Teaching WordPress and not installing WordPress

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In addition to breaking new ground for myself by presenting my class slides from my iPad, in my Building Websites with WordPress class on Saturday (there might still be space available) I’m also trying something pretty new (for me) in teaching how to use WordPress—I’m going to focus 90% of the class using just WordPress.com. [...]

I’m going to try out VaultPress, but I might not spring for it

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A while back, Matt and the Automattic gang (maybe a pose now) let the world know that they were working on a new service to back up WP.org-based blogs—Announcing VaultPress | VaultPress Blog. It was clear from the get go that this was going to be a premium service and there would be no free [...]

Building Websites with WordPress Class Slides

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During today’s class, several people asked if the slides would be made available online… So here they are: You can download a PDF version or view the slides on iWork.com Beta. One fantastic surprise from today’s class was that WordPress.com now supports WordPress 3.0 menus: While only the new Twenty Ten theme can use the [...]

New Introductory and Advanced WordPress Courses Available from BCIT

By popular demand, I am teaching another round of WordPress courses January 16th and April 10th, 2010. These courses are being offered through BCIT and will be offered as separate morning and afternoon sessions. The morning session will use WordPress.com to build a website/blog. The afternoon session will use WordPress you install yourself to build [...]

WordPress.com and WordPress can co-exist, but maybe with new names

In the WordPress world many of us, especially those like me who teach people how to use it, are often explaining WordPress.com vs WordPress.org to people. The answer, simply, is WP.com is a hosted service where you can have a WordPress-powered blog/site and WP.org is where you download the WordPress software to install on your [...]

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