WordPress Advanced Custom Fields

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Now this is a game-changer!! Custom Post Types and Custom Fields have always been the argument from outside the Wordpress community because admittedly it was an area that Wordpress did fall short in comparison to other types of Content Management Systems and Frameworks such as Joomla, Drupal, etc.  For quite some time there have been workaround solutions to address this need for customization but none have really been anything that I was a huge … [Read more...]

2009 Review: Open Source CMS Advancements (Poll)

Since CMS, or content management solutions, are a pivotal part of the web development industry, I thought that I would do a year-end review of the top open-source solutions that are on the market and try to highlight some areas of advancement that took place.  One thing that was evident to me in 2009 was the core advancements that were made in many of the open-source content management community. Not only did we see a lot of core improvements … [Read more...]

People Get Touchy When You Talk CMS

Recently Glen Stansberry did a post on the popular Nettuts website about the 10 most usable Content Management Solutions.  In his post he chose Wordpress as the top CMS, which wasn’t a huge surprise to me because I love Wordpress already, but it wasn’t the CMS’s that he mentioned or how he ranked them in terms of usability that generated the most commentary, it was the CMS that he excluded that raised the biggest stink… In case you … [Read more...]

Critch on Drupal Security / PCI Compliance

Resident Server Administrator and all around Linux Guru, Matt Critcher, recently posted an entry on his blog about Drupal Security and PCI compliance.  Matt has been running Drupal on his site for a while now and it seems to be working out well for him.  I always look to Matt for security issues because he has an enormous knowledgebase between his ears when it comes to that sort of thing. Making your website secure is one thing, but going … [Read more...]

Central Arkansas Refresh Meeting

Just a heads up, the Central Arkansas Refresh Group is going to have our second meeting this next week (Tuesday, March 31) at the Starbucks located at 9401 N. Rodney Parham Rd. in Little Rock.  The start time is 6:00pm and we expect the meetup to last about 2 hours but with all of the networking that went on last week it’s hard to say what time we all need to tell our families that we will be home.  Also, if you haven’t already, … [Read more...]