Solutions to W3 Total Cache + FaceBook Share Conflict
September 5th , 2010
The setting that needs to be changed in order for both plugins to live in harmony
While working on a client site which used both the W3 Total Cache plugin as well as the Facebook Share plugin, I came across a bug where the Facebook Share icon that was to be placed at the top and bottom of each blog post was disappearing, only to be replaced by a “Share” link that linked to nowhere.
Category : 2-Minute Tips & Blog & WordPress
Solution to NextGen Gallery Slideshow CDN Conflict
July 30th , 2010
Here’s a special quick post this week to solve a problem I’ve been seeing around the web, but with no solution.
I was recently working on a high-traffic site that that uses using the W3 Total Cache plugin in conjunction with an Akamai CDN. This is a great way to optimize site performance and stability, but I did run into the unfortunate side effect of the NextGen Gallery plugin’s slideshow ceasing to work as soon as the CDN was integrated.
Thanks to my favorite WordPress hosting guru Willie Jackson, there is now a solution.
Category : 2-Minute Tips & Blog & WordPress
Important and Often-Missed LinkedIn Setting
July 5th , 2010
Thanks to my marketing compadre Phyllis Zimbler Miller at Miller Mosaic Power Marketing, I was recently made aware of a setting on my LinkedIn profile that’s pretty darn important, super-quick and easy to fix, but which has nonetheless eluded my consciousness over the last few years that I’ve been using LinkedIn.
Category : 2-Minute Tips & Blog & Cool Tools & Good Business
Ten Seconds to Better Networking
June 8th , 2010
Just discovered a simple idea for networking utilizing the power of LinkedIn.
Since I’m always looking to network with interactive agencies (who are usually a strong match for my particular services), before I meet someone at a particular agency either in person or over the phone, I take a quick glance at that person’s LinkedIn profile and see how I’m connected to that person. (more…)
Category : 2-Minute Tips & Blog & Cool Tools & Good Business
Fix for Broken WordPress Permalinks on GoDaddy
April 6th , 2010
Although I warn strongly against using GoDaddy for WordPress (and really, any) hosting, for those of us who for some reason must use GoDaddy, there is a super-annoying and potentially scary bug that I’ve experienced and also seen many other struggle with on various frantic forum threads.
Category : 2-Minute Tips & Blog & WordPress
Web Developers: Take 20 Seconds to be of Service
February 28th , 2010
Even if you’ve been living in a cave, you know full-well how tough the economy has been on jobs over the past couple of years.
However, one group that doesn’t seem to be suffering from this shortage of jobs is the workforce of web developers, and really, computer programmers in general.
Is this because we’re just so smart and have everything figured out? As much as some developers would like to think so, the answer is a highly recursive NO.
The way I see it is that our field is just plain less competitive than that of our non-programmer colleagues. The demand for folks who know how to muckety-muck with code is way greater than the number of deranged souls who actually enjoy sitting in a dark room all day (and night) fiddling with functions and hashes and overflow:hiddens and….are we asleep yet?
Category : 2-Minute Tips & Blog & Good Business & Web Wisdom
