WordCamp Ottawa and Canton- After the Install
Here are my slides from this mornings session at WordCamp Ottawa. I had a ton of fun presenting and am looking forward to coming back next year!!
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Creating New User Roles in WordPress with Members Plugin
WordPress offers a number of user roles out of the box that enables you to grant or limit access to the back-end of your site as needed.And while the default user roles will do the job most of the time, there may be occasion where you need what would be seen as a custom user [...]
WordPress Jetpack now includes comments
Released this past Friday, Jetpack (an Automattic plugin) now features Jetpack Comments. This is a very positive step up from the default comment system that comes with WordPress as this allows site visitors who wish to leave a comment using one of their social networks as a registration, eliminating the need to create yet another [...]
Facebook launches WordPress Widget
Your WordPress site just got a little more social with the release of the official Facebook for WordPress widget. The widget was released earlier today and includes the following functionality: Like button Recommendation Bar Comment box Post to an Author’s Facebook Timeline whenever they publish a new Page or Post Mention Friends and Facebook Pages. [...]
WordPress releases JetPack 1.3- now includes Contact forms!
The Jetpack plugin got an important feature addition this week with the release of contact forms into the suite of plugins provided by WordPress.com. While it’a a pretty basic form, it’s a great addition to those who need just that, a pretty basic form. In addition to the standard text fields you can also add [...]
WordPress.tv gets a facelift
One of the best sources for learning WordPress has got to be wordpress.tv. For those who have never visited before,it contains videos of sessions delivered at the various WordCamps around the world. Weren’t able to make it to WordCamp Philly last year? No worries, the sessions are on WordPress.tv. It’s an awesome source of WordPress [...]
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Best of WordPress.tv – Vol. 1
I think it’s high time I launched a new feature here on WPTeach. In addition to being one of the organizers of WordCamp Toronto and WordCamp Developers Toronto, I’ve had the opportunity this year alone to speak at WordCamps in Victoria BC, Atlanta Ga and in a couple of week the inaugural Buffalo NY WordCamp, [...]
WordCamp Columbus – Template Hierarchy Slides
I’m currently in Columbus Ohio at WordCamp Columbus…Just finished my presentation on Template Hierarchy, and the slides from that presentation can be found below. Template hierarchy -WordCamp Columbus View more PowerPoint from Al Davis
Add a pricing table to your WordPress site
We’ve all seen those websites that have that good looking pricing tables on them and wondered how much work it would take to get one like that on our sites. The good news is, it doesn’t take much work at all thanks to the aptly named plugin, WordPress Pricing Table Plugin.If you run a service-based [...]
Install WordPress locally on a Mac
Ever want to be able to play with WordPress and not worry about breaking your live site? Want to have an environment where you can try different things like plugins, themes, or that cool tutorial you found and want to work through? Well, then this is the post for you, (especially if you’re a Mac user). I’m [...]
Better theme file structures coming in WordPress 3.4
One of the new features coming with the release of WordPress 3.4 is an improved file structure for themes. Currently, all files live under the same directory, which can get a bit messy depending on how many templates, pages, etc. your theme has.As an example, currently your theme file structure looks like this /theme folder –page-contact.php –page-about.php [...]
How to recover your WordPress site after a plugin install or upgrade goes wrong
If you’ve been using WordPress for awhile now, chances are you have had to upgrade a plugin . ( If you haven’t, go check your site now, because you probably have some updates to perform). For the most part, things will go smoothly and all will be good in your (WordPress) world, but on occasion, you’ll run into an [...]
Interviews
Matthew Jones from Storefront Themes
One night, while surfing around WordPress.tv, I found a video from a fellow named Matt Jones on e-commerce and WordPress. Matt is the guy behind Storefront Themes, a niche theme store–’niche’ because their themes all work in conjunction with a plugin they have nothing to do with: WP e-Commerce (WPEC). This struck me as both very interesting [...]
Dropping the Digibomb! An interview with Brendan Sera-Shriar
If you have spent anytime talking to people in either the Montreal or Toronto WordPress communities, chances are that at some point you have heard the name Brendan Sera-Shriar, or as he is more likely referred to, Digibomb. Brendan has been instrumental in making the communities in both aforementioned cities into vibrant and living entities. [...]
The Rennicks: WP Multi-site Royalty
Chances are, if you have ever done any work with WordPress Multi-site or even just asked a question about it in the Multi-site forum, you have come across one of the Rennicks, a husband and wife team from New Brunswick, Canada, who are, without question, the go-to authority on Multi-site. If you have ever had [...]
Gallery of inspiration
Gallery of Inspiration – Week 2, 2012
Welcome to the second instalment of our gallery of inspiration, this time featuring fun sites to help lift the post-holiday spirits! Blick.com I really liked the use of a background image to give the site a light, fresh feel. And, really, how can you not like a site that sells Muppets decals? Mah-na Mah-na [...]
Gallery of Inspiration – Week 1, 2012
Every week , we will try to put together a list of WordPress-built websites we like. Here are this week’s sites: GrayStone A fixed photo background and bright colours caught our attention the first time we saw this site. Barleypop A blog about beer would be enough to grab [...]
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WordPress 3.4 is live!
Just went to WordPress.org and saw this…let the updating begin!! This released is named “Green” in honour of guitarist Grant Green.
WordPress 3.4 Release candidate now available
WordPress.org announced the availability of the first release candidate for version 3.4 yesterday on their website. what this means is WordPress is sending out this version for the public to try out and test before offically releasing the ” finished product” that will be version 3.4. They are confident in this release being close to [...]
‘Radically Simplified’ WordPress on the Horizon
Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress and Automattic has let it be known that the team is working on a ‘radically simplified” version of WordPress designed to work on mobile. Speaking at the PaidContent 2012 conference Wednesday, Matt said he had been hard at work on a new interface that would eliminate some of the [...]
WordCamp Toronto…times two!!
We’ve been hinting at it and talking about it quietly for a bit now, but we can finally say it…there will be two WordCamps in Toronto this year!! First up will be the “regular” WordCamp on Sept 29-30, which will be geared to end users. That one will be followed by WordCamp:Developers on Nov 3rd and 4th. That one [...]
WordCamp San Francisco speaker poll
Matt is looking for suggestions for speakers for WordCamp San Francisco this year. Seen anyone that you really liked? Take a minute to fill out this quick form. http://mcm.polldaddy.com/s/best-wordcamp-speakers
