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  • Story Lines plugin section on a post

    Story Lines updated to version 2.1

    February 28, 2023

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    Story Lines

    After a two-year break, the Story Lines WordPress plugin has been updated to make the block better for your website. Also, there’s a plan for updating the block this year.

    Continue Reading: Story Lines updated to version 2.1
  • Custom fields for the Read More About plugin

    Read More About updated to version 2.1

    February 14, 2023

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    Read More About

    After a two-year break, the Read More About WordPress plugin has been updated to make the block better for your website. Also, there’s a plan for updating the block this year.

    Continue Reading: Read More About updated to version 2.1
  • JM Live Blog in action on a post

    JM Breaking News updated to version 2.1

    January 30, 2023

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    JM Live Blog

    After a two-year break, the JM Live Blog WordPress plugin has been updated to make the block better for your website. Also, there’s a plan for updating the block this year.

    Continue Reading: JM Breaking News updated to version 2.1
  • Computer screen with the VideoPlace homepage

    VideoPlace updated to version 2.1

    January 30, 2023

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    VideoPlace

    After a two-year break, the VideoPlace WordPress theme has been updated to use the theme.json feature with WordPress core. Also, there’s a plan for updating the theme this year.

    Continue Reading: VideoPlace updated to version 2.1
  • JM Breaking News banner on a website running the Giornalismo theme

    JM Breaking News updated to version 2.1

    January 15, 2023

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    JM Breaking News

    After a two-year break, the JM Breaking News WordPress plugin has been updated to make the block better for your website. Also, there’s a plan for updating the block this year.

    Continue Reading: JM Breaking News updated to version 2.1
  • The Featured Content Block in the block editor in WordPress

    Introducting the Featured Content Block WordPress plugin

    November 15, 2022

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    Featured Content Block

    The Featured Content Block plugin is now available in the WordPress Plugin Directory. This plugin will allow a user to select specific post or other custom post type to show on a page, like the homepage. You can download it from the WordPress plugin directory or this website.

    Continue Reading: Introducting the Featured Content Block WordPress plugin
  • three people looking at a physical map of a city

    Introducing the JM Simple Small Business Local SEO WordPress plugin

    December 13, 2021

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    JM Simple Small Business Local SEO

    Local SEO is key for every small business. So I’ve created the JM Simple Small Business Local SEO plugin to help you add the right Local SEO schema to your website to get found in “near me” searches.

    Continue Reading: Introducing the JM Simple Small Business Local SEO WordPress plugin
  • A selection of the page designs for the Portafoglio portfolio theme

    Introducing the Portafoglio Portfolio WordPress Theme

    December 2, 2021

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    Portafoglio, WordPress

    Since portfolio websites are extremely popular, I’m starting to work on a WordPress portfolio theme that can help you stand out from the crowd. Here’s what you can expect from the Portafoglio WordPress theme when it’s released.

    Continue Reading: Introducing the Portafoglio Portfolio WordPress Theme
  • The WordPress Plugin directory screen on a laptop

    Plugins in the WordPress directory finally updated

    December 21, 2019

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    JM Breaking News, JM Live Blog, Read More About, Story Lines, WordPress

    After nearly a year break, I’ve updated each of the four main plugins I have in the WordPress plugin directory. Sorry about the wait.

    Continue Reading: Plugins in the WordPress directory finally updated
  • Computer screen with the Nuovo homepage

    The start of what will be a very, very long process: building a WordPress theme

    October 17, 2013

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    Nuovo

    So I’ve finally decided that I’m going to tackle the beast. That beast just so happens to be creating a WordPress theme and successfully getting it into the WordPress Theme Directory. I have learned from prior experiences that that is no easy task, but I can also say that I’ve learned a lot since then…

    Continue Reading: The start of what will be a very, very long process: building a WordPress theme
  • Computer screen with the Nuovo homepage

    Hurdles cleared to get started on ‘Nuovo’ WordPress theme

    December 19, 2013

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    Nuovo

    Roughly two months or so after I kind of got started on developing a WordPress theme for the WordPress theme directory, I’m ready to get serious about starting to create this theme thanks to the final hurdle cleared to begin the build.

    Continue Reading: Hurdles cleared to get started on ‘Nuovo’ WordPress theme
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