ContentRobot put our plugins – iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme and Google Website Optimizer Plugin – through their paces and we’ve deemed them to be WordPress 2.5 compatible! As always, the iWPhone plugin does not play nicely with WP-Super Cache (or any caching plugins), but there is no change to the installation and usage. Even … Read More
ContentRobot.com is on WordPress 2.5
PSST! Did you know that up until recently that ContentRobot’s company website had been running atop of *gasp* Drupal? Yes “the WordPress experts” finally converted to this superior platform when we launched our “naked theme” site last month. While we were hoping to be farther along and show off parts of our new look, we … Read More
WordPress Launches v2.5
Over the weekend, WordPress launched version 2.5. We have been playing with a beta copy and have been very impressed. If you check out WordPress.org, you’ll even see new site design that aligns with what the software looks like. According to WordPress (and a bit of commentary by ContentRobot), here are the goodies you can … Read More
Client Site Hacks and Other Musings
Seth Godin wrote a post today about “managing urgencies.” In ContentRobot’s world, if a client site goes down, it’s our urgent responsibility to stop whatever we are doing to get their site fixed and back online. Yesterday, a highly trafficked, highly customized blog-powered website, was hacked. We tracked it down to a malicious script that … Read More
ContentRobot’s Redesign Philosophy
So, now that we have our “starter” 3-column theme out there – how will we structure the new site? We did an audit of our site and realized that it screamed “blogging!” Now, that the concept of blogging is much more mainstream, we’ve decided that a much more simplified, Web 2.0 approach was required for … Read More
Designing and Developing a WordPress Theme
What you are currently seeing on our site is ContentRobot’s “starter” WordPress theme. Dubbed “New3Column2pt0,” this simple shell contains very minimal styling and acts mainly to display the most basic 3 column functionality with an added Web 2.0 footer feature area. We have a collection of various “starter” themes with either one, two or three … Read More
ContentRobot is Poised for a Redesign
Soon, the ContentRobot site will look very different; in fact, you’ll think it’s quite broken and that we are insane to not “fix it.” But there is a method to our madness. Have you ever wondered what it was like to watch the evolution of a site being built? Do you know what it takes … Read More
Skiing Does Refresh the Blogger’s Soul
Our last post described a very hairy week for ContentRobot. We had hoped that the weekend and a day of skiing would allow us to put it to rest and refresh. It worked! We were able to hit the slopes and remember that ContentRobot had successfully worked through our issues. Our