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Wrapping Up The Year? It's Time for Rest.
Most of us, at the end of the year, take some time for rest. Time to slow down, to think about and plan for the next year. But here's what I know - one or even two weeks off to break from your day job won't restore you if you're completely exhausted.
2022 Planning - The Five Things You Can Do Now
Five Things To Think About If you're starting to think about your next year, and focused on your 2022 planning, may I give you five things to think about? 1. More Revenue Streams Everyone wants their business to grow. But most of the time what I find people doing is doubling down on the existing...
Four Learning Gaps You Can Address with Courses
You Can Build More Than Skill Courses I just got off a quick call about online courses and the paradigm that they were working under this notion that the only kind of course that you could create is a course that is solving a skill gap. You know those courses. It's all those \"how to\"...
Five Habits That Will Make You Smarter
Blogging daily is a discipline. It's not as hard as it looks. You sit at the computer and you don't get up until your post is published. Sure there are little tricks, but that's not the hard part. The hard part is trying to be helpful. And even that isn't the hardest part. The hardest...
WordPress and Web3
There's a Lot I Don't Know When it comes to WordPress and Web3, there's a lot I don't know. I mean a ton. So how can I write about something I don't know? Easy, I can take you on the journey with me. Let me give you a bit of background on how I got...
New WordPress Plugins in 2022
Two Problems I've Faced While Blogging Daily If you've just discovered this blog via this post, you're coming in on a streak of 352 days of daily blogging. I started the last day of last year and have been writing and publishing every day this year. Using Gutenberg and loving it. But it has driven...
There Are Two Kinds of People In The World
There Are Two Kinds of People You've likely seen the tweet that says something like, \"If you bought something that's normally $1,000 and you paid $750, you didn't save $250, you spent $750.\" Now maybe you wouldn't spend the $750. But if we change the numbers, you might get caught. Because most of us see...
The #2 WordPress Blog
See The WP Weekly Awards? Today the WP Weekly awards announced their winners on several categories. And this blog came in second place - the Silver medal, if you will. Remember this ad from Avis? It's how I felt taking the second spot. There's no way anyone beats WP Beginner. I'm pretty sure we all...
Using Gutenberg Daily
We're deep into this Gutenberg phase of WordPress. It's hard to believe it's been three years since its introduction. It's come a long way and I know - I've been using Gutenberg daily on this blog. Here are the five observations I have about Gutenberg after 349 daily blog posts. 1. Core Blocks Can Do...
Content Collaboration in WordPress
Gutenberg Has Given Us Many Things Three years ago when Gutenberg first showed up, many people worried about it and about adoption. Was it ready to roll into WordPress? Many people were unsure (including me). But what was clear, even back then, was that if Gutenberg worked, we'd be able to do lots of things...
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