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  • How to Repair and Optimize Your Database in WordPress 2.9

    January 10, 2010
    Sallie Goetsch
    2 comments on How to Repair and Optimize Your Database in WordPress 2.9

    This feature seemed especially likely to be useful to me for my older blogs, the ones that had gone through imports and exports and lots of different plugins. At first I wasn’t sure what you were supposed to do besides pasting the code define(‘WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’, true); into your config.php file. (And when I pasted it the…

    Filed under: Using WordPress
    Tagged with: WordPress Database
  • Manual Upgrades Are Not a Thing of the Past

    November 12, 2009
    Sallie Goetsch
    6 comments on Manual Upgrades Are Not a Thing of the Past

    What is it with certain webhosts? I mean, I know that none of the Fantastico-type installers have yet caught up to the fact that you can upgrade WordPress automatically from within the dashboard, so whenever you log into your control panel, it’s going to tell you that you need to upgrade even though you already…

    Filed under: Using WordPress
    Tagged with: Site Management, WordPress Hosting
  • Theme Options vs. Plugins for Controlling WordPress Features and Functions

    November 11, 2009
    Sallie Goetsch
    No comments on Theme Options vs. Plugins for Controlling WordPress Features and Functions
    Theme Options vs. Plugins for Controlling WordPress Features and Functions

      The most popular premium (and free) themes almost all have Theme Options, places where you can go in and change the way your WordPress installation work. Sometimes theme options focus mainly on design, such as letting you choose between color schemes or upload a header image. Some themes have much more elaborate options panels…

    Filed under: Using WordPress
    Tagged with: Site Management
  • But I Thought WordPress Was Supposed to Be Easy!

    August 21, 2009
    Sallie Goetsch
    2 comments on But I Thought WordPress Was Supposed to Be Easy!
    But I Thought WordPress Was Supposed to Be Easy!

    The Truth About WordPress by Sallie Goetsch of the Podcast Asylum and Jon Leland of ComBridges Recently, in a WordPress group on LinkedIn, the question was asked “Is WordPress the answer to all our prayers?” The writer was extending the conversation about his own blog post which objected vehemently to crazy claims that complete novices…

    Filed under: Using WordPress
    Tagged with: Usability, Learning WordPress
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What I Write About

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Series

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East Bay WordPress Meetup

  • Does It Work? Using The New CSS Layout with Rachel Andrew
    Description Over the past two years, we have moved from a situation where we essentially lacked a layout system for the web, to one where a complex and flexible system […] The post Does It Work? Using The New CSS Layout with Rachel Andrew appeared first on East Bay WordPress Meetup.
  • Speaker Training
    Get the workbook and slides for the October 2019 speaker training, plus background and pro tips. The post Speaker Training appeared first on East Bay WordPress Meetup.
  • SEO Audit Template & Resources
    Our November speaker, John Locke, graciously provided a template for an SEO audit report. You can download it as a Microsoft Word or PDF document. The post SEO Audit Template & Resources appeared first on East Bay WordPress Meetup.
  • How to Conduct an SEO Audit (11/18/18 Slides)
    The purpose of an SEO Audit is to give a website the best chances of ranking. It is an investigative process. Doing it properly takes time, nuance, and an understanding of context. The post How to Conduct an SEO Audit (11/18/18 Slides) appeared first on East Bay WordPress Meetup.
  • Slides: Google Tag Manager
    Anca Mosoiu demonstrates the use of Google Tag Manager for handling all of your tracking scripts and understanding the behavior of your website visitors. The post Slides: Google Tag Manager appeared first on East Bay WordPress Meetup.

About Me

Sallie Goetsch, smiling, wearing blue-framed glasses and a peacock-feather-motif jacket.
No longer a girl, but still a fan, I built my first website in 1994 and have been building with WordPress since 2005.

Contact Information

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I work from home in Oakley, 45 miles northeast of the WordPress Meetup in Oakland.
  • Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with ‘sketch’)
  • sallie [at] wpfangirl [dot] com
  • +1 (510) 969 -9947 voice/text
  • 2063 Main St #133, Oakley, CA 94561

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