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

by Tris Hussey on January 24, 2009 · 14 comments

in Blogging, Social Media, Web 2.0, WordPress

Going to do this post in segments…first my slides:
How to use to build a website using WordPress: For normal people
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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 with IDs 2 and 10 from being listed. You’ll have to find out the page ID from your Edit Pages section in the admin panels. I mouse over the title and look at the URL in the status bar. Please, [...]

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

by Tris Hussey on January 12, 2009 · 3 comments

in Blogging, Conferences & Speaking, Internet Life, Talks, Web 2.0, WordPress

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 website (yeah with a blog too). Morten had a similar idea, and while a panel was the first option, now each of us will have 30 mins of fame:
In my original pitch I asked for a [...]

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