Jayvie is many things:

I'm a Maryland resident. A self-avowed WordPress Whisperer, I use it in all my projects. I take lovely photos, go to the gym a lot, and opine strongly over design, aesthetics, and politics. I'm a heavy Twitter user, a moderate Flickr participant and in my spare time I help people at the SemperFi WP Support forums. Read more about me.

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Menu Label: a new feature for AIOSEOP

Have you found yourself hardcoding your page-based navigation menus in your theme because wp_list_pages doesn’t display your page titles the way you want to with the function? This site serves as a great example: where it says “Colophon” in my menu under the title? It links to a page whose title is “Production Notes.” With the latest feature from All-In-One SEO Pack by Michael Torbert, you won’t have to! Here’s a quick tutorial on how:

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The costs of Free

Recently, Michael Torbert, developer of the popular All-In-One SEO Pack (AIOSEOP) plugin, released a major upgrade to, among various other bugfixes and feature enhancements, future-proof the plugin against scaling issues. I worked with him on beta-testing the upgrade, and found it to be flawless. I was one of many, but gauging by the reaction of a few, there were not enough of us who did the testing.

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A guide to upgrading to AIOSEOP v1.6.1

Update on July 12, 7PM: A sweet welcome to WordPress.org users, now that this guide is linked from the AIOSEOP plugin page itself: Please don’t mind the scoldy, crabby, acerbic tone. If you do, skip all the commentary and just read the instructions that serve as captions to my screenshots. This was written due in part to a few posts in a forum where the main complaint stemmed from an inability to understand the instructions after upgrading. That said, the information in these screenshots is helpful, despite my meanness. What little instructional material I am wont to write is not always like this. What follows is the post as originally published.

Michael Torbert has released a major upgrade to his landmark WordPress plugin, All-In-One SEO Pack. It has a few new features but more importantly, it is even further optimized to make it easier on your database. A lot of it is technical mumbo jumbo that even I don’t quite understand, but what I do understand is that some folks still have a hard time reading natural-language instructions. Kudos to Michael for not going down the “click here” route, but some issues at the Semper Fi Support Forums are demanding a more comprehensive answer. Here’s a step by step screenshot thing guide:

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A retrospective of WordPress Classic

In God Emperor Of Dune, Leto II Atreides ruled for almost four thousand years as tyrant of humanity. In doing so, he created a desire for people to be free, and ensured that they will never stagnate and fall victim to the need for a single commodity for existence.

Back in 2002 I started to learn web design from a code-based perspective. The CSS techniques we now consider standard were at the time, groundbreaking. Grey Matter, Blogger, and Movable Type were the frameworks of the day, while I started poking around with a then-little-known program called B2. Fast forward a few months, and a then-little-known guy named Matt Mullenweg decided to fork B2 into a new project, called WordPress.

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Hashtag contests are hurting Twitter

“Ugliness is so grim. A little beauty, something that is lovely, I think, can help create harmony which will lessen tensions.”
Lady Bird Johnson

Just as the plethora of billboards ruined the skylines of Route 66 and other great highways of the past, advertising today in its most blatant forms has invaded any mental domain imaginable. Nowhere is safe, definitely not Twitter. It’s no surprise that online marketing and advertising would pounce on a free medium to promote their wares. To a point, I don’t blame them. Publicity is king; notoriety can be manufactured into benefit. Like I said, to a point.

Squarespace understood that point. They offered a free iPhone (actually a $199 gift card at an Apple Store). Each mention, each day, constituted an entry. Soon enough, the density of messages that had the #squarespace hashtag became deafening. Even their statement that one entry a day was enough was not enough for some some people. So Squarespace decided to reduce the noise even more and said that one entry serves in perpetuity.

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