Category Archives: General Awesomeness
Beginning Plugin Development
Wow, can you believe we are only a week away from WordCamp Orange County?!? I’m very excited to be a presenter and I’m looking forward to sharing my presentation on Beginning Plugin Development. Though, I really hope you aren’t looking forward to a PowerPoint presentation… I just don’t roll like that. Instead, during the session [...]
Your WordPress Plugin Idea Built Live
During this session, I will be creating a new plugin from scratch. And with my eyes closed and my hands tied behind my back. Not really, but that would be way cooler! My goal is to provide real insight into the plugin creation process. Together, we’ll walk through the planning process, basic documentation and then [...]
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5 Lucky Attendees
Thanks to Wiley (@WileyTech), publisher of all kinds of awesome WordPress books, five lucky attendees will be walking away from Orange County WordCamp with one of the fine titles shown below. Professional WordPress WordPress 24-Hour Trainer Smashing WordPress WordPress Bible Teach Yourself VISUALLY WordPress
Also posted in Community Support, Sponsors Tagged Wiley, WordPress Books, WordPress Raffle, Wrox 2 Comments
WordPress as a Content Management System
Many people I’ve worked with on projects hear “WordPress” and immediately say that it is just for people who want to run a blog. This is no longer true. WordPress has come a long way and a lot of designers and developers are using it to create some very impressive projects. Current State of Content [...]
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Pimp Your WordPress Plugin
Most WordPress Plugins are little more than small utilities but there are a growing number of them that can dramatically augment the way WordPress behaves or give WordPress advanced new features. Platform Modifying Plugins I like to refer to these plugins as Platform Modifying Plugins (PMPs or Pimps) because even though they exist in the [...]
Also posted in Presentation Topics Tagged AJAX, Database, Deployment, Design Pattern, Java, Model View Controller, MVC, Optimization, plugin, Routing, Ruby on Rails, Translation, wordpress 9 Comments
Theme Workshop
Join me for a theme workshop titled “Customizing your WordPress theme: Best Practices” . The workshop is targeted towards beginners interested in learning how to customize a WordPress theme the “right way”. It will focus on six best practices relating to theme customization. An overview of each practice will be presented followed by a live [...]
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How to Create a Premium WordPress Plugin
One of the biggest misconceptions among WordPress plugin developers is that you can’t legitimately make money from your plugins. This is complete bunk — the truth is if you develop a plugin that complies with the GPL and provides value to your users there are actually many ways to legitimately make money from it. In [...]
Also posted in Presentation Topics Tagged GPL, Legal, Making Money, Marketing, monetization, plugins, premium wordpress plugin, Strategy, wordcamp, wordpress 12 Comments
Oops! Did I Scare You?
You may have noticed a little grey box that says “Woopra” at the bottom right hand side of your browser when you visit this site and may not have thought anything of it. It’s a simple thing to overlook, but I can assure you that it’s something you should be paying a lot of attention [...]
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