WordPress Websites, Consulting & Training
If you’re a WordPress user in Austin, Texas, you should be part of WordPress Austin. We’re an informal group that gets together twice a month to talk about WordPress websites, share our successes and concerns, and learn a lot from each other. We announce our meetings through the WordPress Austin meetup group, so you’re encouraged [...]
In September I taught WordPress classes as part of the training for AIR Austin. In conjunction with that training, I created a website called Using WordPress specifically to help walk people through the basics of this great content management/website building platform. Even though WordPress is relatively simple to use, I recognized that there was a [...]
Today’s a big day. We’re in the middle of Austin’s very own WordCamp, an all-day WordPress-athon. So far we’ve had three great presentations from Bill Erickson, John Chandler and Nick Batik, with more to come from Jared Atchison, Devin Price, Stephanie Leary and Jason Cohen. We’re hearing about everything from what to do BEFORE you [...]
In conjunction with AIR Austin, a competition to build accessible websites sponsored by Knowbility, I have created a new website to help people learn WordPress.
The site, Using WordPress, is not meant as a step-by-step tutorial, but as a brief overview of WordPress, with the goal of demystifying some of the elements of the platform. There is also a brief introduction to the architecture of WordPress with discussion on how to develop custom themes.
At the September 7th WordPress Austin meeting, we discussed everyone’s favorite plugins. This is my rundown of many of the plugins discussed, with links to the wordpress.org site to read more about them. All should be available for direct download and installation through your WordPress dashboard or as separate downloads. Collision Testimonials Allow visitors to [...]
Every time I meet with new users of WordPress, they ask about plugins. While the choice of plugins can be very personal and site-specific, there are a few that most WordPress sites should include. Search Engine Optimization & Metrics If you have a website, you want to make sure people are finding it. While effective [...]
Over the next month I’ll be participating in a couple exciting activities in Austin. First is Blogathon, which will be Saturday, August 28th from 9am-9pm. It looks like a great day of blogging and hanging out. I’ll be volunteering in the tech room, for people who want to set up a WordPress blog or need [...]
One of the reasons I love WordPress is its combined simplicity and depth. When using WordPress, it’s relatively easy to learn how to use and get a professional website up and running. Yet at the same time, its structure also allows experienced users to build onto it, developing complex sites with high functionality. Recently on [...]
If you’ve downloaded the new 3.0 Thelonius version of WordPress, you’re undoubtedly familiar with the images included with the new default Twenty Ten theme. Did you know where they came from? Did you, like me, wonder why they picked those images to feature? Wonder no more. I just stumbled across the blog post Matt Mullenweg [...]
What is WordPress? WordPress first came on the scene in 2003, when it was released by Matt Mullenweg. According to Wikipedia, it’s “an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plugin architecture and a templating system.” That’s a good place to [...]
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