Author: Vision Nest Media

Workshop: Crowdfunding For The Win

A few days ago I attended my first workshop at the still new WIMPSpace. The topic was something I’ve been toying with for a while, Crowdfunding For The Win, so I was looking forward learning more. It was led by Nancy Hayssen, who just had a successful crowdfunding campaign and raised $5000 to create a children’s book with the theme of...

WordPress links (August 2014)

News, tips, tutorials and more from the world of WordPress that I found interesting and/or useful A Launch Check List for Professional WordPress Websites (tutsplus) Quick Tip: How to Add Numbered Pagination to WordPress (wplift) Making a Church Website With WordPress (wpkube) How to Analyze Your Links in WordPress with LinkPatrol (wpbeginner) Final Tips for Best Practices in WordPress Development...

Show and sort ALL entries of Business Directory Plugin

If you are already using the Business Directory Plugin for WordPress you know how powerful it is in building directories of any kind paid or free. However if you want to have a page that shows all the entries of your directory, sorted you have a problem. When you use the [businessdirectory-viewlistings] shortcode the entries are shown by category after category...

WordPress links (July 2014)

News, tips, tutorials and more from the world of WordPress that I found interesting and/or useful Trim the Bloat: Taking Another Look (tutsplus) CLI Cheat Sheet (wptavern) Free High Resolution Stock Image Resources (wplift) 3 Easy Ways To Add Pinterest (wpkube) How to Add Social Buttons in WordPress RSS Feed (wpbeginner) How to Fix Facebook Incorrect Thumbnail Issue in WordPress...

Choose posts for the home/blog page of a WordPress site

Usually on the blog page, which is often the home page, of a WordPress site you see the ten latest blog posts. You can change the number in the settings (Dashboard -> Settings -> Reading or …/wp-admin/options-reading.php ), but cannot select which posts show up. The simplest and best solution I found for choosing posts for the home page is the NS Featured Posts...

WordPress links (June 2014)

News, tips, tutorials and more from the world of WordPress that I found interesting and/or useful How To Use Sass With WordPress (elegantthemes) 7 Tools for WordPress Development (wpcontent.co.uk) Installing WordPress in the Amazon Cloud (tutsplus) Git it Right: Better WordPress Development (torquemag) Top 5 Best Practices when using Jetpack on client websites (jetpack) 10 Ways to Set Up Hidden...

Support Web & Interactive Media Professionals -> support community -> support me

Last June I quit my dayjob with plan of getting my own clients, learning more web technology and getting paid more. I reached all three of these goals. I wouldn’t have been able to do it without WIMP- Web & Interactive Media Professionals, “a community of designers, programmers, marketing specialists, search engine optimization experts, social media gurus and just about anyone having to...

WordPress links of the week (April 14, 2014): Payment methods, hookr.io, Migration Challenges

News, plugins tips, tutorials and more from the world of WordPress that I found interesting and/or useful Who Else Wants To Collect Payments Using WordPress Sites? (wpexplorer) PayPal, Selz, Google Wallet, Stripe How to Install Breadcrumbs in WordPress and Why You Should (wpmudev) An Introduction to bobWP Tutorials (torquemag) Using icons in your WordPress menu (Chris Lema) Font Awesome 4...

WordPress links of the week (April 7, 2014): Open source font, sticky elements,, responsive images

News, plugins tips, tutorials and more from the world of WordPress that I found interesting and/or useful: Scott Bolinger: Mobile Apps Using WordPress (wordpress.tv) Steve Zehngut: Theme Development With Foundation Framework (wordpress.tv) 7 Really Annoying Things About WordPress (and How to Fix Them) (wpkube) Switching Between Code and Visual View Messes up Your Formatting, Tree View for Pages, Clients Don’t Update Their Plugins Using...

WordPress links of the week (March 31, 2014):

News, plugins tips, tutorials and more from the world of WordPress that I found interesting and/or useful: Quick Tip: Post Types, Taxonomies and Permalinks (tutsplus) both custom post types and taxonomies offer the ability to customize the rewrite rules of how the content is reached within the URL structure Strengthen Your WordPress Category Pages by Putting Your Best Posts First (wpmudev) Hide...