Every year, the team at Ah So sponsors and helps organize WordCamp Nashville, the WordPress Conference in Nashville. This year was no different. With over 200 attendees and lots of great learning, the conference was a huge success. One of my favorite things about this year’s camp was sitting down with Clark Buckner. Clark is […]
If you are an entrepreneur and you are looking to start spreading the word about your idea, WordPress is a great tool! WordPress is used by many entreprenuers to help get their thoughts out to the world to read. Below, I will show you how to launch your idea using WordPress. Hosting your WordPress site […]
WPEngine is a great company who only hosts WordPress sites. They do great things like backing up your site, give you a development site in case you make mistakes, and if you are hacked, they will fix it for free! We love using them and use them to host our site. How to […]
Ah, the shower, what a great morning ritual. It wakes me up, helps me get my singing voice ready to bang out some great code, and is a great way to talk to people about WordPress hosting. Google “WordPress Hosting” and you’ll see results that span all sorts of price ranges and technical mumbo jumbo. […]
When WordPress 3.5 was announced, one of the big changes was within how WordPress handles the media gallery which Ah So uses to display sliders within our sites. Although the new user interface is a lot easier to use, we did have to make a few changes in how we handled images within our slider. […]
Ah, the old landing page. Every website has then, but not everyone does them well. At Ah So, we believe these pages should all do several things: 1. Clear and Emphasized Call To Action: Should convert viewers into customers Set offer copy and the call to action from rest of the page to make it […]
Using WordPress and a flexible framework like Genesis on a host like WPEngine can save you hours of both installation, planning, and troubleshooting. We did an analysis of our WordPress design and development time sheets and discovered that before we were using the Genesis and WPEngine solution, on average we were spending a majority of […]
Responsive WordPress Themes, now, that has a nice ring to it doesn’t it? Ever since the wonderful and super talented Kelly Housholder mentioned to me Sara Cannon’s WordPress San Francisco talk on responsive web design, I haven’t been able to sleep. About two or three months ago, I was doing a little research while preparing […]
We’ve been busy brainstorming about how we can use the power of WordPress to better our Nashville community. We’ve got several ideas that we’ll release later, but our first idea is FoodTrucksNashville.com Joel, our super coder dude, and myself, more of an average coder with a man crush on WordPress, are going to go get some […]
Nashville WordPress Community and beyond, I recently returned from my first SXSW Interactive Conference in Austin, TX. For those of you who don’t dork out 24-6.5 days of the week like myself, SXSW is like a dork spring break. All the big names in interactivity, social media, and technology are there talking about the latest […]