July 15, 2013 — This presentation talks about how to find the best WordPress plugin for your site.

July 15, 2013 — Learn the “right way” to include javascripts in your theme or plugin and how to pass variables and translated strings to your scripts.

July 14, 2013 — Techniques, tools, and examples on how to debug WordPress development issues.

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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