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It’s a Theme Shop Now
churchthemes.com has been a one theme project since its launch a few months ago. Now that Exodus has been released, it’s a theme shop instead of just a theme. We have two themes now and plans for more....
View ArticleBecoming Efficient at Support Before Hiring Help
Every serious WordPress theme and plugin seller provides support for their product. The product itself is made up of files that can be automatically distributed thousands of times with no increase in...
View ArticleHow to Build a Church Website with WordPress
AJ Clarke gave me the opportunity to write on WPExplorer about using WordPress to build a church website. I wanted to lay it all out with the assumption that the reader is a total beginner. I listed...
View ArticleHelping WordPress Users Avoid the Theme Lock-in Effect
My guess is that most WordPress theme users do not know what the lock-in effect is. That is, until they try to switch themes one or two years later. It’s something theme user need to know about so they...
View ArticleEight Things I Would Kill On Every Theme Shop
There’s a story about a young woman who, like her mother, cut the end of her ham off before baking it. She wondered why this trick produced such a good result so she asked her mother. Her mother didn’t...
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How to Make a Line Break Instead of a Paragraph in WordPress
I was just asked this question about making a line break (or new line) in WordPress and thought I’d write an article on it in case it helps someone else. We want to start a new line in our content...
View ArticleWordPress Update Error: Failed to write request to temporary file
One of the WordPress plugins I use on two sites had an update. On the first site, it updated fine as always. On this site (which is hosted on a different server), the plugin update failed with an error...
View ArticleExcerpts and the “More” Tag in WordPress Themes
Are theme authors killing the excerpt? I was surprised to see the new default WordPress theme (Twenty Fifteen) show full content on archives instead of excerpts. The idea is that users can use the More...
View ArticleProfessionals: If you’re not using a child theme, you’re burning your...
Consider this a public service announcement. I had a support request from a customer at churchthemes.com today. They couldn’t update their theme. And it’s a good thing too, because the theme had been...
View ArticleDistractions and forsaking Twitter. Mostly.
I started a note in EverNote titled Simplify Everything. It’s the beginning of my quest to make my time working more effective in the midst of this insanely distracting thing we call the Internet. The...
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