AJ Morris
Product Coach and Consultant
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Did you know I’m one of three most important people in WordPress?
Remember that whole Thesis vs. WordPress debate that lasted a few minutes some time ago? Matt tweeted something about getting a T-shirt if you contacted him via his blog. Well I started my morning out with a trip to the PO box to see if anything was there (really I was hoping a check from…
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Great Looking Headway Designed Sites
In continuing my discussion from my previous post about Headway Designers, a comment by MommyGeek, made me think it was time to highlight Designers that went above and beyond and made really great examples of what you can do with this awesome theme. So I took a look through Ownen Greaves post about Headway themed…
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My Issue with Headway “Designers”
Headway theme is a great WordPress theme for the DIYer’s and the developer. If you’re looking to create a blog or a 1.0 site for your business. It’s a theme that allows you to create a site without having to code. You don’t need to know CSS or PHP or even a lot about WordPress.…
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Calling All Freelancers…
Do you like freelancing as much as I do? Well I’m looking for any freelancer anyone that’s used a freelance website before. More specifically I’m looking for what the URL is and why or why didn’t you like it. I’m exploring some now, and figured I could get a better idea if I just asked…
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Screencasts Anyone?
I wanted to take a moment to give you an update as to why I haven’t been posting here lately. First, things got super busy at my day job, trying to get a new release out the door, which should hopefully be pretty soon. Second, I’ve gotten quite a few new new clients I’ve had…
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Twenty Ten: A Walkthrough
Continuing on our WordPress 3.0 journey, today we’re taking a look at the new default theme, Twenty Ten. It’s replacing Kubrick, a theme that has been installed with WordPress since 2005. I didn’t go in as deep of depth as I would have like, for instance,
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Using Permalinks in Development
Today’s screencast is #2 of my series about WordPress 3.0 and a local development environment. It’s all about getting Permalinks working on your local system. Of course this only applies to people using Mac OS X, but the same methods should apply. Watch the video below, or watch it in HD!
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New WordPress Development Series
I’m sponsoring a new WordPress screencast series about setting up your local development and some of the new 3.0 features. Over the next couple weeks, we’ll be taking a look at things like, setting up your development machine, using permalinks locally, TwentyTen and child themes, menu management, and much more. I encourage you to check…
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WordPress 3.0 has been Released!
A big congratulations goes to every developer out there that has coded, documented, screencasted, and so much more for the release of WordPress 3.0! I was planning on doing an overview video of some of the features I covered in a previous article,
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Covering WordPress 3.0 Features
In my last post I had a brief overview of some features from WordPress 3.0. I’m currently working on about 5 to 6 screencasts to cover them, but unfortunately I do not have one done today. Instead I thought I’d ask you if you’ve played with WordPress 3.0 (It went into RC3 last Friday, June…
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My Daily Routine
Do you ever wake up feeling like you just don’t get enough done in the day? Are you tried by mid-afternoon only feeling like your list is as long as it was when you first started the day?? I’ve been there. I even wrote about how I plan my week. But let’s talk about each day.…
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Quit Shooting for Perfection. It’s a Fallacy.
One of the things that are always against us, is ourselves. I say that as a perfectionist. Any perfectionist will tell you the same thing. It plays games in your mind. It paints this picture of what something should look like, but no matter what, you struggle to hit that goal.. Most of the time,…
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Understanding How to Deal with Seasonality in Sales
I’m the son of an entrepreneur.. You see, my dad started his own business while he was still in high school with his father. They started a bicycle shop. My dad was always working on his friends’ bicycles in the garage. My grandpa saw that as an opportunity and they decided to open the shop.…
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On Taking Breaks
Over the last few months, I’ve really been enjoying the weekends. We’ve been doing a little bit of road trip traveling (I call it that because it’s something where we can visit <10 hours of drive time) and spending time at the cottage.. It’s good to unplug; get away from technology, and enjoy the outdoors.…
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Stop Feeling Overwhelmed By Your Work
I used to feel completely overwhelmed each day. I was one of those that had a never-ending to-do list, that only got longer every meeting I attended. I can’t tell you the number of times that I ended the day feeling more overwhelmed with the amount of work that I had to do than when…
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Here’s my full list of questions I ask before starting a project
When I started freelancing, I didn’t fully understand all the questions I should ask when scoping and pricing out a project. However, as the years when on and I took on more projects, I have collected a list of questions I ask for every project I take on.. If you are looking at getting into…
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Zoom Fatigue is Real. Here’s How to Combat It
Everyone I have been talking to lately seems to be over Zoom. They are tired of having every single meeting be on zoom. Anytime you need to discuss something with a co-worker, it seems to be “let’s jump on Zoom” and talk through it. . The problem isn’t that we want to communicate. Because we…
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Teaching is Everything
For as long as I can remember, I’ve always enjoyed sharing everything that I’ve learned along my journey. It could be because I’m become a parent and a father and spend a lot of my day teaching my kids, whether it’s putting on shoes or getting them dressed, or even teaching them how to play…
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Day 1: 30 Days of Clicking Publish
I was chatting with my good friend Cory Miller recently about his 30 Days of Clicking Publish. I wanted to see how it was going. It sparked too many questions and it got me thinking… I logged into my WordPress dashboard to run some plugin updates and happened to look at how many drafts I…
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Launching My First Course: Chimp.Coach
I am excited to announce that I am launching my first course, Chimp.Coach. I’ve been wanting to create a course for some time. In fact, I actually have several in the work, but I have failed to get them complete and launched. Likely for many reasons I can list. But the other day a good…