The wp-pear-debug brings a few handy debugging tools to Worpdress. If you’re not working in an IDE with full-fledged debugging, this is a must have for any Wordpress developer.

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Everyone has their favorite Wordpress Plugins. Here are some of my favorites.

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So I’ve been using WebEnabled lately. If you don’t know it, Webenabled is a service that lets you build sandbox environments for tons of open source apps (Drupal, WordPress, CivicCRM and many many more) and gives you all kinds of tools – version control, site cloning, and more. One of the killer tools is Deploy, [...]

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Validation, fixed width, fixed fonts, javascript OH MY! What matters when evaluating a theme for my Wordpress or Drupal site?

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WordPress is pretty good off the shelf, but there are some things that are a bit annoying or sub-optimal. For the basics of getting the major kinks out, there are some excellent videos. Matt Cutts, the head of search quality at Google, has a nice overview on how to make the most of WordPress. Tubetorial [...]

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So you’ve read WordPress Setup Part 1 and setup WordPress so it has nice, pretty, descriptive URLs. Now you’re done right? Well, not exactly. WordPress default installs are great for crawlability, meaning that because it has links all over the place, the search engines can always find a path to any article. On the bad [...]

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WordPress URLs by default aren’t real helpful. They give your visitor no information about the page. They add nothing to the information in your search listings. And they tell the search engines nothing about your page. That’s three wasted opportunities and it’s dead simple to fix.

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