October 4, 2023 — Join us to discuss the immense potential of AI technology and reveal how you can reshape your relationship with WordPress to make the most of this powerful new tool.

The talk will discuss plugins and add-ons, as well as popular websites and how to integrate time-saving techniques into your blog.

June 24, 2016 — A half hour of nonstop fun, showing how to build a complete membership powered website for $30 in just 30 minutes.

At the end, you’ll have:

– a WordPress powered website;
– restricted, membership only content;
– pay to download digital content;
– a payment gateway;

This one’s a lot of fun, I like to have a stopwatch running to see if I can get it all done in less than 30 minutes with plenty of time left for the inevitable questions.

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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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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June 14, 2012

January 27, 2012