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Is Cybersecurity One Word or Two?
Is Cybersecurity One Word Or Two? Cyber attacks and cyber attackers figure in mainstream news nearly every day. With this level of exposure, it starts to matter whether you know how to spell things. When it comes to cybersecurity, the answer is that it’s one word, even though other, related terms—like the ‘cyber attacks’ above—are…
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A Book Table of Contents in an eBook World
If you publish a long-form content piece on the web, you really owe it to your readers to provide navigational help. That seems obvious, but most things online that call themselves books (just one way of singling out long-form material) don’t go very far out of their way. If there’s any plain-old book table of…
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Ebook Marketing in 2022
There’s more than one reason why you might want to write an eBook. You might want to establish yourself as an authority on a subject. You might want to sell copies of the eBook, though be forewarned that it’s not necessarily easy to sell conventional eBooks. Finally (and most likely), you’re looking into eBook creation…
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Blockchain in WordPress in 2022
If you land in certain corners of the Twittersphere, you’ll find yourself surrounded by people who are wildly enthusiastic believers in the power of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) to change the relationship between creators and consumers. By extension, they are at least a little enthusiastic about cryptocurrency as a means to an end, though they are…
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Theft Revisited: What Gatsby JS Should Steal from WordPress in 2022
A long, long year ago, it seemed prudent to bring up a few things that worked well in WordPress that were missing in Gatsbyjs. For instance, one-click exchangeable Gatsby js themes. Some, but not many, of those holes have been filled in various ways, but others remain (and probably will remain). But time has pushed…
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Creator Coins: What Are They and What Do They Offer?
All on my very own I started thinking that a genuinely new angle on book publishing might be offering crypto coins related to the book. Or possibly the author. It turns out these things already exist and they are called creator coins. As usual, the internet was a bit ahead of me on this (though…
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The WordPress Developer in 2021
I suspect that being a WordPress developer isn’t especially fashionable these days. You’re not a rat fink or a fool if you’re a WP developer, but you’re not the it kid. At least not in the developer crowd. WordPress has just been around too long to be the thing. That said, developing software in the…
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Future URL
One thing I always wished I’d had in my last “real” job (as an editorial director) was a way to link from web content I was currently writing to content I knew we were creating in the near future. A future URL. Of course, I could have just written in the links, but they’d by…
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Over-And-Under Static WordPress
Proponents of GraphQL interfaces are quick to point out that this approach allows you to easily use WordPress as a headless Content Management System (CMS) with a static site serving as your front end. They’re not wrong. And as a developer, using the WPGraphQL interface is a lovely experience. With this approach, you create something…
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what is a static site generator?
There are lots of static site generators (SSGs) out there these days, coupled to a lot of different headless content management systems (CMSs), using various development frameworks, running with various templating languages, and making life seem a lot more complicated than it probably needs to be. But you may still be scratching your head and…
