Author Siobhan McKeown

November 4, 2022 — Transparency is part of the fabric of many remote businesses. It doesn’t, however, come naturally to everyone, especially if you’ve only recently become remote. In this article, Siobhan takes you through some of the practical ways that you can build transparency within your organization. Read more…

May 10, 2013 — Part of WordPress’ success is that the community consists not only of developers, but of designers, user experience experts, support volunteers, writers, users, accessibility experts and enthusiasts. This diverse input strengthens the project. In this article, Siobhan McKeown will talk about the different contributor groups and how you can take part. But first, why should you get involved with WordPress? Read more…

March 20, 2013 — Recently Siobhan McKeown shared some advice from the WordPress community to beginners. But what if you’re already so immersed in the world of WordPress that you dream of the latest thing you’ve achieved with custom post types? Below are some tips from WordPress pros from across the community! Read more…

February 21, 2013 — Rather than write another article on building a WordPress theme, Siobhan McKeown shares with us techniques that will help us refine our workflow, saving our time and making us more efficient on our theme development and design process. Read more…

February 1, 2013 — Siobhan McKeown reached out to people from across the WordPress community to ask what advice they would give to people just starting their WordPress journey. This article is a result of their insight, and we hope that it provides some encouragement and guidance to newbies. Read more…

December 5, 2012 — WordPress makes it easy for people to publish a blog or website; it democratizes Web publishing. In this post, Siobhan McKeown takes a look at how you can be a top WordPress professional. This advice could apply to developers, but equally to bloggers, support reps, designers and everyone in between. Read more…

October 10, 2012 — What hacks are WordPress users particularly vulnerable to? How do they get in? What do they do to a WordPress website? Siobhan McKeown provides more context about the things you need to protect yourself from. Read more…

September 26, 2012 — Siobhan McKeown looks at some successful implementations of BuddyPress. Five communities that are using BuddyPress, some big, some small, some established, some emerging, some successful and some unsuccessful. Read more…

September 12, 2012 — Siobhan McKeown spoke with the developers behind some of the biggest WordPress blogs on the planet. Now, she shares their secrets with you. Read more…

July 4, 2012 — In this article, we’ll look at writing documentation for a WordPress plugin, theme or product. Most of the information can be applied to documentation for other software types, but we’ll look at some WordPress-specific aspects. In my experience, the quality of documentation in WordPress plugins and themes varies widely. Read more…

June 21, 2012 — WordPress businesses are springing up all of the time. Some of them succeed, some of them fail, and some of them go global. Last month, I wrote a post on Smashing Magazine about the thriving WordPress economy. Read more…

May 11, 2012 — All over the world people are getting together to talk about WordPress. Developers, designers, bloggers, writers, small-business owners, software engineers, system admins, mobile developers, BuddyPress developers, SEO experts, consultants, people ranging from absolute beginners to WordPress ninjas, and everyone in between. Read more…

April 12, 2012 — In a post on her blog last year, WordPress designer, business woman and author, Lisa Sabin Wilson, talked about how thankful she is to be part of the WordPress economy. It’s an economy that thousands of people, the world over, are benefiting from (including me!). It is an economy built on free, open source software. Read more…

April 12, 2012 — In a post on her blog last year, WordPress designer, business woman and author Lisa Sabin Wilson talked about how thankful she is to be part of the WordPress economy. Read more…

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February 8, 2012 — 2011 was a great year for WordPress, with some excellent new updates that saw the introduction of a drag-and-drop uploader, distraction-free writing, the HTML5 Twenty Eleven theme, and movement towards a fully responsive dashboard. As well as changes to WordPress core, theme development continued to evolve, as whispers of responsive design spread like wildfire across the WordPress community. Read more…

January 13, 2012 — A few weeks ago I wrote about how you can put together a great readme.txt for the WordPress plugin directory. In addition to using a WordPress readme as a tool to help out your users, you can use it to promote your commercial products and services. Read more…

November 23, 2011 — If you’re a plugin developer and you just love to write code, then writing a readme.txt file for a plugin in WordPress’ repository might be your idea of hell. When you’ve written all of that lovely code, why must you spend time writing about how to use it? Read more…