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WordPress isn’t just about knowing the software, or knowing how to edit the code. It is far more. A skilled WordPress user has a host of tools at their disposal to create awesomeness. There are many useful plugins, resources, and … Continue reading Tips and Tricks to Make Any Beginning WordPress User a Star →

It’s easy to get enamored with all that you can make WordPress do. Ecommerce. Membership. Private forums and social networks. And the motherload, building a supercharged subscription-based-membership site complete with a private social network which passively generates income for a … Continue reading Bringing Craft Back to Content →

What is Re-factoring? We as developers tend to be time crunched on projects, in some cases we are so caught up in just trying to get something to work that we end up leaving our code written in an inefficient … Continue reading Plugin and Theme Refactoring →

I will identify common UI elements in the WordPress admin and discuss how you can take advantage of those elements when developing your own plugin. One of the most frustrating things I encounter is when a plugin developer decides that … Continue reading Utilizing the WordPress Dashboard UI in Your Plugin →

Leading (or co-leading as the case may be) a release is drastically different from contributing to one. This talk will involve Q&A around 3.6 or around what it’s been like to try to balance family, work, and co-leading a release. … Continue reading WordPress 3.6 – What’s coming/Q & A →

Want to contribute to core, but unsure how to proceed? No problem! This session will walk you through the contributor groups in WordPress.org, and help you better understand how the project is run. You’ll learn what the process from code … Continue reading Decoding Core Contribution →

Learn how to use custom post types and taxonomies to do advanced content management such as: * Sliders * Callout boxes * People Listings * Reusable Static Content (e.g. terms of service, privacy policy) * HTML Emails * Locations * … Continue reading Custom Post Types For Advanced Content Management →

There are a few tricks that go into correctly using JavaScript in WordPress themes. In this talk, I’ll show you the correct way to add JavaScript to your themes and step through a few examples showing how jQuery plugins can … Continue reading Adding jQuery Magic to WordPress Themes →