Within the last few months, I have written several guest posts on Freelance Folder that focus on topics relating to web site design and development. As I spread my wings in the blogging world, I’ve recently been approached by Mashable about contributing a WordPress related post to their blog.

Mashable is the world’s largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Media news. With more than 6 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific blog reviewing new Web sites and services, publishing breaking news on what’s new on the web and offering social media resources and guides.

Given Mashable’s popularity, you can imagine my surprise at the invitation – one that I could not turn down!

Top 10 WordPress Plugins to Promote Your Social Media Profiles

As I focus more and more on designing and developing custom WordPress themes for clients, I’ve realized that there is a core set of plugins that I regularly setup with every new site.

My latest guest post on Freelance Folder details some of the basic and essential first steps…

10 Essential Plugins Every Modern WordPress Site Should Have

I just launched the re-design of this blog last month, even though I didn’t feel it was 100% ready yet. In thinking of ways to enhance the blog, and make some tweaks to things such as the sidebar and footer, etc., I came across several very helpful posts on the subject.

There seems to be an unlimited number of things you can do to tweak your blog template. Suggestions to make it both more design and user friendly. I’ve already begun implementing a few of the tweaks, and can’t wait to work on some more.