WordPress version 3.8 is now out!
WordPress is the perfect content management system (CMS). While other systems offer different capabilities, WordPress is the ideal solution for a busy website owner or blogger who wants to run his or her business and not waste all day programming a website. Here are five reasons why a person should use this great content management system: Continue reading
Working at the Orion Group I get a lot of questions on how you can make your WordPress site more secure. WordPress itself is inherently pretty secure, but there are a few things that you can do to make it better. I am just going to cover a few of the basics here but they should help give you peace of mind. Continue reading
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If you are working on a project, you may face the prospect of having to create either a personal or business blog to get your message out, and to better interact with your clients or customers.
Before you start any web project, a little planning will help. “How to Plan Your Perfect Website” on the Orion blog will guide you on your way.
However, finding the best platform for your blogging needs becomes the next important issue. A good question to ask yourself is “What is your level of technical expertise, and how much do you want to exert yourself in using it?” Continue reading
Morning coffee by Shaun Janssens from wp-wallpaper.com
About a week ago, WordPress released the latest version of the most popular Content Management System on the web. Version 3.7 was released and included a handful of nice updates both visible and under the hood. Probably the most impactful update was the addition of Auto-Updates. Going forward, all minor bug fixes will be automatically updated on WordPress sites. Bug fixes, security enhancements, translations, and better password support were some other key additions to the release.
At Orion Group, we are proud to say that two of our developers, Dustin Filippini and Faison Zutavern, became first-time core contributors to WordPress in version 3.7. Continue reading
So, you have an idea for a website, and you’re ready to present your website ideas to your designer? If you follow these steps to brainstorm your website, it will save the hassle of delays, unexpected fees and a grumpy web developer.
A website can do all of this: Continue reading
In my last blog post, I went through an overview of the admin panel of WordPress. In this post, I am going to dive into pages: how to add, edit, and delete pages, as well as additional possible functionality. Each website that Orion Group develops is different. Some options covered in this post may not be included in your website.
The Pages tab is located along the left side of the admin panel. Pages generally has two subpages: All Pages, and Add New. All Pages lists all of the pages, as well as some information about each page such as the Title, Author, Comments, and Date. Add New allows you to add a new page. At the top of the page, it will show several links that allow you to look at pages with a different status: All, Published, Drafts, Private, and Trash. Continue reading
If you missed Aaron’s presentation titled: WordPress is a CMS, dammit!, at the February 2013 Milwaukee WordPress meetup, you can catch it here.
Listen to the Audio recording from Aaron Holbrook’s WordPress CMS Presentation – An MP3 audio file of Aaron Holbrook’s WordPress CMS Presentation at the Milwaukee WordPress Meetup.
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Here at Orion Group, we not only pride ourselves on great web designs and solidly coded development. We like to give back to the community that supports us. That is why we encourage our employees to regularly attend local Meetup groups and conferences. Our staff has even been responsible for organizing various tech meetups and putting on the 2012 and 2013 WordCamp Milwaukee, a weekend long learning-fest focusing all on WordPress.
We like to be known as the leaders in the Milwaukee WordPress development community, which is why we make sure we stay at the forefront of all that is WordPress. WordPress has been an invaluable tool and we feel we should give back to the cause. Just this week, I participated in the weekly WordPress podcast, WPWatercooler. We discussed providing WordPress support and the tools and techniques we use. I learned a lot by participating and I hope others learn by watching. Support is an important part of our job and although we have great tools in place to manage our support requests we are always looking to improve. Continue reading
The Milwaukee meetup group for WordPress convenes on the third Tuesday of each month. This meetup has taken place at numerous locations throughout Milwaukee. In more recent months it has found its home at Bucketworks, a collaborative/co-working space near the historic Third Ward.
The group is co-lead by Scott Offord, director or internet marketing at Orion Group, and Dustin Filippini, lead web developer at Orion Group.
This meetup focused on various issues regarding updating WordPress sites and keeping them safe from viruses and attacks, among other topics.
The evening’s discussion covered specifics like:
