December 15, 2013 — The presentation includes tips for how to encourage other members of the WordPress development community to contribute to your plugin and theme projects. Many of the lessons learned and presented come from several years of experience with managing plugins that have very active community contributions.
December 15, 2013 — This talk shows you how to use custom post meta data and the body_class filter to define custom layouts for both static pages and single blog posts. As a bonus, it shows you how to use custom post metaboxes, rather than forcing users to deal with custom fields.
December 14, 2013 — This talk discusses how to use WordPress to tell better stories that lead visitors to action. It also deconstructs successful sites and looks at external systems that interface with WordPress to help us maximize our digital presence.
December 14, 2013 — This talk is a look at what it is about WordPress that makes it a great choice for start-ups to crank out their MVP.
December 13, 2013 — The great thing about our WordPress community is, while there is always going to be someone (or hundreds) of people who know more about something than any single individual, we all bring something unique to the table. It’s my hope that I validate some things you are doing right, shine some light on some areas you maybe hadn’t thought of before – or things you just haven’t had the courage to do or say.
December 13, 2013 — Project Argo was a project at NPR, funded by the Knight Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, to build topic-based verticals at member stations around the country. Those 12 beat blogs were built on a set of WordPress-based tools built under the Argo banner.
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December 12, 2013 — We will discuss common issues that can face WordPress service providers, ranging from how to get more clients, pricing, contracts, project management, staying up-to-date, finding other people to hire or work with, marketing, sales, etc.
December 12, 2013 — Introducing WordPress 3.8 “Parker”, a release — named after Charlie Parker — that introduces a redesigned, responsive admin, theme browser, and a new magazine theme, Twenty Fourteen. You can learn more about the release here.
December 12, 2013 — This is a tale of a theme, from its early stages of research through to the first steps into wireframes and the move into a prototype. It’s a tale of joy, sadness and a dash of danger as browsers are fought and code tamed. This is a story that doesn’t include Photoshop but that does include designing in code. It’s a story we all know variations of and this is my version. This is the story of my design process and how I create themes.