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UPDATE: I’ve caused a ton of confusion with this page and I have taken it down while I re-write the copy As a complement to my by the hour services that I have been offering for a number of years, I have decided to build a number of packaged solutions to help solve a number of common WordPress issues If you check out my new services page you can see what I plan to offer as well as my by the hour support. I’m going to do mini launches of each new service so as not to overwhelm people, this […]

About three months ago I stopped offering one-on-one hourly WordPress coaching services so I could concentrate on building up my team of “techies” to help service the wordpress technical support side of my business. I was not happy about this, I love working one on one with people like this,  but I needed to concentrate on building that side of my business. Now that I have built my team and it is running very smoothly I am re-opening the coaching side of my business, but with a difference. I will no longer be offering hourly consulting instead I’ll be working […]

I’m stepping away from WordPress in this post, I hope you don’t  mind, I want to talk about twitter for a moment. Your WordPress site is probably acting as a hub with spokes connecting your social media profiles at twitter, Facebook et al so the link is not that tenuous. I want to explore why I think twitter search or search.twittter.com could be one of the most important tools for businesses to find new leads and monitor customer satisfaction. Search.Twitter.Com Search.twitter.com allows you to perform a search on the live twitter stream. What’s the big deal about that, and why […]

Over the holiday period I ran a sale and dropped the price of my wordpress technical support services to get past the notoriously slow period throughout November and December. This is a quick post to say I will be raising my hourly rate back to the normal price point very soon. If you want to lock in a block booking of time at my sale price rate now is the time to do it. I’m selling packages of time which you can buy now and call down at any time during this year in increments of 20 minutes. The Package […]

Here’s a very hand little plugin for you, it’s called widget logic http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/ and it lets you control where or when a particular sidebar widget is displayed by adding some conditional logic to the widget config. WTF Give me Some Examples It’s probably easier to use examples to explain what the plugin can do: You may only want an email sign up widget to appear on the home page You may only want your twitter link to display on a blog post not a page You may want your categories widgets to appear on your contact page (running out of […]