WordPress
WordPress is free, open-source software that makes it easy to manage blogs and other web sites. Users can login and edit the content of the site just like they would edit their email, without having to worry about writing code and updating navigational pages. It began as a tool for building weblogs (personal sites with diary-like updates), but it has grown over the years to work well with other kinds of sites. I use WordPress to manage this entire site, and use it to build web sites for clients that they can update themselves.
Presentations
Advanced WordPress Features & Functionality
(7) Forthcoming
Presentation: Advanced WordPress Features & Functionality
Extending & Scaling WordPress
(6) I spoke at the Lone Star PHP Conference in Dallas on June 11, 2011, presenting a case study from some of the work WordPress work I have done for Imaginuity. I added a few slides to the presentation and shared it again at the Dallas PHP User Group on August 9, 2011.
Presentation: Extending & Scaling WordPress
WordPress in the Workplace
(5) I moderated a panel in November 2010, the monthly meeting of the D/FW WordPress Developer and Technical User Group. Panelists discuss their experience using WordPress in their day jobs: essential techniques, upgrade practices, WordPress 3.0 features, plugin recommendations, hosting, scaling, and more. The event was recorded, and you can watch the videos online.
Panel: WordPress in the Workplace
Pages in WordPress
(4) I spoke at the D/FW WordPress Meetup in June 2010, giving a presentation on some of the techniques for working with pages that I used on my EMAC 3361 course web site.
Presentation: Pages in WordPress
Editable Snippets in ProjectManager
(3) I spoke at the D/FW WordPress Technical Meetup in October 2007, giving a presentation on how to use the WordPress plugin ProjectManager and custom template files to provide clients or other non-technical users a way to edit featured snippets.
Presentation: Editable Snippets in ProjectManager
Custom Fields in WordPress
(2) I spoke at WordCamp Dallas in June 2009, giving a presentation on putting WordPress custom fields to work on a blog. This page contains a video of that presentation, along with links to download the theme files I modified during the presentation and to other resources I mentioned.
Presentation: Custom Fields in WordPress
Multiple Authors in WordPress
(1) I spoke at the D/FW WordPress Meetup in April 2009, giving a presentation on the techniques, page templates, and plugins I uses to power the multiple-author functionality on Journey to the Sea. Hopefully, this will be the first of many more opportunities to share with others from my experience working with WordPress.