As the first official “WordPress Crash Test Dummy,” Lorelle has long worshiped the ground WordPress Plugin authors walk over. Join her as she explores the world of WordPress Plugins that are pushing the barriers that many feel limit WordPress, changing site navigation, connecting with the social web, expanding WordPress Theme capabilities, unique solutions to tasks you might not have considered for your website, and even some Plugins which help Plugins do even more.
The extensibility of WordPress is legendary. But buried deep beneath the surface is plugin API that is rarely used and lie mostly undiscovered. Get a primer on how these APIs might be used in plugins and take WordPress to even higher heights by Aaron Brazell, author of the book The WordPress Bible and owner of TechnoSailor.com.
Randy Hoyt demonstrates how to use many of the image-related features and functions in WordPress: * configuring your media settings for your theme * using gallery shortcodes * the mysterious “Post URL” button explained * template files for attachments * adding featured images to your theme * using get_posts to display attachments.
In this session, the creator of MidwestSportsFans.com, Jerod Morris, will talk about his experiences with topics including: blogger vs. mainstream media tension, attracting media references and links, the technical demands of high traffic loads, monetization, hackers, and security. On more than one occasion he has had to call his then boss and now business partner and say, “Are you sitting down?”
The author of Beginning WordPress 3 shows you WordPress’s best-kept secrets, including: * 10 unpublicized feeds * the members-only content feature no one’s using * 2 simple template tags that give you complete control over styles, from whole categories to individual posts * 2 lines of code that add Flickr-style tagging to your photo galleries You’ll also see some of the best overlooked plugins for WordPress, including a few amazing importers and a complete workflow suite.
This session is by Stephanie Leary and if you want to follow along with her via the slides she used in this presentation, you can view them on SlideShare.
In two weeks, I’ll be on a plane heading to Dallas, Texas to take part in OpenCa.mp, the event that brings people from Joomla, WordPress, and Drupal together under one roof. Instead of randomly picking one WordPress specific presentation to record for playback through the WordPress Weekly stream, I’ve decided to you let you pick which one I should record. Just tell me in the comments which presentation or presentations you’d like to hear.
As the first official “WordPress Crash Test Dummy,” Lorelle has long worshiped the ground WordPress Plugin authors walk over. Join her as she explores the world of WordPress Plugins that are pushing the barriers that many feel limit WordPress, changing site navigation, connecting with the social web, expanding WordPress Theme capabilities, unique solutions to tasks you might not have considered for your website, and even some Plugins which help Plugins do even more.