Confused by Custom Post Types & Taxonomies? Yeah, me too.

Lorelle VanFossen posted (a while back) a compendium of info on WordPress 3.0 Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies: One of the most exciting new features in WordPress 3.0 is the Custom Post Types, which thrills Theme developers and designers and those using WordPress as a CMS, but confuses a lot of users. Let’s take [...]

Get Ready for WordPress 3: Backup Your Database

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Now that WordPress 3.0 RC3 (third release candidate) is out, it can only mean that WordPress 3.0 is just around the corner. The final version could be any day now, so now is the time to start getting ready. Thinking about doing the update to 3? Awesome. It should be painless for you, but … [...]

Small plugin cull

Just in case you think I install every plugin on the planet here, I don’t. In fact I did a pretty hard cull of plugins tonight. My account has been hitting my allocations on DreamHost pretty hard of late and while I don’t think it’s due to any of my WP installs (I think it [...]

Pre-release Chapter of Using WordPress: Chapter 7-All About Themes

Just in time for WordCamp Vancouver have a chapter of Using WordPress for you to download and read. Chapter 7: All About Themes Chapter 7 covers all the basics of WordPress themes and, yes, it does include WordPress 3. I didn’t get into Custom Post Types or Custom Taxonomies in this chapter because it’s beyond [...]

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 [...]

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