Stephanie Leary — Writer, Front End Developer, former WordPress consul...

Denver ComicCon’s Women in Comics panel on Saturday featured… no women. Let’s have the allmalepanels Hasselhoff of approval, folks:
When asked about this, the convention’s PR rep responded with a prime example of how not to respond to questions about your problematic programming:...

I’m getting spoiled by self-published authors and the services that cater to them. Big publishers are increasingly disappointing in comparison.
One of the most baffling aspects of big publishing is that publishers generally don’t know who their readers are. Other than people they meet at conventions or New York readings, they simply have no idea who’s reading their books, because those people...

An astonishing percentage of what I do with my clients’ web copy involves eradicating the phrase “click here” from their links. For more information, click here.
You see it everywhere. Everyone’s doing it, so it must be a best practice, right?
Wrong. It’s the worst possible practice. You should never, ever use “click here” in a web link....

At long last, Content Strategy for WordPress is available everywhere! This is a relatively short book—less than half as long as WordPress for Web Developers was—and it’s aimed at a more general audience. Paradoxically, I’ve been working on it twice as...