WordPress Boot Camp
What I learned at WordCamp:
- For WordPress.com-hosted blogs, there is 1 theme for every 6,000 sites.
- For self-hosted blogs, there is 1 theme for every 3,000 sites.
- 31% of visitors post blog comments [source: Forrester Research]
- 95% of WordPress blogs are hosted on Apache-Linux (vs. Windows IIS)
- Include numerals in Permalinks (for PHP optimization)
- Replace your default admin user (for security purposes)
- Recommended plugins: Clean Archives Reload, Dashboard Scheduled Posts, Gallery2, Headspace, Maintenance Mode, NextGen Gallery, No Self Pings, Revelanssi, Twitter Tools, WP DB Manager, WP Open ID, WP Security Scans, WP Super Cache
- Read How To Be a RockStar WordPress Designer by Rockable Press
- Read Trust Agents by Chris Brogan
- Read PHP Solutions by David Powers
- Read Six Pixels of Separation by Mitch Joel
- Setup Feedburner (vs. RSS only)
- Use Starkers Naked theme
- Be Authentic
- Blog
Thanks to Adobe for providing free space.
Return to Stuart Island
Puget Sound King Crabs are a species of King Crab that inhabit the Pacific Ocean between central California and Alaska. As you can see, adults are orange, red, and purple.
What does this have to do with marketing? Absolutely nothing.
I’m scuba diving around Stuart Island in the San Juans this weekend with James Keithly and Jason Baker.
Note of interest: the African wildlife pictured above live on Spieden Island, owned by James Jannard, the founder of Oakley, who resides on Orcas Island.
Out of Office: By Invitation Only
Yours truly has been invited to join The Mountaineers esteemed 2009 Crag Committee. I’ll be volunteering to help coordinate climbing field trips, where I may also serve as an assistant instructor. I also have to attend some committee meetings. And we’ll probably drink some brews.
Thanks to my friend M.J. Kelly who recommended that I take the Crag Course. If you are looking to build your rock climbing skills, I highly recommend this hands-on instruction.
Wedding Photography by Marlow
Summer. It’s not just the season for rock climbing and thunderstorms. Summer means weddings. Lots of weddings.
Last month, Jen’s cousin Kitty Rasmussen married Jeff Craig. Watch the Craig-McIntyre-Rasmussen reunion slideshow (the trimaran pictured at the end was hand-built by Jen’s uncle, Dennis Rasmussen, in nine months!)
This week, I visit Hamilton, MT for a one-day shoot of the wedding of Charla Grenz and Ben Solheim.
I return to the office Monday, August 18.
Out of Office: I’d Rather Be Climbing
One that reckons accounts all the day passes not a happy moment. One that gladdens his heart all the day provides not for his house. The bowman hits the mark, as the steersman reaches land, by diversity of aim. He that obeys his heart shall command.
- Ptahhotep (Egyptian sage), 2400 B.C.
The modern version:
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.
Climbing is both play and hard work. So I’m headed to BC for the Squamish Mountain Festival. I will check email sporadically, but return calls after Monday.
Cheakamus Canyon, The Malamute, Shannon Falls, Smoke Bluffs, Star Chek…check out the climbing photos.
Out of Office
It’s Rockfest!
Friday, I’ll be sending some multi-pitch trad climb somewhere around Leavenworth…maybe Givler’s Crack, or Groundhog’s Day, who knows. Saturday and Sunday, it’s on to the free climbing clinics and BBQ at Bridge Creek Campground.
I’ll return calls and emails Monday.