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Feb
09

The iAssistant Is Getting A New Look

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A few months ago, I joined Lateral Action: Creativity + Productivity = Success. Then I joined Sonia Simon’s Remarkable Marketing Blueprint. Most recently, I joined Third Tribe Marketing.And now, I am different, and my business is different. It’s hard to explain what has changed, but I’ll try. I’m more focused. I have ideas, lots of them. I have a plan to carry out my ideas. I have a community to mentor me and offer advice. All three websites are alike, and yet very different. I highly recommend them all.

So, I need a new look to go with my new ideas and have asked Pamela Wilson – Big Brand System (also a 3rd Triber) to design the logo for my new site: My WP Works. It is forthcoming toward the end of this week.

Part of what I have found is that I enjoy working with WordPress sites, and more specifically WordPress plugins, so hence the move to my new URL – My WordPress Works. Because of trademark legalities, I did not use the full WordPress name in the URL, only the first letters, as requested by Matt Mullenweg.

Another change: after working with Lateral Action, Remarkable Marketing Blueprint, and most recently, Third Tribe Marketing, I find  myself in love with Thesis and have purchased it for my new look. While I enjoy the different themes I’ve purchased from iThemes, I think Thesis will work best for my new look.

Thesis is installed and active at My WP Works, but the site is anything but complete, so if you decide to visit now, do so with the intention of coming back in a month to see the final product. Looking at it now will be good experience if you want to see a makeover in progress!

To return to the original focus of my blog, my next posts will chronicle the plugins that transition from this site to My WP Works. The Hard, The Easy, and The Impossible!

Aug
31

WordPress Plugins

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WordPress PluginsIs it just me, or do you find WordPress plugins difficult to install?

Yesterday I was searching for a social media plugin that would work in a widget. I Googled for a plugin and searched the WordPress repository. All in all, I downloaded and installed no less than five, yes five, plugins. None of them worked.
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Jul
21

My WordPress Journey

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WordpressHello Everyone!

Welcome to my WordPress journey. It actually started almost two years ago, but the thought came to me a couple of weeks ago that I should journal about my experiences as I learn and grow with WordPress. In September of 2007, a friend asked, “Have you ever used WordPress“? And I answered, “What is WordPress”? It was obvious I needed help.  So, he began showing me the WordPress dashboard. I think back then it was version 2.5 or even earlier. I remember looking at all the buttons and gadgets and thinking, “I will never learn this”. Well, I learned that and much more.
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