AJ MorrisTag: php | AJ Morris http://ajmorris.org Life in a Startup Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:04:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Goal of 3 Posts Per Week http://ajmorris.org/goal-of-3-posts-per-week/ http://ajmorris.org/goal-of-3-posts-per-week/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:30:54 +0000 AJ Morris http://ajmorris.org/?p=434 When I decided to relaunch this blog I knew that just a new redesign wasn’t going to bring people back. I needed to do something else. That being said I decided that I was going to give myself a goal of X number of posts per week. The way I am going to accomplish this goal is by scheduling them in advance. It’s one of the few features I’ve only played with in WordPress and not really used for my own blog.

After using it for a few days now, I have to say that I’m really impressed with it. I can get together a schedule of posts I want on here and start working on them and then just schedule a date for when they get published. And it works beautifully!! I can say without a doubt that this feature I’m going to be using a lot! I don’t have to wait around till the night before I want something posted. I can load up a queue of posts and then not have to worry about getting content up here. That my friends is a great thing!

I’ve got some screencasts I’ve been working on and they will be posted next week. In the meantime, if you are into WordPress as much as I am, you might want to check out some of the posts below. They talk about the new features of 3.0. They helped me get this blog started and I think they will help you too.

]]> http://ajmorris.org/goal-of-3-posts-per-week/feed/ 0 Relaunch 2.0 is a Go! http://ajmorris.org/relaunch-2-0-is-a-go/ http://ajmorris.org/relaunch-2-0-is-a-go/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:00:06 +0000 AJ Morris http://ajmorris.org/?p=426 I’m pleased to be relaunching this site today, especially on my birthday! I decided to hold off another week so that I could get a few more posts done, and a few more little things working right with this blog. I am pretty happy with the results of waiting for a week.

Over the past few months I’ve been working hard to relaunch this site and get a few other ones ready to launch over the next few weeks. This site is just the start! Getting designs finished, doing all the tweaking that needs to get done, let alone get all the content ready.

All these sites will be running on the WordPress platform, and all on one install of WP 3.0. Being able to run them all on a couple of servers and having the same administration login for all should make it easier to manage them. I think one of the best features with WP 3.0 is the fact that they merged WP and WPmu together. It makes it a lot easier for people that have multiple sites to manage them.

Now I’m sure a few of your are thinking, but wait AJ you’re a rails developer…That’s right, I am a Ruby developer. Well the reason I chose WordPress as the platform is that it just works. I don’t have to muck around with security, logins, blogs, taxonomy, pages, etc. All I had to do was some design work (or farm parts of it out. :) ) and create or use a few plugins. The development time was pretty quick. Also, I believe that you don’t always have to reinvent the wheel just to get something out there when another product out there. Besides there’s lots of Rails/Ruby developers out there that rock WordPress backed blogs! :P

This theme was designed as a child theme to the new default theme, TwentyTen. I wanted to play around with creating my first child theme as well as test out the new Google Fonts API. We’ll see how long I keep all these Google Fonts! So please take a look around, provide any feedback you have for me in the comments, and I’ll be back soon with more goodies!!

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