When a blogging slump hits…

What do you do when you hit a blogging dry spell? Have you ever felt like you just didn’t have any good ideas for posts anymore… what was once a deep well of creativity has run dry? I’ve been feeling a bit like that lately. I knew it would happen. It...

The Best Contact Form Plugin for WordPress

Recently while working on a client site, I needed a contact form plugin that went beyond the very good, commonly used Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form. We needed something with the flexibility to add custom fields, etc. I found a most excellent solution in...

Show and Tell

I’ve been extremely busy for the last several months, working on many blog headers and custom themes. I haven’t had time to update my portfolio, but I thought I’d show off several of the sites I’ve worked on, and encourage you to pay them a...

A Basic Guide to WordPress Template Tags

Recently a reader asked how to add the time of a post to a theme, so I thought I would give a basic overview of WordPress template tags. This is one of those things that seems like it must be really complicated, but actually isn’t. What is a template tag?...

Are You a Link Whore?

Since the whole I Follow Movement thing last spring, there have been lists of blogs published with titles like “10 High PR I Follow Blogs” encouraging readers to visit and comment, and “be sure it doesn’t look too spammy or it might get...