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Interested in starting your own company? Want to learn about what you should not to do, as well as what you should do? Get your questions answered here. This panel will bring together experienced professionals who have made WordPress a core … Continue reading Panel: Building a WP Development Business →

An informal unconference event which will look at the role of women in the WordPress community. We’ll look at why women make up more than half the bloggers, but usually about a quarter of WordCamp speakers, and an even smaller percentage of … Continue reading Women in WordPress →

From the perspective of migrating a large existing site into WordPress  I’ll speak on content migration, coordinating presentation across multiple installs, integrating legacy content, satisfying stakeholder requirements and minimizing developer involvement.

The Hirshhorn website uses novel sideways slider to display the content. In this talk I will be showing fragments of code that I used to create the slider as well how I extended the tinyMCE editor to provide the boxy layout … Continue reading Case Study: How I built hirshhorn.si.edu →

Not just for blogging anymore, WordPress is an effective platform for powering websites with a variety of types of content: product catalogs, store locations, employee directories, and more. Using advanced WordPress features like custom post types, store this content as … Continue reading Structured Data in WordPress →

Making the admin panel friendlier to clients is a great way to make sure they’re happy (and won’t need your help to make small updates). Fortunately WordPress provides all the functionality you need to strip down and customize the admin … Continue reading Developing a Client-Focused Admin Panel →

A study of some of the challenges encountered, and solutions discovered, in moving the Brandon University websites from IIS/ASP to WordPress.

An introduction on how to configure your .htaccess file to do more than what WordPress provides by default. The talk will cover basics like setting up a preferred URL, and redirecting old page URLs for better SEO. How to optimize … Continue reading Getting started with .htaccess for WordPress →

It’s easy to get going with WordPress theme development, but this can lead to us overlooking some fundamentals along the way. We’ll cover important aspects such as hooks, validation/sanitization, enqueuing, namespacing and The Loop, as well as how our themes … Continue reading Fundamentals of Theme Development →

Most — if not all — of us are attending WordCamp to make, use, and learn about the world’s best publishing platform, but it’s all too easy to lose focus thinking about twitter widgets, image sliders, facebook integration, and other … Continue reading Why we click publish: advocating for user centricity through interaction design →