A survey was issued to the WordPress community, which resulted in more than 18,000 responses. Of that number, 2,800 make their living through WordPress, and consultants are charging an average of $58 per hour. This year, 22% of newly registered domains are running WordPress.

Towards the midpoint of the conversation, Matt talks about stamping out the Fauxgo (false WordPress logo). If you need to use an official WordPress logo, here is a great variety of official W logos.

Joost de Valk is a Dutch WordPress developer and an online marketer, blogging at Yaost.com. As I work here on the rollout of my own site I intend to document the process, pointing out some of the best solutions I discover, test and apply. Joost’s blog is a continuously valuable resource for tips, tools and plugins that he develops. His Sociable plugin is considered by many people to be the finest way to add social media buttons to your posts. The buttons include all of the top social bookmarking and commenting sites as well as the capacity to e-mail, create a pdf or print – so this one plugin covers all sorts of ground.

I am starting this project with a plain “vanilla” theme entitled Frugal by Eric Hamm. He includes a lot of encouragement and documentation with the theme in hopes that you will try modifying it and learn more about the art of coding. I just added in my own logo and will continue to grow this project right before your eyes.