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Working With WordPress and Windows IIS

I was working on a Windows 7 machine and I needed to get all the Microsoft web and SQL Server stuff on it for an upcoming project. I grabbed the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 and started checking boxes. While exploring the options I noticed that it offered to install WordPress (along with quite

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Quick Tip: WordPress on 1and1.com

I recently finished up a custom WordPress project for a client hosted at 1and1.com. Now, 1&1 is a pretty major hosting company, but this is the first time I’ve ever deployed WordPress there so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect.

Initially, everything seemed just fine — until the first WP minor upgrade was released. The

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WordPress: Using Deko Boko forms with Atahualpa Theme

As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve been working with the Atahualpa theme this week. Good stuff and I really like the results so far.

All this work on the blog got me motivated to do some other house-keeping tasks as well. First on the list? Getting a contact form back on my About & Contact page. I

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New Look and Feel

I haven’t changed the theme of this blog for almost two years. That’s forever in bloggers years, right? While I liked what I had, I recently decided it was time for change.

Until recently I have always had two thoughts about WordPress themes:

Code my own
Don’t use widgets (related to item 1)

I wanted to know exactly how

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