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Lessons Learned: Standing Up for My Work

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When I received advance notice that my How to Enable Classic Editor in WordPress.com was going to be included in a popular WordPress email newsletter, I was surprised and excited.

I’ve published over 1,900 posts in 12 years of blogging.

It’s not often my posts capture the attention of a news site devoted to covering the WordPress ecosystem for WordPress professionals and enthusiasts.

No information was provided to me about what would be said about my post.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t the good experience I expected. And likely has resulted in a loss of my reputation in the WordPress community. Continue reading Lessons Learned: Standing Up for My Work

How to Turn Off Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) on Your WordPress Site

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Disable FLoC plugin home page on the WordPress plugin repository.

When I learned Google was rolling out Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), their latest advertising experiment, to Google Chrome users, I knew it wasn’t something I wanted to participate in.

And it wasn’t something I wanted my website visitors to unknowingly participate in.

Why?

My main reason: privacy for me and website visitors. Continue reading How to Turn Off Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) on Your WordPress Site

My Recommended Online Resources for Learning WordPress

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When my friend Nick DeNardis messaged me,

You around? I’m looking for some good WordPress ‘tutorials’ on how to use the interface. I thought you would have some bookmarks that you like that is more comprehensive than me just Googling for them.

I knew what he was looking for.

As organizer of two WordPress meetup groups, Metro Detroit WordPress Meetup and West Metro Detroit WordPress group, I’m often asked that question.

Whether they’ve created their site themselves, or had someone create their site, our meetup members want to learn the steps for learning how to use WordPress.

And my first response is usually, How do you prefer to learn? Continue reading My Recommended Online Resources for Learning WordPress

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