful to get a group together, have a website with links to all the best plugins and have answers to common questions and help a group out.
If this idea appeals to you, please fill out the survey below so I can work out a plan.
We’ve been pretty quiet at Focus Web Works lately.
This is partly because of projects and partly because our awesome clients have asked for some research and development.
If you missed it, we wrapped up the Ed Slott project in November: edslottintucson.com
We built a support site for a big client, Event Driven Media Partners: eventdrivenmedia.org
We’ve also added a new slide show for Tucson’s Golden Corral’s specials and community service: tucsongoldencorral.com
We’ve been busy updating press releases and updating staffing pages for DeConcini McDonald Yetwin & Lacy, P.C.: deconcinimcdonald.com
On The development side, we’ve been collaborating with software developers to create one of the best survey and quiz tools/plugins for WordPress. WP Survey And Quiz Tool: It’s become a very robust tool to add value to WP sites.
We have also been leaning some sophisticated new features for WordPress 3.0+, so it’s been pretty exciting.
If you spend any time in your WordPress site, you may have noticed that version 3.2 is available for an update.
If your website uses a slideshow/slider, this update will probably break it. Right after testing the new version on our Focus Web Works site, I upgraded one of our clients. The first thing we noticed (after the cool new look for the dashboard) was that her slideshow stopped working.
I’ve since done quite a bit of research and discovered that most slideshow/slider plugins are not working.
One more thing… It turns out that the WordPress developers group has decided to sunset Internet Explorer 6.0. This means that you should avoid upgrading if a large portion of your clients use IE 6.
If either of these situations are a concern for you, we recommend that you wait on that upgrade or at least contact us about your options.
I built this for a presentation last week, but I’ve had lots of requests to see it again. This is a demonstration of how a web site is built using WordPress.
WordPress has been updated again. This time with some interesting new features.
Really there are two keys that will make managing you site easier.
1. Vastly easier linking within a site
2. A handy administrator bar to speed navigation while updating a site
There are also hundreds of minor improvements under the hood, but item 1 and 2 above are the ones that will help you out every day.
New intra site link example
I found a nice explanation of how to use the new linking feature here. Basically when you are editing a page or a post, you can easily highlight a word or picture, click on link and then search your own site for a post or a page to link to. Click! and you’re done.
The other helpful addition is an administrator bar that stays at the top of the screen while working on your site. This is really handy when you are reviewing the pages of your site and you want to jump in and edit a page, or just straight to the dashboard, or even review comments left on your site.
I might note that the Admin bar seems to have redraw issues with Google chrome. It draws the bar on the screen multiple times.
If you wish for introductory help with WordPress help, here are some helpful videos and online help documents. Note: we just added help with adding images. Not everyone wants to look for help on this feature
If you would like to see help on other topics, please notify info@focusww.com
Focus Web Works is committed to empowering customers. With that in mind, I am very excited to share our latest service innovation: A whole site full of dedicated training videos to help you be more productive on your own schedule and at your own pace.
As if that isn’t enough, I am also working on a series of other tutorials to help with specific tasks in the cpanel file manager and using WordPress. So don’t forget to check back often
We’ve got a lot of friends using WordPress (WP) these days, and many have a question or two.
