David Wells http://www.davidwells.tv David Wells's Stie Sat, 05 May 2012 03:39:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Awesome WordPress Snippet to Debug and See all Custom Post Meta Elements http://www.davidwells.tv/awesome-wordpress-snippet-to-debug-and-see-all-custom-post-meta-elements/ http://www.davidwells.tv/awesome-wordpress-snippet-to-debug-and-see-all-custom-post-meta-elements/#comments Sat, 05 May 2012 03:39:43 +0000 David Wells http://www.davidwells.tv/?p=4314 Ran across this script earlier today.

It helped be see a huge list of custom post fields aka, wordpress post meta, to use in a WordPress Custom Post template.

Place it in the single.php or custom page template loop and you can echo out all of the available post variables.

<h3>All Post Meta</h3>

<?php $getPostCustom=get_post_custom(); // Get all the data ?>

<?php
    foreach($getPostCustom as $name=>$value) {

        echo "<strong>".$name."</strong>"."  =>  ";

        foreach($value as $nameAr=>$valueAr) {
                echo "<br />     ";
                echo $nameAr."  =>  ";
                echo var_dump($valueAr);
        }

        echo "<br /><br />";

    }
?>

I highly recommend saving it.

Once you echo out all of your custom post meta you can set up conditional logic like:

<?php if (get_post_meta($post->ID, 'landing_page_checkbox', true) == "") {
  echo "#menu {display:none;}"; } ?>

This code above is hiding my sites navigation is the custom meta box is checked.

]]> http://www.davidwells.tv/awesome-wordpress-snippet-to-debug-and-see-all-custom-post-meta-elements/feed/ 0 How to Seed & Build Facebook Fans for Your Facebook Business Page http://www.davidwells.tv/how-to-seed-build-facebook-fans-for-facebook-business-pages/ http://www.davidwells.tv/how-to-seed-build-facebook-fans-for-facebook-business-pages/#comments Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:15:57 +0000 David Wells http://www.davidwells.tv/?p=4263 Growing a Facebook community can be tough. It’s a long grueling process that takes time, effort, and elbow grease.

Most people throw in the towel after months of effort with no reward.

I’ve grown a number of facebook fan pages and I’m going to give you a quick tip to get the ball rolling.

Necessary Ingredients

To quickly seed fan page growth you will need the following:

  1. Firefox
  2. The Greasemonkey extension for Firefox
  3. Friends, coworkers, and family. (You have some combination of these hopefully.)

Step 1 – Install Greasemonkey for Firefox

Install the firefox extension greasemonkey. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/

Greasemonkey is an awesome tool that allows you to add functionality to popular websites via user contributed javascript snippets. In laymans terms, it makes the internet better.

I’d recommend researching a script before installing it, due to possible security issues.

The Facebook: InviteThemAll script works like a charm, I’ve tested and used it hundreds of times.

Step 2 – Install Facebook Invite Them All

The greasemonkey script we will be using is called Facebook: InviteThemAll and it does exactly what it says. Helps you invite all of your friends to like your fan page quickly and easily.

Instead of spending hours (not really but like 10+minutes) clicking every single check box, you can use greasemonkey + the facebook invite them all script to do it for you in 10 seconds.

This is helpful for sanity’s sake and to actually get your coworkers to invite their networks as well.

Step 3 – Invite Your Companies Collective Network

After you have installed greasemonkey and the Facebook Invite them all script in Firefox, Navigate to your facebook fan page and click on Invite Friends.

a. Select Your Entire Network

Hit the recent interactions dropdown menu and select “search all friends”

This will allow you to see your entire network

b. Use the added greasemonkey functionality to select all friends with one click

You will also notice the new select from friends option underneath the search box, this is what greasemonkey and the script has dynamically added into the page.

Click select on the new select all bar, wait for it to do it’s magic. It might take 30 seconds or so and it might also ask you to disable the running

c. If asked, continue the script.

Click continue and let the script finish

d. Click Submit and Invite your Network to join the conversation on your fan page

Submit and invite your network to like your Facebook Fan Page. Boom. Done.

Now that you have quickly invited your network to become a fan of your page, there is no reason to stop here. Pick up your laptop and walk around the office and ask your fellow coworkers to help by having them login quickly and repeating the process.

Most people will be glad to promote the company they work for through to their network. Those who refuse… fire them immediately (just kidding)

Just clearly explain to your coworkers that you are trying to jump start the growth on the facebook fan page in order to help drive more traffic into the site.

]]> http://www.davidwells.tv/how-to-seed-build-facebook-fans-for-facebook-business-pages/feed/ 0 How to Recover Your WordPress Site after a Plugin Install Goes Wrong http://www.davidwells.tv/how-to-recover-your-wordpress-site-after-a-plugin-install-goes-wrong/ http://www.davidwells.tv/how-to-recover-your-wordpress-site-after-a-plugin-install-goes-wrong/#comments Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:49:04 +0000 David Wells http://www.davidwells.tv/?p=4219 Sometimes shit happens, in all areas of life, and WordPress is not immune from the age old saying.

Every time you install a new plugin on your site, especially if it’s a third party plugin not from the WordPress repository you run the risk of seeing the infamous White Screen of Death and your wordpress installation breaking.

Not to panic though, you can fix this issue quickly and easily in a couple of steps.

Step 1 – Log into your FTP client and delete the plugin file or folder from your wp-content/plugins folder.

I use Filezilla as my FTP client to connect to my server. Here is a quick video showing you how to connected to your server to manage your wordpress files 

Once you find and delete the new plugin folder (or file) it will reset the site and automatically deactivate the plugin.

If you are updating an existing plugin and the site breaks, follow the above procedure by deleting the plugin from your wordpress wp-content/plugins folder and then re-upload the older working version of the plugin you were using.

You can see all the old versions of a wordpress plugin in the wordpress repository.

Step 2 – Download the older version of the plugin and upload it to your wp-content/plugins folder, then activate it

Once you upload the older version of the plugin back to your site, you can simply head into the plugins settings inside of wordpress and activate the older version.

The plugin will continue to prompt you to upgrade, DO NOT DO THAT. (unless you want to go through these steps again)

Until the conflicting plugin/code is fixed, you are going to want to hold off on upgrading it.

Typically plugin updates are done to add features, but if the update is concerning a security issue, you will want to consult with a wordpress ninja (or the plugin developer) to get the issue resolved.

How to Troubleshoot the issue

This post is purely meant to get your site back up and running as quickly as possible.

To troubleshoot exactly where and what is causing the conflict lies you will want to consult this post.

I also highly recommend you have daily/weekly backups running on your server and via a backup plugin,  just in case all hell breaks lose and you completely fry your wordpress installation.

Getting a fresh wordpress installation up and running is a pretty quick and simple process but without a backup of your database and your wp-content folder, you could be in trouble.

So, always have a backup of your wordpress databases and a copy of your wp-content folder. ***** This is important *****

]]> http://www.davidwells.tv/how-to-recover-your-wordpress-site-after-a-plugin-install-goes-wrong/feed/ 0 How To Quickly Find Sites to Guest Post on with Advanced Search Queries http://www.davidwells.tv/how-to-quickly-find-sites-to-guest-post-on-with-advanced-search-queries/ http://www.davidwells.tv/how-to-quickly-find-sites-to-guest-post-on-with-advanced-search-queries/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:15:35 +0000 David Wells http://www.davidwells.tv/?p=4170 Advanced search queries are your friend. Most people don’t know they exist and this is a travesty. If you are serious about winning at the internet you need to Learn about them.

Once you get a grasp of some advanced queries and are able to traverse Google searches with the swiftness of Jeremy Lin, you will be able to do some advanced SEO and internet marketing research that will blow your mind.

A recent advanced query I found while looking for places to contribute guest posts (aka grow inbound linkage & authority) is:

In a nutshell this query is a quick and easy way to help you find guest blog posts. Replace keyword with an industry specific keyword that works for you.

Why would you want to guest blog? Well it’s one of the best ways to Grow Inbound Links into your site and inbound links are the gold of the internet.

Finding Guest Posting Opportunities with inpostauthor:”guest author” keyword

Here is a quick example of me looking for sites to contribute content to that are focused on “Marketing”.

Rinse and repeat this method with whatever your industries main keywords are.

You might need to use broader terms if there is no blogs focused on Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis prevention.

Don’t Waste the Moment – Optimize Your Links in Guest Posts

When you are spending your valuable time contributing guest content to another site, DO NOT squander the opportunity to get a keyword specific anchor text link back into your site.

In the above example, Ann Smarty (a super smart SEO that I follow closely and you should too), is contributing a post on Makeuseof.com and in her author bio the anchor text back into her site is “SEO Consultant“. This is exactly how you would want it.

Good: SEO Consultant
Bad: http://seosmarty.com

Techincally both links count in terms of SEO authority passing into her domain but the keyword specific link helps send google a clear message that this page behind the link is associated with the keyword “SEO Consultant” and perhaps we should weight her site higher than others for this particular keyword.

There you have it! Go Google like a Pro.

For more handy SEO Search Queries check out: 10000 Search Engine Queries for your Link Building Campaign and my post on other queries I frequently use  to Grow Inbound Links via Guest Blogging Opportunities

Try out my new twitter search app!
]]> http://www.davidwells.tv/how-to-quickly-find-sites-to-guest-post-on-with-advanced-search-queries/feed/ 1 3 Ways to Get Even More From Your Buffer App http://www.davidwells.tv/3-ways-to-get-more-from-buffer-and-ifttt/ http://www.davidwells.tv/3-ways-to-get-more-from-buffer-and-ifttt/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:04:31 +0000 David Wells http://www.davidwells.tv/?p=4145 It is no secret, I’m a huge fan of the service Buffer. I tweet about it constantly and I use it for most of the content I share through twitter.

If you aren’t familiar with Buffer, the service lets you stagger out tweets to go out at specified times rather than whenever you are reading the content. I typically do my blog reading in chunks and will have about 5 to 6 different posts I want to share but don’t want to take the time to schedule them out or I’m on a mobile device where scheduling tweets is painful.

Buffer was the solution. It lets me reach my audience at peak traffic times and not over-tweet my followers at any one time.

I recently discovered an app called ifttt, that enabled me to supercharge Buffer, amongst other web services, to the next level.

Using Buffer and Ifttt together can help you streamline a ton of tedious social media minutia, get shit done, and get back to your day.

Below are the top 3 Recipes I’ve found to make Ifttt and Buffer a dynamic duo.

Ifttt Puts the internet and Buffer to work for you

Ifttt, short for “if this then that”, is a magical web services that allows you to tie together a myriad of web services that you use on a daily basis and puts them to work for you.

You can then mashup a number of web services without having to know anything about code at all via the premade recipes in ifttt.

One of the services, or channels as they call them, that ifttt can mashup with is your buffer account. Yipee!

There is a growing number of buffer recipes on ifttt, but I’m just going to cover the most useful ones that I have found and use on a regular basis.

Buffer Recipe # 1 – Every tweet I favorite gets added to my buffer

This recipe is super handy for quickly and easily adding tweets to my buffer while on the go.

Enabling this recipe means that anytime you favorite a tweet, be it on the web or via any mobile twitter client, it automgaically gets added into your buffer.

http://ifttt.com/recipes/10653

Buffer Recipe # 2 – Feed an RSS through Buffer and Spam less

This ifttt recipe will allow you to feed an rss feed through to your buffer account to stagger out the posts to peak times.

I’ve set this up for blog rss feeds and for a custom yahoo pipe that aggregates a number of sites I read.

http://ifttt.com/recipes/8512

Buffer Recipe # 3 – Feed an RSS through Buffer and Spam less

This recipe I made myself (*pat on back*). With it, any tweet that I send out with the hastag #RT will get added to my buffer to be sent out in a couple of days.

Very handy for automatically re-sharing some content (like this post) that I spent time creating at a later date to get the most leverage out of it.

I choose the #RT in the hopes that people would also retweet the post.

The great thing about all of the recipes in ifttt is that you can customize any of the steps, which means you can change the hashtag to whatever you want.

http://ifttt.com/recipes/23065

 Do You Use Buffer or Ifttt? If not…. What is stopping you?

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I’ve been piecing together the list over the last 4 years and I was finally inspired to post it after reading WPMU’s 100 – The Top WordPress Related Blogs On The Internet. (read their post)

So if you are interested in learning more about how WordPress works or how to improve your site you can follow the entire list here or pick and choose from the list below.

I highly recommend you check out their profiles and sites. Killer stuff down there!

If you have other WordPress related twitter accounts that are a must follow, let me know in the comments down below or Tweet at me @DavidWells.

Jean-Baptiste Jung – @catswhocode
Web developer, WordPress user, blogger, entrepreneur, born-again Christian, vegetarian and animal rights supporter.

Follow @catswhocode

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DynamicWP – @dynamicwp
Developing beautiful WordPress Themes and Plugins

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WordPress Beginner – @wpbeginner
WPBeginner offers tips, tools, resources, and suggestions to #WordPress Users. If you are a WordPress User, then you should stay updated with our tweets.

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LabZip – @WPLabZip
Everything WordPress in One Place!

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c.bavota – @bavotasan
c.bavota is a web developer from Montreal. He’s into this and that.

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David Wells – @DavidWells
Founder of ConvertSocial.com | Inbound Marketing Consultant @Hubspot | Host of http://InboundNow.tv | Fanatical WordPress Designer & Developer.

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Michael Fields – @_mfields
I am a Theme Wrangler at @automattic. Do not click follow unless you totally geek-out on WordPress :) https://github.com/mfields

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Takashi Irie – @TakashiIrie
Living in Brighton, UK. I am a Theme Wrangler at Automattic. I love Jackin’ house music as much as WordPress.

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Michelle – @michiecat
I’m a Theme Wrangler for Automattic. I love cute animals, singing, astronomy and warm, sunny weather.

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Philip Arthur Moore – @philip_arthur
United States-born, Hanoi-based expatriate. WordPress Theme Wrangler at @Automattic. Music lover. Chocoholic.

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Lance Willett – @simpledream
Outdoorsman, polyglot, second-culture kid, and recovering RVer. WordPress theme developer for Automattic.

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Matías Ventura – @bausero
I am a designer, student of philosophy and film director. I am a Theme Wrangler at Automattic.

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Envato WP – @EnvatoWP
The world’s best WordPress tutorials site.

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wptavern – @wptavern
Official account for the WPTavern website

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Jeff Starr – @perishable
Web developer & graphic designer at Perishable Press and Monzilla Media. Co-Author of Digging into WordPress. WordPress Editor at Smashing Magazine.

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Chris Coyier – @chriscoyier
Lead Hucklebucker.

Master Cascader.

Head Tag Closer.

@Wufoo

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Six Revisions – @sixrevisions
Six Revisions is a website that publishes practical and useful articles for designers and web developers, maintained by Jacob Gube.

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WPZOOM – @wpzoom
We Create Professional & Impressive WordPress Themes That Work. Follow our co-founders: @ciorici & @dumitru

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Paul Andrew – @speckyboy
Speckyboy Design Magazine is a web and graphic design blog run by Paul Andrew

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Joost de Valk – @yoast
I build & tweak websites for performance, SEO and conversion, often using my WordPress plugins. Blogger, speaker & podcaster. Live in NL with wife and 3 kids.

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Cristian Antohe – @sareiodata
Web-designer working mostly with WordPress. Also I’m a cofunder of http://reflectionmedia.ro and I curate http://wpmail.me

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ManageWP – @managewp
Make managing multiple WordPress blogs easier with ManageWP.com.

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Mike Durkin – @Solostream
Premium WordPress themes for small business and individual bloggers.

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BloggingPro – @blpro
BloggingPro is one of the oldest news sites around blogs, WordPress and other blogging platforms

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WordPress Hacks – @HackWordPress

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WPLift – @wplift
WPLift is a blog all about WordPress, we cover tips & tutorials, theme & plugin reviews and everything else related to our favourite CMS.

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pingable – @pingable
We Blog about everything WordPress

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Alex Denning – @AlexDenning
Nerdy music type.

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ThemeShock – @themeshock
Super high quality free design resources for wordpress and web professionals.

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Ryan Hellyer – @ryanhellyer
Web entrepreneur. Founder PixoPoint web development.

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Devin Price – @devinsays
Web developer and WordPress aficionado living in Austin, Texas.

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Spelling and Grammar – @AtDdev
After the Deadline: an open source spelling, grammar, & style checker for WordPress & Firefox. Brought to you by the folks at Automattic.

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Wp Arena – @wparena
WordPress Arena is growing hot spot for WordPress Developers and Designers, free and useful online resources for them.

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WP Mods – @WPMods
WPMods is a WordPress blog which focuses on WordPress Themes, Plugins and Modifications. It also features the latest WordPress news and views.

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Nile Flores – @blondishnet
Sassy blonde mom from Illinois. WordPress Web & Graphic Designer. WordCamp Conference speaker (8x.) I also help people rock their sites out at Blondish.net

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WPWebHost – @wpwebhost
Best WordPress Hosting Experience with our new Total class=’span3′ style=’margin-left: 5px !important;’d WordPress Hosting Made for WordPress User by WPWebHost.

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Michael Martin – @problogdesign
Web designer, specialising in blog design. Which I blog about. :)

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Olaf Lederer – @finalwebsites
Web developer likes PHP code, blogs, Social Media and Google!

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Austin ☃ Passy – @TheFrosty
Los Angeles WordPress developer. Organizer of @WordCampLA, Dodgers season ticket holder, developer of @fxthemes and more..

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WordPress Podcast – @wppodcast
Exclusive interviews with WordPress developers, topics such as WordPress hosting and SEO, and news on the latest plugins and updates. Hosted by @yoast & @w3edge

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Adam W. Warner – @wpprobusiness
Teaching individuals and businesses how to use WordPress and take control of their presence online by creating and managing their own websites or blogs.

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TricksDaddy – @TricksDaddy
I’m a Freelancer and Full time Blogger from Chandigarh, India.

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Brad Vincent – @themergency
We love #WordPress and you should too! We are interested in all WordPress plugins and themes, and sometimes write a few ourselves.

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WPSNIPP – @wpsnipp
We Tweet interesting #snippets of #Wordpress #code everyday, with over 560 unique snippets.

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Rilwis – @rilwis
Web/WordPress Developer

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Dave Clements – @daclements
Editor of Do It With WordPress • Web Designer at The UK Edge • General lover of WordPress • Efficiency nazi • Sushi fan • Husband • Friend • Brit • Geek

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WebDesign.com – @WebDesignCom
Official WebDesign.com twitter channel. Premium Training for Web Design & Development for WordPress.

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Regina Smola – @WPSecurityLock
#WordPress Security tips for safer blogging & important #security news about #internetsecurity, #socialmedia, #onlinesafety, #cybercrime, #infosec and #hosting.

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Ben Cook – @wpblogger
WordPress Addict

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Page.ly – @Pagely
WordPress-as-a-Service. class=’span3′ style=’margin-left: 5px !important;’d WordPress Hosting w/ automatic upgrades & backups. Secure like Fort Knox. Powered by Grey Goose.

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Neil Matthews – @wpdude
WPDUDE aka Neil Matthews, please note I am using nmatthews now not wpdude as my twitter moniker

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WP Mayor – @wpmayor
WordPress Hacks, Tutorials, Plugin Reviews and more. We also do WordPress blog/site development.

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BlogOhBlog – @BlogOhBlog
I am the blogger you were looking for!

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ZippyKid – @thezippykid
We are the leading provider of Fast, Secure, and Stable WordPress websites. Your WordPress site will load 3X faster if you host with us. Guaranteed.

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Noel Tock – @noeltock
Founder of @happytables / WordPress Developer / Passionate about Charities & developing the Swiss WordPress community.

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Boba – @wpcanyon
WordPress developer. Check out the portfolio http://themeforest.net/user/WPScientist/portfolio

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Latest on WordPress – @LatestOnWP
Find the latest happenings on WordPress’s Tutorials, Themes, Plugins, and more. LatestWP is your daily WordPress one stop!

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WPKube – @wpkube
WPKube – Primarily focuses on WordPress Tutorials, Hacks, WP Tricks & Tips, Best WordPress themes, plugins and much more.

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Bob Dunn – @bobWP
WordPress trainer, social media fanatic, blogger, networker, optimistic fool, Loves Fawlty Towers + LOL comedies. Organizer: Seattle WordPress Meetup & WordCamp

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Themegrounds – @Themegrounds
Theme reviews, inspiration, tutorials and more.

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Benjamin Bradley – @benjaminbradley
WordPress glutton, domain name collector, Libertarian who wants less govt, volunteer firefighter, and the ‘professor’ at WebDesign.com

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WP Roots – @wproots
We enjoy to the finer things in life. That’s why we create only the finest WordPress Tutorials.

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WordPress Rockers – @wprockers
Solid WordPress stuffs; nothing else.

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Write Click Hosting – @writeclickhost
Websites For The Creative Class. Beautiful. Affordable. Empowering. Founder: @jeremyleejames

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VoodooPress – @wpVoodooPress
VoodooPress is The Voodoo Empire’s site for WordPress fun. Support, help, hacks, customizing, ….. we have it all! Follow my personal tweets @RVoodoo as well!

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wpLifeGuard – @wpLifeguard
Learn how to use WordPress through our video tutorials.

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WP Themes News – @wpthemesnews
All the buzz about Free and Premium WordPress Themes

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WordPress Tutor – @wp_tutor
WordPress tutor and coach. Stop by my site for 100s of WordPress Tutorials and WordPress videos.

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Dustin Hartzler – @dhartzler10
WordPress Web Developer who is obsessed with Apple gadgets and learning through books & podcasts. | I create modern, stylish & engaging website. What do you do?

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Total Bounty – @totalbounty
Total Bounty is a digital marketplace for buyers and sellers of HTML templates, WordPress themes and plugins, PSD files, graphics, ebooks, and more!

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WpDezign.com – @wpdezign
The best wordpress news, videos on the web as voted on by the WordPress community. Breaking news on Development, Design, Interviews and more!

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WP TOY – @wptoy
WP TOY is a weblog about any WordPress related

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Jon Bishop – @JonDBishop
Web Developer at @AMP_Agency in Boston, MA. I love WordPress / my jeep wrangler / my guitar and my awesome gf (@monkelley)

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John Eckman – @jeckman
Digital Strategist at ISITE Design, WordCamp Boston Organizer, WPBook plugin developer, Drupal advocate, Blogger, Open source evangelist, Vegan.

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mitcho – @themitcho
linguist, coder, teacher. MIT Linguistics PhD student, open web fan, @AwesomeBos trustee. Friend of @Mozilla, @Automattic. photo Hrayr Khanjian, bg by @nacin

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Kurt Eng – @kurteng
Full-time scientist, part-time tech support, part-time video-gamer, part-time cook, part-time WordPress guy, full-time geek

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Free WordPress Sites – @WordpressMotif
Hundreds of Free WordPress Themes. We will help you set up wordpress sites for free. Contact us today! =)

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FreelanceWP.com – @FreelanceWP
Collecting all the best #WordPress Jobs, Links, Themes + Resources for Designers, Developers + Bloggers.

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WordPress Jedi – @wpblackbelt
Everything WordPress. Best WordPress themes, plugins, and tips

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Dougal Campbell – @dougal
Web developer, PHP and Perl programmer, WordPress ‘Developer Emeritus’, creator of @twitual, family man, husband of @suzecampbell, and hoopy frood.

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WPExplorer – @WPExplorer
Checkout MY ThemeForest WordPress Themes at: http://www.wpexplorer.com/wpexplorer-tf

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Brian Krogsgard – @Krogsgard
Be warned, I tweet about WordPress a lot. I write / talk about it at @WPCandy. I’m the Lead WordPress Developer @infomediadotcom. Personal account is @bkrogs

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We make WordPress fast, secure, and scalable by hosting your site on our rock solid platform.

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Keep up to date with the latest WordPress.tv content, or feed us your top tips for future screenings :)

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We’re a blog about WordPress. Yes, we realize how crazy meta that is.

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A WordPress resource by @themezip @imTerryim. Get into the Culture!

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WP-Snippets provides useful hack, tips and tutorials to create a better #WordPress theme.

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Entrepreneur & Principal at Modal Machine, Boston WordPress Meetup founder, musician and wannabe blogger.

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I’m a WordPress.com Theme Wrangler for the ever-awesome Automattic. I’m probably thinking about WordPress themes right this very minute.

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I recently filled up my 50gb account (99.8% full to be exact) and need to either upgrade or do some house cleaning.

As we all know, shifting through directories for BA (Big Ass) files is not a fun task and can consume valuable time.

Enter WinDirStat.

After some googling I managed to find a useful free program called WinDirStat, that allows you to scan and visualize all of your files on your computer.

I will show you in 3 quick steps how to scan your drives, find the big ass files to move/delete, and keep sane in the process.

1. Scan Your Drives

Select which drives you want to scan.

2. Visualize the size of Folders & Files

The cool thing about WinDirStat is it will order the sub folders in your dropbox by size, so you can easily drill down into your different folders and get rid of those massive files or save them locally.

3. Delete

This one video of my interview with Steve Garfield was taking up a precious 2.3 GB of my dropbox! We can’t have that, can we?

In about 8 minutes I manged to get my 50gb full dropbox down to around 32gb of space.

 

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It’s Official, Carter and Olivia have been chosen as finalists in the Oceana “Oceans Hero” Award (CLICK HERE TO CAST YOUR VOTE).  We are so excited and honored.  There were apparently hundreds of nominations from all over the country and the judges picked 6 adults and 6-kids as their finalists.

Many of you had submitted your nominations on behalf of Carter and Olivia and we are very grateful for all the support.  Now it’s time to rally all our supporters and ask that everyone consider casting their votes.  All the finalist deserve to win.  Each one is doing amazing work and we are so proud to even be considered as a finalist.

We are asking everyone to take a few seconds and follow this link to the voting page and after reading the accomplishments of all the kids and adult groups, that you please cast your vote for your favorite finalist.  You have the ability to vote for your favorite kid and for your favorite adult.  Oceana will announce the winner of each category in early June.  Overseas supporters wishing to cast a vote for Olivia and Carter should enter the following zip code (30215) since the system does not recognize non-US postal codes.

Since starting OMG, Olivia and Carter have been actively working towards making a difference with regards to our oceans.  From collecting Animal Rescue Supplies after the Gulf Oil Spill to help save the many sea birds and sea turtles caught-up in the mess, to lobbying for support from our Congressman Lynn Westmoreland for the H.R.-14 Ocean Acidification Act, to raising awareness about the horrible Shark Finning which kills an estimated 75-100 million sharks every year, to launching their “Say No To Plastic Bags” Coalition in and effort to help America reduce their dependancy on Single-Use Plastic Bags which end up sitting in our landfills for over 500-years and clog our streams and oceans.  Each year an estimated 1-Million Sea birds and over 100,000 Marine Mammals die from ingesting plastic pollution.

Carter and Olivia know that many of these problems will not be solved overnight, but they also know that unless you start, none of these problems will ever go away.  They work hard to make this world a better place for us… and for all of God’s creatures.  We hope you will take the time to vote for your favorite Ocean Hero and that you too will help make a difference for the future.

Also, if you have not already done so, please “Follow” us on Twitter (@1moregeneration) and “Like” us on Facebook so we can keep up with all that you are doing and so you can see what Olivia and Carter are up too as well.

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Photo by ED BLOCHOWIAK

As an event planning professional, I have seen all types of non-profit fundraisers. Some I have produced myself, and others I have helped organize for other groups.

There are many things to consider when putting together a non profit fundraising event. Sometimes you can control the situation, and sometimes you can’t.

Some of the biggest factors that add to the cost of events are:

Venue- Try to find an offbeat venue that is cheaper. Look for school district facilities such as a gym or hall, universities, and club halls tend to be less expensive than a hotel. A great source for finding a good venue is http://www.uniquevenues.com/

Catering- If you are having a fundraising meal, try to find cheaper alternatives for food. Meat is the most expensive thing that adds to the cost of catering. Choose cheaper options such as pasta or vegetarian dishes, or less meat oriented dishes such as spaghetti or lasagna. Steak and lobster aren’t necessary for a nice dinner. You can choose chicken instead. Here is a link to a great article, which supports this point.

Time of Day- Usually dinner is the most expensive time of day to rent a facility, and it’s also the most expensive to feed people at. If food is expected at the event, perhaps you should make it at an odd time of the day, in between meals. So you are only expected to serve light refreshments. Take the focus off the food, and put it into the actual event such as the 5K Run, or the Guest Speaker for the event.

Seek Donations- Often you can solicit donations of food to support your event from local bakeries, local farmers, local grocers and so on

Be Green- Not only is it great for the environment, but being green is a great way to save money as well. You don’t need to send out paper invites, use technology. Eventbrite and Evite are great sources to spread the word, (and you can use Social Media to send links) without the extra cost of postage and printing. Nowadays Evite and Eventbrite are linked to your social media accounts.

Scour Online- Ebay and Craigslist are great ways to find gently used tablecloths, vases and decor items. When I was planning my wedding in 2008, for example, I used Craigslist and found some great deals on tablecloths and vases. Then after the wedding, I recouped my money by selling them again!

Just remember, you don’t need a big budget to have a special event. Use your networking skills to get donations, and find things others may be willing to sell for a discount.

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New Zealand with a population of about 4.7 million, has been reeling since news of the quake. Christchurch one of the main cities, with a population of around 500,000 was getting back to normal after an earthquake on the 4th of September 2010.

The earthquake of 22 February struck as people were on their lunch break -12:51pm, and has caused a large section of the central business district to be shut down by cordons as police and rescue workers from across the globe search for survivors.

It’s fairly much acknowledged that there’s only a remote chance that people will now be pulled live from the rubble, but the search goes on. A search being done by New Zealand’s own police and rescue personnel, and with the support from international agencies from Australia, the USA, Japan, China, the UK and other countries.

New Zealand has stepped in and helped with disaster across the globe for years, and the offers of support New Zealand has received at this time have been overwhelming; something the whole country appreciates and is humbled by.

Christchurch, will take years to recover from this disaster, and all of New Zealand are feeling the loss that the city has had, and the losses it will face for years to come.

It has been great to see support coming from both national and international agencies.  Then there’s the support through local, small organisations and communities which is just as great – bake sales, garage sales, items are being posted on local internet trading site TradeMe. Retailers are donating the proceeds of sales of goods, and

Community groups the length and breadth of the country are holding events, fundraisers or other activities to raise support and help for the people of Christchurch.

Mums and dads are opening their homes to strangers, offering a bed, meals and other support to people displaced by the quake. People have posted on Twitter that they couldn’t bear the continued aftershocks and just wanted out – which has been met with offers of airfares and accommodations.

Businesses unrelated to Christchurch have been offering to take on work, others have been offering office space – all out of the goodness of their heart.

Social agencies are pulling together to help, people in Christchurch are humbled, and thankful for the support they’ve been offered; money, food, clothing, accommodation.

The local student population have again posted on Facebook for volunteers to help with the clean up, with over 15,000 people signing up to help – help such as shovelling silt, helping people move precious belongings; anything that they can help with, they will.

FundraiseOnline a local online fundraising facility has stepped in and helped the NZ Red Cross by setting up a fundraising page to help take some of the strain off the Red Cross website, individuals have been using their own resources to tweet and post on their FaceBook pages with the aim to raise support.

Local telephone providers are offering free phone calls so as to allow those in Christchurch to contact loved ones.

People in the nearby area of Rangiora are assisting with the preparation and distribution of food through Rangiora Express – food is being prepare then sent to where it’s needed by helicopter – this is now facing an uncertain future as funds are desperately needed to keep the helicopters in the air.

Christchurch is a tourist destination, with many tourists from throughout the world caught up in the devastation.

The iconic ChristChurch Cathedral which has been devastated is likely to hold the bodies of at least 20 tourists who were inside at the time of the quake.

The international student population hasn’t been left unscathed with students caught in a collapsed building – some who had only just started classes days before the earthquake. The students are from Japan, China, the Philippines, Korea and other countries.

Through the death and destruction, comes flickers of hope; unity in times of turmoil, when help is needed, hands are held out; Christchurch will need ongoing help from local, national and international agencies over the weeks, months and perhaps years to come.

We as a country are grateful for the support we’ve been receiving from around the globe; and I ask you to please help where and how you can, if you see a collection box, or are able to make a donation through any of your local groups or organisations, please do.

When disaster strikes, no matter where in the world you are, be assured that the connections you have, the friends you have will tap into their resources to help; they will hear you in your time of need and use their networks to help, and where possible New Zealand will be there to help where it can.

We’re a global community and as a community we need to do all we can to offer support. The New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key, has launched a global fundraising appeal – the need for help is so great that all avenues are being used to raise awareness and help.

If there’s anything you can do to help, we’d appreciate it, spread the word among your connections. When you need help I’ll be watching to see how I can help.

Image: Courtesy of mattinbgn

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