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Discount code for next week’s Content Strategy Summit

August 18, 2016 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

Next week, I'm speaking at the online Content Strategy Summit, along with a really intimidating lineup. Want 20% off your registration? Enter LEARY as your discount code. Registration gets you live attendance (ask questions!) AND access to the recordings afterward. See you (on … [Read more...] about Discount code for next week’s Content Strategy Summit

Events, WordPress content strategy, content strategy summit

WordPress Hidden Gem: enter_title_here filter

June 21, 2016 Stephanie Leary 2 Comments

When you're working with custom post types, sometimes the post title isn't a title. It might be a person's name, a building number, or a course code (just to take a few examples from universities). So it's great that WordPress has a simple filter that makes it easy to customize … [Read more...] about WordPress Hidden Gem: enter_title_here filter

WordPress content modeling, content strategy, microtext

Upcoming events for 2016: WPCampus, Content Strategy Summit, HighEdWeb

June 16, 2016 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

Tonight (and about once a month from now on), I'll be at the College Station WordPress Meetup. We're going to build a site from scratch as a demo for newbies. The second, smaller conference room will be available for advanced developers to chat. Locals, I hope to see you … [Read more...] about Upcoming events for 2016: WPCampus, Content Strategy Summit, HighEdWeb

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Category (or taxonomy) drill-down pages

June 14, 2016 Stephanie Leary 2 Comments

Diagram of three category pages. On the first two, for categories that have children, only a list of linked child categories is shown. The third, for a category with no more children, shows the usual post loop.

WordPress category archives are very inclusive. They list all the posts in a category, including all the child categories. This is also true for all other hierarchical taxonomies. If you have a deep hierarchy, it might make more sense to have your users drill down until they … [Read more...] about Category (or taxonomy) drill-down pages

WordPress categories, content strategy, taxonomies, themes

New book! Content Strategy for WordPress is now available

April 28, 2015 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

At long last, Content Strategy for WordPress is available everywhere! This is a relatively short book—less than half as long as WordPress for Web Developers was—and it’s aimed at a more general audience. Paradoxically, I’ve been working on it twice as long as on either of the … [Read more...] about New book! Content Strategy for WordPress is now available

Books, Featured, WordPress content modeling, content strategy, Custom Fields, custom post types, shortcodes, taxonomies, Workflow

Content Audit update: new reset option!

February 20, 2015 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

There's a new reset button at the bottom of the Content Audit plugin's settings screen. If you're embarking on your second (or third) review of your site's content, you can use this to clear the previous status attributes (outdated, redundant, etc.), the notes, and the assigned … [Read more...] about Content Audit update: new reset option!

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Video: Content Strategy for WordPress, from WordCamp Chicago

September 16, 2013 Stephanie Leary 1 Comment

My WordCamp Chicago talk on content strategy is up on wordpress.tv! This is similar to my San Francisco talk, but a bit more general. You can get the slides from Slideshare. http://wordpress.tv/2013/09/14/stephanie-leary-content-strategy-for-wordpress/ … [Read more...] about Video: Content Strategy for WordPress, from WordCamp Chicago

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Video: Content Strategy for WordPress Case Study

August 2, 2013 Stephanie Leary 1 Comment

My talk from WordCamp San Francisco last weekend, on content strategy, has been posted: http://wordpress.tv/2013/08/02/stephanie-leary-content-strategy-wordpress-case-studies/ Here are the slides, in case you missed them. … [Read more...] about Video: Content Strategy for WordPress Case Study

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Content modeling for WordPress, part 3: a sample content model

July 29, 2013 Stephanie Leary 3 Comments

On fazd.tamu.edu, we found that in addition to the standard pages and posts, we had three distinct things: research projects, tools (the tangible items created during past research projects, like software suites or new vaccines), and people. These will become our custom post … [Read more...] about Content modeling for WordPress, part 3: a sample content model

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Content modeling for WordPress, part 2: functional and organizational requirements

July 27, 2013 Stephanie Leary 2 Comments

In the first post in this series, I mentioned that, as you decide whether you need to create new post types, you should think ahead to the way your content will be displayed and sorted. Let's go back to Rachel Lovinger's A List Apart article on content modeling. … [Read more...] about Content modeling for WordPress, part 2: functional and organizational requirements

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