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Jumping into WordPress Plugin Development presentation

By Dougal | Published: September 26, 2009

Despite an extreme lack of sleep, I managed to make it through my WordCamp Birmingham presentation this morning on Jumping into WordPress Plugin Programming. I didn’t feel as prepared as I wanted to be, but several people gave me some kind comments, so I guess it must have gone okay. Here is the slideshow I used, which I’ve uploaded to SlideShare (where you can also find my presentation from last year).

Jumping Into WordPress Plugin Programming

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Obviously, with the slideshow, you don’t get the extra patter and commentary (did anybody record audio?), but the essential pieces are there. [...]

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WordPress Themes Tutorial

By Dougal | Published: July 1, 2009

If you aren’t already following along, I highly recommend checking out the How To Create A WordPress Theme tutorial series by Ian Stewart (ThemeShaper.com). This 12-part series (8 complete at the time of this writing) aims to take you from nothing to a fully functional, semantically rich, flexible WordPress theme in digestible chunks. [...]

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WordPress for Business Bloggers sample chapter

By Dougal | Published: November 24, 2008

Download:	documents/WordPressBookChapter5.pdf
Version:	0.1
Updated:	November 24, 2008
Size:	1.98 MB

As a followup to my review of the book WordPress for Business Bloggers, I am able to make a sample chapter available to my readers. [...]

Posted in WordPress | Also tagged backup, Blogging, book, chapter, content, content is king, packt, paulthewlis, phpmyadmin, sample, WordPress, wordpress for business bloggers | 10 Comments

WordPress Wednesday Kick Off

By Dougal | Published: October 15, 2008

This is the first installment of “WordPress Wednesday”, which I mentioned in my previous post about making changes to my site. This first one is going to be a little long, and I’ve been editing the draft off-and-on for over a week. [...]