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Stephanie Leary

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Why “click here” is a terrible link, and what to write instead

May 7, 2015 Stephanie Leary 12 Comments

An astonishing percentage of what I do with my clients' web copy involves eradicating the phrase "click here" from their links. For more information, click here. You see it everywhere. Everyone's doing it, so it must be a best practice, right? Wrong. It's the worst possible … [Read more...] about Why “click here” is a terrible link, and what to write instead

Blogging, Web Design, Writing accessibility, click here, copywriting, writing for the web

Speaking at BEA Bloggers Conference, May 29

April 5, 2013 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

I'm delighted to be going to New York City in May to speak at the BookExpo America Bloggers Conference. I'll be on the Blogging Platforms panel, talking about how book bloggers can make the most of WordPress. Plus I'll be, you know, wandering around BEA for three days! I'm so … [Read more...] about Speaking at BEA Bloggers Conference, May 29

Blogging, Events, for Authors, Publishing, WordPress bea

Saying goodbye to Textile

June 2, 2010 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

I came to WordPress after using TextPattern for a while, and when I switched, I didn't want to give up Textile formatting, so I found a plugin and kept using it. That was six years ago. These days I do a lot more code samples, and trying to get characters escaped properly is … [Read more...] about Saying goodbye to Textile

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moving the furniture

February 17, 2010 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

If you follow me on RSS or LiveJournal, you probably just saw a flood of new posts. Sorry about that! When I started wordpress-as-cms.com last summer, I meant it to be a place where I could write about all my geeky technical WordPress stuff without boring you all here. But, since … [Read more...] about moving the furniture

Blogging, WordPress

New WordPress plugin: Import HTML Pages

July 31, 2009 Stephanie Leary 9 Comments

This plugin will import a directory of files as either pages or posts, according to configurable settings. You may specify the HTML tag containing the content you want to import (e.g. <body>, <div id="content"> or <td width="732">) or the name of a Dreamweaver … [Read more...] about New WordPress plugin: Import HTML Pages

Blogging, Web Design, WordPress

New WordPress plugin: Recent Posts with Excerpts widget

July 26, 2009 Stephanie Leary 1 Comment

I've written a widget that lists your most recent posts with excerpts, optionally limited to a category. The number of posts and excerpts is configurable; for example, you could show five posts but include the excerpt for only the most recent. Supports The Excerpt Reloaded and … [Read more...] about New WordPress plugin: Recent Posts with Excerpts widget

Blogging, Web Design, WordPress

New WordPress plugin; new WordPress site

July 5, 2009 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

My new Next Page plugin provides shortcodes and template tags for previous, next, and parent navigation in pages. It's a feature I've wanted for a while, and a post in the support forum finally made me figure out the code (and then rewrite it from scratch to make it work as a … [Read more...] about New WordPress plugin; new WordPress site

Blogging, Web Design, WordPress

When you can’t log in to wordpress.com stats from your Dashboard…

June 12, 2009 Stephanie Leary 1 Comment

…but you can log in at wordpress.com itself, and you're using Firefox… …you probably need to go to your cookie preferences and check "Accept third-party cookies," because the stats are loaded in an iframe, and Firefox is trying to protect you from yourself. … [Read more...] about When you can’t log in to wordpress.com stats from your Dashboard…

Blogging, Techy Goodness, WordPress

Design tweaks

February 5, 2009 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

Couple of minor tweaks to the new design: I've put the search form back (it's in the footer), and I've added some feeds. If you'd like to subscribe to the main posts without the elsewheres, you can now do so. The feed links are in the footer and will also be shown in browsers … [Read more...] about Design tweaks

Blogging, Web Design

New WordPress plugin: Mass Format Conversion

February 2, 2009 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

Mass Format Conversion applies all content filters to posts and comments and saves them back to the database. This is useful if you have been using Textile or Markdown (for example) and you want to switch to plain HTML. Use it with caution! … [Read more...] about New WordPress plugin: Mass Format Conversion

Blogging, Web Design, WordPress

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I’m a front end developer at Equinox OLI, working on open source library software. I was previously a freelance WordPress developer in higher education. You can get in touch here or on LinkedIn.

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