Michael Martin is the founder of Pro Blog Design. He works as a freelance web designer, loves WordPress, and has an unhealthy addiction to smilies.
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Get Your WordPress Themes from PliablePress!
Anyone following me on Twitter will already know this by now, but our big project, PliablePress, went live around 24 hours ago!
And it’s been great! It’s been crazy and I’ve been chasing things around everywhere and I meant to have this post published, well, 24 hours ago, but all of that aside, it’s been great.
We’ve had loads of great reactions to the designs, and even our first happy customers!
In this post I want to show you what we’ve done so far, share some videos of the framework in action, and offer you a discount if you want to become a customer!
3 Years On, Time To Show You Who I am?
(This is more of a personal post than normal. If that’s not your thing, sorry, but at least I warned you!)
My name’s Michael Martin, and I’m the person behind Pro Blog Design. If you’ve ever emailed in, tweeted, or left a Facebook message (or most likely, even if you’ve just left a comment here!) then you’ve talked to me before.
My Ideal WordPress Framework
Last week, I broke the news that we’re releasing premium WordPress themes in 2 weeks from now.
Today, I want to talk to you about the framework we’ve built for all our themes to run on (and all of your themes too!).
When I created this framework, I had very specific ideas about what I wanted. This is the framework that I would want to use, but it’s by no means perfect. Nothing is, so I’d really love to hear what you think of it at the end.
Introducing PliablePress.
Want to know why so many of our clients in the past few months had to be turned away?
Want to see the biggest project I’ve ever worked on at Pro Blog Design?
So what is it? At its simplest, PliablePress means WordPress themes. But we’ve put everything into this, these aren’t simple little themes that you can turn out in a weekend.
How to Optimize a WordPress Database
Have you looked near your MySQL database since you first set it up? If you’re like most of us, you probably don’t go in there too often.
MySQL is complicated and unfriendly to use, and well, your site works as it is. So why bother?
If you do happen to venture in there occasionally though, you might find there are a few simple tricks you can pull to make the most of your database usage. From headache-saving tricks for you, to cranking a little more performance out of your server, check out the 7 tips below.
Write Better CSS With Best Practices
Everyone has a slightly different approach to CSS. That’s part of the reason it can be a nightmare to edit someone else’s code.
But there are a few good practices you can use in your CSS to make your stylesheets easier for you to read, and easier for anyone else that ends up modifying them in the future.
Automatic Amazon s3 Backups on Ubuntu / Debian
VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting is the next level up from shared hosting. You get a lot more server usage for each of your dollars, but the catch is that you lose all of the easiness of shared hosting.
One of the most important things you need to set up with your VPS is automatic backups. If your VPS crashes and your data is lost, your entire blogging history will be wiped out in an instant if you don’t have backups at the ready.
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