Activated Akismet Plugin.

Boy, those spammers find you fast.

WordPress Learning Links:

• Content Management and Content Progress Plugins
• Joe Dolson WordPress Calendar
• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/11/securing-your-wordpress-website/
• http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/wordpress/wordpress-security-tips-plugins/
• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/09/writing-wordpress-guides-for-the-advanced-beginner/
• http://www.joedolson.com/articles/2011/11/accessible-wordpress-plug-ins-what-does-it-mean/

So, in between posts, my site got hacked. Don’t know if it was weak permissions, or one of the light cms’s that I was using.

My restore was kinda funky, so I reinstalled WP, and pulled in the 2 posts from the first install.

So day two:

• Install plugin BackWPup
• Removed Comments from “pages”, individually (turn on discussions in screen options, and uncheck allow comments)
• Made the “home” showcase/li>
• added twitter search to rss (to be replaced by a real twitter widget someday)
• Joined the wpgr.org google group

Links of the week:

• WordPress Cheat Sheets: Theme Anatomy Model 
• Smashing Magazine:Building WordPress Themes You Can Sell
• 1st Web Designer: Hot WordPress Themes for Personal Brand Building

First Day:

1. Installed WordPress from Scriptaculous
2. Changed to Dark version of theme
3. Made a blog page, and moved blog posts off home page
4. removed “powered by wordpress”(appearance, editor,Footer)
5. changed permalink structure /%post_id%/%postname%/
6. removed oversized image

Coming up:

• Accessiblity For WordPress
• SEO Tweaks
• Customize theme
• Create theme
• Find good video plugins

All the cool kids on http://grwebdev.org/ are saying the WordPress is the go-to CMS.

I’ve been using gpEasy for billcreswell.com, ‘cuz it’s simple, uses no database, and works in a IIS php site as well as it does in site hosted with Apache, like this host, arvixe. Templating is simple, too.

I also played with GetSimple for Captionwire.com, and liked the html5 theme it came with.

So, I’m turning to the web, and to http://wpgr.org to learn how to mod wordpress.

I no desiger, but I do like to make sure it’s responsive to a smartphone screen, because it’s really begun to bother me to either get a dumbed down site, with limited content, or a full screen that’s hard to read (like a certain theatre chain in my hood). Especially evil is being redirected to a mobile site automatically, without retaining the link I was trying to achieve!