Bill Erickson

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January 28, 2013

Any Business Questions?

I’d like to do more blog posts and conference talks on business/freelancing, but not sure exactly what I should talk about.

December 19, 2012

In Defense of Consulting Businesses

At conferences and meetings with other freelancers, a common desire I hear is to shift more of their revenue from “trade-time-for-money” services to “mailbox-money / scalable” products. As a successful service provider with no plans to shift business models, I’d like to explain my reasoning and start a discussion.

December 18, 2012

Building my Portfolio

I walk you through how I built the portfolio section of my website.

November 12, 2012

Multiple Authors for a Post

If you have a magazine-like website, you might need to specify multiple authors for a single post.

July 26, 2012

Overriding Options and Meta

One of my favorite “under-the-hood” features of WordPress and Genesis is the ability to override almost any kind of option/meta: site options, post meta, user meta, term meta….

June 19, 2012

Custom Secondary Menu

Custom Menus are great for sitewide menus, but what if you only want to list a section’s subpages? I’ll walk you through pulling the relevant subpages from your custom menu.

January 21, 2012

Admin Pages with Genesis

One of the best new features of Genesis 1.8 (and there are many) is a tool for making admin pages. These are needed if you’re building a plugin or a…

January 17, 2012

Manually Curated Related Posts

Here’s a way to specify which posts show up as “related” to the current post, as an alternative to the many plugins that automatically generate your list of related posts.

December 7, 2011

Reusing Template Files

I walk you through building your own template hierarchy, to specify which template to use under certain conditions.

November 14, 2011

Custom Metaboxes 0.7

Use this code library to easily create metaboxes with all different types of fields. I review some of the newest features to CMB 0.7