Stephanie Leary

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    • Content Strategy for WordPress (2015)
    • WordPress for Web Developers (2013)
    • Beginning WordPress 3 (2010)
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    • Content Modeling for WordPress series
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Awkward Family Photos

November 11, 2010 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

Today's photographic inspiration: Awkward Family Photos. Every family has one. … [Read more...]

Writing inspiration, photos

A Random Trope

November 5, 2010 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

This is the link for a random page from the TV Tropes wiki. Use with caution! TV Tropes is a sucking vortex of awesome. You could fall in and not come out for days. … [Read more...]

Writing inspiration, random, tvtropes

Random Interestingness

November 4, 2010 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

Today's source of inspiration is the Flickr random interesting photos page. I love the crazy variety of stuff that ends up here. … [Read more...]

Writing flickr, inspiration, photos, random

Cool Bits

November 3, 2010 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

The Cool Bits story generator is one of my favorite things to play with when I'm bored with my story. There's always at least one Cool Bit I can throw in to liven things up. … [Read more...]

Writing inspiration

Flickrvision

November 2, 2010 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

Today's source of inspiration is Flickrvision. It's an early mashup prototype combining Flickr and Google Maps. If it's working, you should see images pop up from all over the world. … [Read more...]

Writing flickr, inspiration, photos

The Prompt Machine

November 1, 2010 Stephanie Leary 1 Comment

Since it's National Novel Writing Month, I'm going to bring you daily doses of writerly fun every day this month. First up: sources of inspiration. Today, it's The Prompt Machine. "A wants B, but can’t have it because of C." I have my main plot pretty well sorted out (for now), … [Read more...]

Writing inspiration

Latest WordPress Book

Content Strategy for WordPress

A short book for content strategists and managers on implementing a complete content strategy in WordPress: evaluation, analysis, content modeling, editing and workflows, and long-term planning and maintenance.

Read the sample chapter

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WordPress for Web Developers

WordPress for Web Developers (9781430258667)

This is a book for professional web designers and developers who already know HTML and CSS, and want to learn to build sites with WordPress. The book begins with a detailed tour of the administration screens and settings, then digs into server-side topics like performance and security. The second half of the book is devoted to development: learning to build WordPress themes and plugins.

This is the second, much-revised and updated edition of Beginning WordPress 3, with a more accurate title. Everything’s been updated for WordPress 3.6.

WordPress for Web Developers is out now. See what's inside...

The best WordPress features you’ve never noticed

  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Screen Options
  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Bulk Edit
  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Private Status
  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Dashboard Feed Readers
  • WordPress Hidden Gems: Options.php

Content Modeling for WordPress series

  • Content modeling for WordPress, part 1: analyze content
  • Content modeling for WordPress, part 2: functional and organizational requirements
  • Content modeling for WordPress, part 3: a sample content model

This is an excerpt from Content Strategy for WordPress.My latest books are Content Strategy for WordPress (2015) and WordPress for Web Developers (2013). Sign up to be notified when I have a new book for you.

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