July 14, 2013 — This presentation talks about content migration, coordinating presentation across multiple installs, integrating legacy content, satisfying stakeholder requirements and minimizing developer involvement.

July 13, 2013 — Relevanssi replaces the default search with a partial-match search that sorts results by relevance. It also indexes comments and shortcode content.

July 13, 2013 — A walk through the Genesis Framework, and it’s use of hooks and filters to enable rapid web development. An introduction to the new Admin Class to make admin pages simple and easy. A review of development tools especially for the Genesis Framework. A quick review of Genesis-only plugins.

July 12, 2013 — Learn how to tear apart your static HTML wire-frame, and create a dynamic WordPress theme from it. Famous WP features such as custom fields / post types, and feature images are used. Learn how to use the powerful wp_query function to pull a specific list of articles / posts from your database in different orders.

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July 9, 2013 — Learn about structured data features, custom plugin and theme development, and mobile device optimization.

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July 8, 2013 — This presentation talks about using Scoped CSS to create striking exceptions for various content elements in WordPress.

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July 7, 2013 — This presentation shows fragments of code that was used to create the slider as well how I extended the tinyMCE editor to provide the boxy layout used on the hirshhorn.si.edu site.

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July 7, 2013 — This presentation discusses the true power behind WordPress’ roles and capabilities system, map_meta_cap. Starting with an overview of how it relates to the system as a whole, then some real-world examples to demonstrate how the map_meta_cap function and filter can be properly used to fully leverage WordPress’ capabilities system.

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July 6, 2013 — This presentation covers: What is a plugin? When to use a plugin for your WordPress project vs. a theme function; Best practices for plugin structure, unique naming conventions; Creating a secure settings page for your plugin; Sanitizing and storing your plugin data, the WordPress way; Safely retrieving data from your plugin and using it in a theme; What to do when a plugin is deactivated, or uninstalled; Structuring a WordPress readme.txt file; Submitting a plugin to the WordPress.org repository.

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July 6, 2013 — This presentation goes into several code examples starting with a simple one what explains how to create a new re-sized image from a random file on disk, explaining how you can write your own implementation and shows code on how to implement WPThumb as the WordPress main image manipulator.

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