Siobhan McKeown | Smashing WordPress

Author: Siobhan McKeown

Siobhan McKeown is a big fan of words, and of WordPress, which works out pretty well since she runs Words for WP, the only copywriting service dedicated to WordPress service providers. She is editor-in-chief at WP Realm, a community blog dedicated to WordPress. You can find her on her personal blog, twitter and occasionally hanging out on G+.

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Sharing Your ExperiencesHow To Contribute To WordPress

May 10th, 2013
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WordPress is built by volunteers. People from all over the world collaborate to create the core software, to write the documentation, to provide support, to translate WordPress, to organise events, and to generally keep the project running. Individuals work on WordPress in their free time and companies ask their employees ...

First-Hand AdvicePractical Tips From Top WordPress Pros

March 20th, 2013
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Recently I shared with you some advice from the WordPress community to beginners. But what about if starting out is already a dim and distant memory? What if you’re already so immersed in the world of WordPress that you dream of trac and bore your partner with talk of the ...

Sharing ExperiencesHow To Improve And Refine Your WordPress Theme Development Process

February 21st, 2013
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There is so much to learn about WordPress theme development. The Internet is home to hundreds of articles about building WordPress themes, to countless theme frameworks that will help you get started, and to endless WordPress themes, some of which are beautiful and professional but not a few of which ...

Learn, Build and ShareThe WordPress Community Offers Advice To Beginners

February 1st, 2013
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We’ve all been total newbies. In fact, I spend most of my time still feeling like one. So researching this article was a great opportunity for me to do some more learning, and to share all of that good stuff with you. I reached out to people from across the ...

Passion For ExcellenceHow To Become A Top WordPress Professional

December 5th, 2012
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“First, let’s set a few things straight: becoming a top WordPress [developer professional] is hard work — very hard work. It’s going to take a lot of time, energy and determination. If you’re looking for an easy checklist or some “fast pass” to the top, you’re going to waste your ...

SecurityCommon WordPress Malware Infections

October 9th, 2012
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WordPress security is serious business. Exploits of vulnerabilities in WordPress’ architecture have led to mass compromises of servers through cross-site contamination. WordPress’ extensibility increases its vulnerability; plugins and themes house flawed logic, loopholes, Easter eggs, backdoors and a slew of other issues. Firing up your computer to find that you’re ...

Social NetworkingBuddyPress: One Plugin, Five Communities

September 26th, 2012
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BuddyPress is social networking in a box, the loveable plugin that has people around the world getting social. But using BuddyPress isn’t all about waking up one morning and being struck by the amazing idea of creating the next Facebook. BuddyPress is a tool for creating communities. In fact, if ...

StudySecrets Of High-Traffic WordPress Blogs

September 12th, 2012
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We all know that WordPress is awesome – but being awesome isn’t always enough. Does it perform well under pressure? Can it deal with traffic from millions of visitors every month? There’s no question that WordPress can be used for your or my blog, but what about multi-authored blogs ...

Writing Effective Documentation For WordPress End Users

July 4th, 2012
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In this article, we’ll look at writing documentation for a WordPress plugin, theme or product. Most of the information can be applied to documentation for other software types, but we’ll look at some WordPress-specific aspects. In my experience, the quality of documentation in WordPress plugins and themes varies widely. From poorly ...