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Locking Down WordPress

Michael Pick — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:10:16 +0000

It’s easy to blame WordPress when your client’s site gets hacked and you’re trying to talk them off the ledge because their beloved site is now hawking Viagra on every single page. Your clients start to question you, and to question this WordPress thing you told them would be so easy to use and maintain.

The reality is that you can take control of security for your WordPress installations, and while there’s no 100% pure fix or safeguard, taking the right precautions and knowing what to do if things go pear-shaped is priceless when you’re shipping WordPress projects out in the wild.

In Locking Down WordPress, seasoned WordPress pros Rachel Baker, Brad Williams, and John Ford take you through everything you need to know to make sure you have WordPress security under control.

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Getting Pricing Right

Michael Pick — Fri, 11 May 2012 02:59:26 +0000

Let’s be honest, you got into developing or designing WordPress because there’s a market for it. If you wanted to scrape a living together between burger flipping gigs you’d still be working with SuperSiteDesignerPro++! or FrontPage.

That doesn’t mean it’s always easy to get your pricing right in a competitive marketplace. Do you charge per hour, per project or some arcane combination of the two? Are you so confident in yourself that you’re charging three times the market average, but sitting next to your inbox waiting for a client? Or are you fighting off hordes of clientele, working 22 hours a day between caffeine infusions, and still barely making rent? Pricing’s not only tough, it’s also a fiercely guarded secret for most people.

That’s why Code Poet asked a handful of professionals that have been through what you’re going through and come out the other side. People you’ve heard of, people doing very nicely thank you from their WordPress-powered business.

In this short book, Mark Jaquith, Shane Pearlman and Remkus de Vries take you through their real world strategies and tactics for getting pricing right on your next WordPress project…

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WordPress Meet Responsive Design

Michael Pick — Fri, 11 May 2012 02:55:36 +0000

Right now you quite possibly have sites out there in the wild that look like death on one screen or another. And while your trainwreck site turns site visitors away, devices are proliferating faster than anyone can remember what to call them, making your trainwreck site a trainwreck pile up.

Gone are the days of the fixed layout tailored to some imaginary, cramped CRT. And the half way house of fluid layouts are no longer enough when you’re presenting content to people looking at your site through smartphones, tablets, various sized laptops or arrays of gigantic monitors with resolutions of titantic proportions.

That’s where Responsive Web Design (RWD) comes in.

Since Ethan Marcotte coined the term back in 2010 more and more designers and developers have been building projects responsively; sites that actually bother to query the viewport they’re being experienced through, and adapt to make the experience as good as can possibly be.

So what’s that to you as a WordPress-powered designer or developer? Code Poet asked the people most likely to know. In this short book Chris Coyier, Ian Stewart and Sara Cannon give you the lowdown on their real world uses and strategies for designing WordPress responsively…

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