WordPress 3 & Parent-Child Themes from WordCamp Vancouver

If you missed WordCamp Vancouver and wanted more than the slides I posted previously, now you can watch Catherine Winters & I talk about WordPress 3.0 just a short while before it came out: As Catherine & I talked about, WordPress 3.0 is a very easy (and fast) update for people who are already using [...]

Tools every blogger needs: Gearing up for WordCamp Victoria

This weekend one of my old stomping grounds, Victoria, is hosting its first WordCamp—WordCamp Victoria—I had waxed and waned about trying to go. Between finishing book 1—Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro—and starting book 2, I’ve been a little busy. Still, you know, the call of a WordCamp [...]

My WordCamp Whistler Talk: How to build a website with WordPress, for normal people

Going to do this post in segments…first my slides: How to use to build a website using WordPress: For normal people View more presentations or upload your own. (tags: wordpress wordcamp) This is the “magic” code that fixes the problem with having a pre-set “Home” button: <?phpwp_list_pages(‘exclude=2,10&title_li=&depth=1′); ?> What this does is block the pages [...]

Getting ready for WordCamp Whistler: What are your favourite themes and plugins?

Next week is WordCamp Whistler and in addition to exercising my shoulder do I can take pictures, I’m also prepping to give a short talk on using WP to build “regular” websites. When Duane and Rebecca opened the speaker submission form, I zapped in with one of my favourite topics: using WP to build a [...]

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