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  • WordCamp 2013: Todd O’Neill: What’s Content Strategy and Why Should I Care?

    WordCamp 2013: Todd O’Neill: What’s Content Strategy and Why Should I Care?

    This talk shows how to make your mistakes on paper or simple desktop and online tools before you commit to a server. Fast, Good, Cheap; Choose two. Do it Good and on the Cheap. It may take a little longer but it will be Right. Todd O’Neill @doingmedia Todd O’Neill has been doing some form…

  • WordCamp 2013: Kelly Henderson: Creating And Managing Content On Your WordPress Site

    WordCamp 2013: Kelly Henderson: Creating And Managing Content On Your WordPress Site

    This talk walks you through organizing content through posts and pages, best practices for making your content reader friendly and a few tips to make life simpler for you on WordPress. Kelly Henderson @KellyPHenderson Kelly is the Director of Client Marketing at Rockhouse Partners, an Etix Company. He helps clients’ with their digital presence to…

  • WordCamp 2013: Chip Bennett: Custom Layouts Without Using Page Templates

    WordCamp 2013: Chip Bennett: Custom Layouts Without Using Page Templates

    This session will show you how to use custom post meta data and the body_class filter to define custom layouts for both static pages and single blog posts. As a bonus, this will show you how to use custom post metaboxes, rather than forcing users to deal with custom fields. Chip Bennett @chip_bennett Chip has…

  • WordCamp 2013: Chris Wilcoxson: How to Build Your First Widget

    WordCamp 2013: Chris Wilcoxson: How to Build Your First Widget

    You will get to know how to build widgets, extend the widget class and all the basic parts needed to build your own widget. Chris Wilcoxson @thewilcoder I’m a Nashville-based WordPress developer who’s worked with WordPress since 2007. I develop at Slushman Designs and work at Belmont University doing web development and computer administration for…

  • WordCamp 2013: Michael Toppa: Clean Code For WordPress Plugins

    WordCamp 2013: Michael Toppa: Clean Code For WordPress Plugins

    What is clean code? This talk provides some answers to this question, and introduces some good habits that will help keep your code clean, such as the use of meaningful names for your variables and functions, and the Single Responsibility Principle. Michael Toppa @mtoppa Mike Toppa has been coding for the web since the days…

  • WordCamp 2013: Nathaniel Schweinberg: Debugging

    WordCamp 2013: Nathaniel Schweinberg: Debugging

    This talk discusses how best to debug your project using tools like Debug Bar and Chrome Developer Tools. Nathaniel Schweinberg @nathanielks Hey! My name is Nathaniel and I’m a Front End Developer from Nashville, TN. I’ve been developing with WordPress for the last three years. With a degree in Media and Communication Studies, and a…

  • WordCamp 2013: Noe Lopez: My First 3 Months Working With WordPress

    WordCamp 2013: Noe Lopez: My First 3 Months Working With WordPress

    This talk is a personal experience working as a developer. Discussion topics include the best practices for blending into a good workflow, how to prepare for your first developer job, and the expectation vs reality about working with a team. Noe Lopez @nlg1013 A web designer who loves to learn about the latest trends in…

  • Dev Breakfast: From Beginner to Pro: How to start a career as a Freelance WordPress Developer

    Dev Breakfast: From Beginner to Pro: How to start a career as a Freelance WordPress Developer

    This month we asked Kenneth White of sprclldr.com to speak on Freelancing. Everything you need to be a successful WordPress business owner (yes, as a freelancer you are a business of one!), from setup to growth. What do you need to be legal? How much should you charge? What should your business model be? How…

  • SEO Basics for WordPress – Joint MeetUp on Nov. 18

    SEO Basics for WordPress – Joint MeetUp on Nov. 18

    You may love it or hate it but SEO – Search Engine Optimization – isn’t going away. Yes, it changes, and panic ensues across the land every time Google updates how it evaluates websites. Yet the foundational basics remain. Knowing them helps any WordPress user, designer, developer, content creator, small business owner or entrepreneur improve…

  • Wading through the forest of WordPress Themes

    Wading through the forest of WordPress Themes

    Click on the WordPress link at themeforest.net and you get nearly 3,400 theme options. There are themes at templatemonster.com and a half-dozen other sites. Often users and developers work with themes from one major source – such as Genesis and Studio Press, Woo Themes, Elegant Themes, ThemeFuse, and Themify. Custom developers will dispense all of…