May 12th, 2012 by Curtiss Grymala
I am extremely proud to share that I will be presenting at the 2012 Environments for Humans WP Summit. Environments for Humans brings fantastic conferences online, allowing attendance from all over the world. They put on the Accessibility Summit, the WP Summit, the jQuery Summit and more (including the dotEduGuru Summit).
During this year’s WP Summit, I will be presenting a brief overview of WordPress Multi-Network; explaining what that means and how it works.
If you’re interested in learning a little more about WordPress Multi-Network, or any of the other topics being discussed at the WP Summit, I would highly recommend attending.
Tags: e4h, environments for humans, multi-network, multisite, wp summit, wpmu
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February 15th, 2012 by Curtiss Grymala
This year promises to be a great year for professional development, and I am extremely proud to be a big part of that. If you’re interested in coming to hear me speak about WordPress and its uses in higher education, I’ve already confirmed a few opportunities for you to do so. Following is a list of the conferences at which I’ll be presenting in the first half of 2012. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 5th, 2011 by Curtiss Grymala
A few days ago, I had someone ask me if I though WordPress was ready to be an enterprise-level Web content management system (WCMS). My initial response was basically “Yes, I should hope so.” My livelihood, at this point, depends on WordPress functioning as an enterprise WCMS.
However, I feel like I should qualify that affirmative answer a little bit. While WordPress is almost completely capable of being an enterprise WCMS, there are a few caveats that go with that. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: active directory, business, cms, enterprise, ldap, plugins, workflow
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March 9th, 2011 by Curtiss Grymala
As you may or may not know, WordPress 3.1 was released about 2 weeks ago. We at Ten-321 Enterprises have slowly been going through and updating many of the WordPress-based websites we maintain. Overall, the process seems to take an average of around 30 minutes. To some, that may seem like a long time, but we want to make sure we do everything methodically and take extra precautionary measures when performing updates.
The process we follow is:
- Perform a complete backup of the site (this includes the whole database and all files on the site/server – even tables and files not directly related to WordPress). Under most circumstances, we will use the WordPress EZ Backup plugin to perform the backups. However, some servers do not support the tools necessary to use WP EZ Backup, so we have to run a manual backup.
- Update all plugins with available updates, checking to make sure nothing on the site broke after each plugin is updated.
- Perform another complete backup (so that we can revert to the version with updated plugins if the core update fails for some reason).
- Deactivate any plugins that are known to cause conflicts or errors when updating the core.
- Perform the core update.
- Ensure that any cached pages (we use WP Super Cache on quite a few sites) are cleared out.
- Reactivate any plugins we deactivated prior to performing the update.
- Review the entire site to ensure no errors or issues popped up after the update.
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Tags: ez backup, multiple post thumbnails, multisite, update, upgrade, wordpress, wordpress 3.1, wp super cache
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February 9th, 2011 by Curtiss Grymala
The other day, WordPress 3.0.5 was released to combat a handful of security exploits. For the most part, our clients are not vulnerable to the security exploits that were open in WordPress 3.0.4, but it’s a good idea to update to the new version, anyway.
We updated the Ten-321 Enterprises network of sites and blogs this evening. As expected, the update was extremely simple and painless. Most of this is due to the great work the WordPress team is doing, but some credit also goes to Site5 for doing such a great job configuring their hosting accounts to work so well with WordPress. We have dealt with quite a few other hosts and found that some of them make it nearly impossible to keep WordPress up-to-date, and even harder to keep it secured properly.
With that said, we’d like to thank the WordPress team for their unwavering commitment to security and their consistent work to improve and harden the system.
Tags: security, update, wordpress
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February 1st, 2011 by Curtiss Grymala
As you may or may not have noticed, one of the principles we stress at Ten-321 Enterprises is affordability. Since the beginning, our tagline has been “Making it affordable to have a presence on the Web.” But, what exactly do we mean when we say that?
Are we implying that our services cost less than those of our competitors? Yes and no. A lot of that depends on who you qualify as our competitors. Ten-321 Enterprises is not the least expensive (financially) company you’ll find on the Web; but we do offer the best value for your money. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: affordable, competitor, money, return on investment, roi, value, website development
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January 23rd, 2011 by Curtiss Grymala
This evening, we are proud to announce that the portfolio of work performed by Ten-321 Enterprises is available on our website. The new portfolio includes screen shots of most of our recent projects and, when you click on each screen shot, you will be taken to a short description of the project itself. We hope that, in the future, the caliber of our work can continue to speak for itself; and we are certain that this portfolio will help it do so. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: css3, custom post type, featured image, portfolio, wordpress
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December 19th, 2010 by Curtiss Grymala
If you use WordPress as a blogging platform, you may have noticed that there is a glut of plug-ins and applications making it easy for your users to share your blog posts on various social networks, but there are very few plug-ins designed to allow you to automatically publish your own posts to various social networks.
There are a few, though, and they seem to work rather well. Read the rest of this entry »
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October 25th, 2010 by Curtiss Grymala
A few weeks ago, we were very proud to unveil a brand new website for our client Bethania Kids. The project took approximately 4 months from start to finish, and turned out extremely well. Starting with a beautiful and challenging website design from Moeller Design, we took the ball and ran with it, building a full-featured website based on WordPress 3.0.1.
From the Bethania Kids mission statement:
The mission of Bethania Kids is to nurture, and equip the children of India to change their world through Jesus’ love. Bethania Kids defines nurturing as providing food, clothing, shelter, medical and dental care, and emotional support.
The new website includes a promotional marquee for the home page, which is easily switched out using the WordPress backend. The client now has the ability to post a single marquee image that will appear every time the home page is loaded or multiple promotional items that will rotate randomly each time a visitor returns to the home page. Using the “sticky” posts feature in WordPress, a single promo item can appear each time a new visitor comes to the website, with random promo items appearing on each subsequent visit. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: bethania kids, client, css3, moeller design, new website, wordpress
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August 12th, 2010 by Curtiss Grymala
This is the first in what I plan to be a series of posts about the software, applications and plug-ins we use in the back-end of our website and our clients’ websites. For tonight’s post, I wanted to briefly share about one of the WordPress plug-ins installed here on our website and a few of our clients’ sites.
That WordPress plug-in is called Twitoaster, and what it does is pretty simple. First of all, it allows you to automatically send a tweet whenever you publish a new WordPress post or page. That’s cool enough on its own, but the really cool thing Twitoaster does is to keep track of when and where your posts are mentioned and/or retweeted on Twitter. Then, it adds those tweets as new comments on the blog post. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: backend, plugin, twitoaster, website, wordpress
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