January 11, 2013 — Lessons from the road making a successful & popular premium WordPress plugin. Shane shares the strategies his company employed to be profitable and the mistakes they made while learning.

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January 11, 2013 — An introduction to the Multisite feature of WordPress that will help you understand what Multisite is, how to activate the features on you WordPress.org installation, and a walk through of basic features of Multisite. This is followed by several use case scenarios and examples to assist you in determining if Multisite is a viable solution for your next WordPress project.

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January 10, 2013 — How do you build a newspaper with WordPress, what steps do you need to take and how you can avoid some common pitfalls.

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January 8, 2013 — Michael Bastos’ goal in this presentation is simple: To get you from having no EC2 account to having a running server using your domain name all the way to the WordPress Install screen.

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January 8, 2013 — In this presentation, Brandon Dove identifies key parts of the WordPress community, highlights some core features of WordPress, and gives resources for new users of WordPress.

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January 4, 2013 — This presentation is an in-depth look at a powerful object-oriented programming technique: dependency injection. Michael will review the basic concepts behind writing small classes for WordPress plugins and how to get your objects working together through the use of an injection container. He’ll then proceed to more advanced techniques for managing multiple object dependencies, dependencies within dependencies, and class autoloading.

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January 4, 2013 — Ryan Green discusses the most prevalent WordPress theme frameworks and the pros & cons of each through the lens of a User Experience professional.

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January 4, 2013 — John Housholder discusses the future of WordPress in Nashville, the Nashville Meetup, WP Nashville, and future business opportunities within the WordPress community in Nashville.

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December 26, 2012 — As the title implies, this is the entry-point for all those new to WordPress. If you think posts are for fencing, and you’re wondering how it pressess all those words, you’ll be whipped into prime WP Shape and ready to hit the ground running by the close of this one session.

December 23, 2012 — Brad will talk about ways that blogging hobbyists can take their passion to the next level. Topics will include workflow, search engine utilization, content sharing networks, how to approach larger publications for guest posting and potential revenue sources.

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