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When You Should (and Shouldn’t) Use a WordPress Plugin

Jerod Morris on September 12, 2012

The key to effective use of plugins is to deploy them only from properly vetted sources, and only when necessary.

Plugins should solve a specific problem or provide an essential function. They should not indulge our vanity or our desire for a “shiny new object”.

In this post, let’s get specific and discuss a decision-making framework for a specific type of plugin that can be applied across many different plugins.

Conductors, Synthesis

3 Quick Tips For Linking, Embedding, and Centering YouTube Videos in WordPress

Jerod Morris on August 21, 2012

Jerod provides a few quick, easy tutorials on how to link to and embed YouTube videos at specific time stamps in your WordPress posts.

Developers, Synthesis

Why WordPress Website Owners Shouldn’t Mourn the Demise of Hosting Control Panels

Jerod Morris on June 28, 2012

For years site owners have been trained that the main interface for their site is their hosting control panel. A lot has changed, however, since John Nick Koston invented the cPanel. For the serious site owner who uses WordPress, a hosting control panel is the last thing you want on your production site.

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