Award from the Veterans of Foreign Wars
I joined the local Veterans of Foreign Wars in 2010 as a way to honor my father, Donald Payne who served in both World War II and the Korean Conflict.…
A Quick Overview of WordPress – How To Update Your Own Web Site
Many business owners and associations want to update their own web site content. WordPress is the number one way to let you do that. View this short 2 minute video…
How I Migrated my Custom PHP Site to WordPress
Since most of my web clients are now using WordPress it was only logical to migrate my own site from a custom PHP implementation to a custom WordPress site. Here…
Video Screen Capture
I decided today to start creating a video series to help my web clients learn how to use WordPress, the most popular Content Management System in the world. First off…
A WordPress Event Plugin
I've been integrating client web sites with a popular WordPress plugin in called "Events Manager" that allows me to show show events in my sidebar: I can also show events…
Concrete 5 – My impressions of this CMS after using WordPress
As a web developer I've spent the time to become proficient in learning, using and customizing WordPress, the most popular Content Manage System (CMS) around. Today I looked at another…
Forms in WordPress
WordPress is a popular and flexible CMS plus blogging platform however it lacks a simple form to allow web visitors to communicate with you. Fortunately the WordPress developers created a…
Custom Sidebars in WordPress
Tualatin Farmers Market has a WordPress site the uses a sidebar for searching, hours and sponsors:This week they asked if the page for Concerts could be changed so that it…
Customizing a Facebook Fan Badge
Facebook is such a huge social platform at the moment that I just had to setup my own fan page. So now the question became, "How do I let people…
The Events Calendar – Customing a WordPress Plugin
My new client is the Tualatin VFW and they wanted an Events Calendar feature so I installed a popular WordPress plug-in called The Events Calendar.I'm using widgets on each page…