Nouvelle année, mes retours et les choses à venir
Wow, nous avons à peine eu le temps de revenir sur 2014 et voilà que 2015 nous a déjà donné beaucoup à réfléchir. Il semble maintenant non seulement difficile, mais presque inapproprié de parler de...
View ArticleRemove blog slug from multisite installations
WordPress has this wonderful feature that allows you to create an endless number of websites from a single installation of the software. It’s known as multisite, or a network installation, and setting...
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Showcase: Gravity Forms
Nowadays I delete about 4 out of 5 tweets that I write. Only 1 of 5 only ever gets published. Why? Because I try to avoid reactive, negative tweets, and anything without intrinsic value. (And yes, I...
View ArticleMaintenance matters
When you think about it, the idea of “maintenance” or “upkeep” is found in all aspects our every days lives. Take health for example. It’s common knowledge that in order to stay healthy, we have to...
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Bootstrap grid column height hack
Say that three times fast :) I recently integrated the Bootstrap grid into my toolbox because man, does it make life easier. It’s a simple, portable system for creating fluid, responsive grid layouts,...
View ArticlePost placeholders
Ever have a layout set on a fixed number of posts that sometimes stops short? Ever wanted an easy solution for creating placeholder to fill those empty spaces? Here ya go. $new_query = new WP_Query(...
View ArticleWhere does your value lie?
I woke up this morning to news analysis about the recent Instant Articles deal that Facebook made with nine big media outlets. Social media and the democratization of publishing have already turned us...
View ArticleUpcoming: WordCamp Lyon
I am absolutely thrilled to be speaking at the first WordCamp Lyon on June 5! Lyon holds a special place in my heart, being the first city I lived in upon arriving in France back in 1996, and where I...
View ArticleSuite de ma conf à WordCamp Lyon
Malgré quelques soucis techniques (nppt : un fichier PowerPoint ne fonctionne pas très bien ouvert avec Keynote), j’ai été ravie de présenter mon rétrospective sur l’évolution des sites Internet et les...
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Complete results of my 2015 WordPress maintenance survey
In early May, I took a survey looking to get a better understanding of what’s being practiced in the WordPress community in terms of maintenance: services offered, tools used and pricing. While the...
View ArticleAdventures with WPML and multilingual WordPress
This blog post was initially commissioned to be part of a series exploring the different multilingual plugins for WordPress, for the popular French site WPChannel.com. As per my usual, I got a little...
View ArticleCelebrating 15 years of freelancing…with a sabbatical!
This month marks the 15 year anniversary of when I set out on my own as a freelancer, building websites for small businesses. I’ve met extraordinary people along the way, produced volumes of work that...
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TCPDF: what CSS does it support?
This is something I’ve been wanting to do for a while now: test for some basic CSS to create a comprehensive list of what TCPDF, my preferred method for generating PDFs on the web, does and doesn’t...
View ArticleHappy New Year 2016!
I wish all of you the very best this new year has to offer: health, happiness, love, prosperity. 2015 was a difficult year for me and for many people I’ve spoken with. It was a year full of challenges...
View ArticleWhat makes a great newsletter?
On Monday I sent out my first newsletter and have received a lot of great feedback and encouragement to continue. It was a pre-newsletter really, because in it I mention that it’s new, that it’s the...
View ArticleWhere and why I am slacking
Growing up, “slack” was synonymous with a complete lack of productivity or being a downright loser. These days, it’s the exact opposite. Before I go into the Where and the Why, let’s briefly look at...
View ArticleThoughts on volunteer work and leadership
I recently had the honor (and challenge!) of leading the team that organized the largest French WordPress event to date: WordCamp Paris 2016. There have already been lots of great reviews about the...
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Advanced Twitter search
Buried deep in the bowels of Twitter.com is a really neat tool for doing advanced searches. You just have to know where to look. Because for some odd reason, Twitter doesn’t make it easy to find. When...
View ArticleYou can have a multilingual website, but should you?
When we talk about multilingual websites, we tend to focus on technique. As WordPress developers we ask, “Which of the multilingual plugins has the best approach? How can we improve on them?” Clients...
View ArticleMaking Connections
“Jenny, I’m really disappointed in you.” “Uh oh, what did I do now?” “I signed up for your newsletter, and I still haven’t received anything!” Fair enough! I’m calling it Making Connections, an at...
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