Feb 03
Using WordPress in Alternate Configurations – My WordCamp Whistler 09 Presentation
Finally, after a full week of catching up, here is the video tutorial version of my presentation at WordCamp Whistler 09 for those who were there and those who couldn’t come. The video is also available on WordPress.tv if you’d rather watch it there. I recorded the video over the weekend and it contains the [...]
Jan 24
Code snippets from my WordCamp presentation
Here are some code snippets from my WordCamp Whistler presentation. This article will be expanded in the coming week but in the meantime here they are for anyone wanting to play around with them:
Custom Page Templates in 5 lines of code
<?php
/*
Template Name: Whatever
*/
?>
Custom Fields in one line of code
<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘$key’, true); ?>
Custom Field [...]
Jan 12
Speaking about WordPress as CMS at WordCamp Whistler – What do you want me to cover?
I am speaking at WordCamp Whistler on January 24th on the topic of using WordPress to create, design and manage “non-blog” web sites – in other words using WordPress as a CMS. If you follow this blog you know that I’ve been working with this concept for a long time and that in almost every [...]
Dec 19
WordCamp Whistler Pitch: Moving Beyond the Blog – Building Web Sites with WordPress as the CMS
WordCamp is coming to the wonderful winter wonderland of Whistler on January 24th, 2009 and I’d like to throw my name in the hat of presenters and share some of what I’ve learned working with everyone’s favourite blogging platform WordPress as a full fledged CMS. Now I’m not part of what is considered the Vancouver [...]
