You will get to know how to build widgets, extend the widget class and all the basic parts needed to build your own widget.
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 the Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business. I am the author of several plugins, including ArtistDataPress and BuddyPress Profile Widgets.
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.
Mike Toppa has been coding for the web since the days of HTML 1.0, when web pages were first painted on cave walls with bison blood. Heās a developer for the civic engagement startup ElectNext, and previously was the Director of Development for WebDevStudios. Heās also worked at U Penn, Stanford, Georgetown, Ask Jeeves, and E-Trade, and is experienced working in Ruby on Rails, Java, Python, Perl, and of course, PHP and WordPress. You can find him online at toppa.com and @mtoppa.
This talk discusses how best to debug your project using tools like Debug Bar and Chrome Developer Tools.
Hey! My name is Nathaniel and Iām a Front End Developer from Nashville, TN. Iāve been developing with WordPress for the last three years. With a degree in Media and Communication Studies, and a background in Video, Print, and Web, I have a pretty diverse perspective and hope to use that to better educate others in both their professional and personal lives. Whats the point in working if you donāt live, too?
You can find him online at Fight the Current
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.
A web designer who loves to learn about the latest trends in web design, wordpress, and coding languages. I play the violin, enjoy baking and eating chocolate cakes, and running long distance. Iām currently working at Ahso designs as a junior developer and attending the Art Institute of TN, majoring in web design and Interactive media.
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 can you find clients?
~ Kenneth White
You may love it or hate it but SEO – Search Engine Optimization – isnāt 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 site traffic.
Join us at Belmont University on Monday, Nov. 18, for a joint meetup with the SEO and Internet Marketing MeetUp, led by Ross Jones of 2 the TopĀ Web Design and Promotion.Ā Ross is a frequent speaker around Nashville, teaches at Belmont and is active in the WordPress community.
Heāll cover basic SEO and how simple steps can make a big difference. Among them: naming pages so Google sees something other than āaboutā on an About Us page and using only 1 main headline on each page so search engines understand the content of the page. Using multiple H1s to decorate a page is a really bad idea. So is leaving your default blog post setting to āuncategorized.ā
This MeetUp will touch on the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin. The goal, however, is an overall understanding of basic SEO principles and how to leverage them in putting a site together.
Weāve had some great WordPress Nashville MeetUps this fall, so letās keep the momentum going. Join us at Belmont for SEO Basics.
RSVP Here: SEO Basics for WordPress
MeetUp Details
Monday, November 18, 2013
7:00 PM
Belmont University, McWhorter Hall Rm 114
1499 Wedgewood Ave, Nashville, TN
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Enter Belmont’s Inman Center/ North Garage (the building next to Massey on Wedgewood). Follow signs to Visitor Parking on level P1. Take McWhorter Elevators from P1 to Floor 1. Turn right out of the elevators. McWhorter 114 will be about 100 ft.
In September, we met again at the home of Ah So, Sprcllr, and Nashville Geek to deep dive into issues that WordPress developers all need to know about. Ā This month’s topic was managed vs unmanaged hosting. Ā Thanks to Dale Liska for his presentation.
Check out the video below of his presentation of managed vs unmanaged WordPress hosting.
Here are the slides from his presentation:
Thanks to WorkIT for your sponsorship.
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 it and build each theme from scratch, tailored to client needs.
So where does a WordPress user start?
The WPNashville October MeetUp, at 7pm on Oct. 21, will present a panel discussion on themes and theming. Panelists will cover two major theme foundries, Studio Press and WooThemes, as well as one of the largest marketplaces on the web, ThemeForest.
Panelists will spend 30 minutes touching on the three topics below followed by 20 minutes of Q&A.
Please join us.
RSVP through WPNashville MeetUp
Entrepreneurs have ideas, but how do they share those ideas with the world?
WordPress makes it easy for them to translate ideas into a web presence without knowledge of coding.
In partnership with the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, the WordPress Nashville MeetUp offers “How to Successfully Use WordPress to Launch an Idea” at 7 p.m. on September 16. Presenter John Housholder will demonstrate how to set up a WordPress blog and get started.
He will also share resources within the Greater Nashville WordPress community that entrepreneurs and their teams can tap into. WordPress gives entrepreneurs a solid digital home base for any idea – products, services, apps among them. Sharing ideas is easy with WordPress, and the platform has the flexibility and power to grow as businesses take shape.
This event is the first in a series of targeted WP Nashville MeetUps that aims to introduce WordPress to new audiences. The MeetUp, which will be at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, is free but tickets are required. Registration is through Event Brite.
Get ready to meet a ton of new people and learn how to publish your ideas on the web for the world to see. Make sure you bring business cards and remember, no knowledge of code required!
7-7:10 – general talk on WordPress community in Nashville
7:10-7:40 – main talk on WordPress for Entrepreneurs
7:40-7:50 – question
7:50-8:20 – networking
Nashville Entrepreneur Center
41 Peabody St. (in the Rolling Mill Hill complex)
Nashville, TN 37210
As part of my WordPress as an Entrepreneur talk at Nashville’s Entrepreneur Center, I wanted to share some of the great projects people in the Nashville community have done on WordPress for entrepreneurs as of late.
In the comments below, please include your name and business/entrepreneur and a link to the page you would like me to showcase.
Submissions are due by Friday September 13th.
Looking forward to seeing everyone on Monday, September 16th at Nashville’s Entrepreneur Center !
I’ll start….
– John