We are very excited to be holding our first WordPress Beginner Workshop this Saturday, September 29th! The Tadpole team has spent the last few weeks putting together the curriculum for our beginner course, a day-long session that covers all the basics of WordPress, and goes beyond. Everything from installation, to creating and organizing content, to customization of your […]
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The first “Getting Started with WordPress” workshop is scheduled for Saturday, September 29. The workshop is intended for beginners or for those seeking to explore WordPress as a platform for their business or non-profit website or blog. NEW YORK, NY (PRWeb) – August 23, 2012 Tadpole Collective, LLC, a fledgling workers’ cooperative started by five
Tadpolers Andy Christian and Kevin Cristiano are going to be busy travelers for the next couple of months. They’ll be attending both WordCamp Baltimore on September 8th, and WordCamp Philly on October 21st-22nd. Everyone at Tadpole is also heavily involved in the New York WordPress community. Four of five members helped organize this year’s WordCamp NYC — and Tadpoler Melissa
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These days it seems everyone expects you to have a website if you provide any product or service. A website works as a business card, as a way to represent yourself to the world. But your website can also be your administration center, meaning: your website is so much more than what people see when
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A year ago I signed up for Dropbox and soon I had filled up my free 2GB. The service was great and easy to use, so I opted for the paid version. I was delighted when I saw this cartoon at the completion of my purchase: Ha! No point to that, right? Spending time drawing
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Tadpole.cc is a worker collective made up of five people who use open source software (specifically WordPress and CiviCRM) for their client and personal projects, and who have agreed to work in cooperation with one another. But what does it mean, exactly, to be part of a “collective” and what do open source software and
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From time to time I receive calls from clients that find out that they don’t have as much control of their websites as they thought they did. Common issues are that they may not have access to their Control Panel, they may not have backups or they may not be able to change their DNS
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One of the most confusing features of WordPress is Custom Post Formats (not to be confused with Custom Post Types). Post Formats allow you to tell WordPress what kind of media is involved with your post. The format types are: aside – Similar to a Facebook note update. gallery – A gallery of images. link
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Anne Kadet’s recent Metro Money column in the WSJ posits that New York is a “Techie Magnet”, although she puts forth her argument a bit halfheartedly. Kadet centers the piece on Rohan Deuskar, an entrepreneur who moved his start-up from Philadelphia to New York to be closer to the scene (fashion, in his case) despite the
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