I wasn't able to WordCamp Orange County in 2013, but if I had, I would have enjoyed checking out this cool talk in person. The presenter, Alex Vasquez, does a good job explaining the differences and similarities between frameworks, parent/child themes, and starter themes. His slide deck has some awesome illustrations.
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If You Haven’t Seen Brad Williams Speak in Person on WordPress Security, Watch This!
Brad Williams has long been considered a leading person on WordPress security. I've had the opportunity to see him speak a number of times and if you haven't, I would really suggest you check out one his latest talks from WordCamp Phoenix. I will be doing an upcoming course on WordPress security for Treehouse and … Continue reading If You Haven’t Seen Brad Williams Speak in Person on WordPress Security, Watch This!
Interesting Video Comparing WordPress to Other Education Platforms
As someone who worked for Blackboard for a year and has used a number of different LMS at the middle, high school, college, and University level, I liked watching this video from Maria Erb on the topic. In my opinion, using WordPress and Sensei from WooThemes, you can create a a pretty great LMS replacement.
Be Warned of the Sins of WP Theme Development
Gotta love the catchy title on this post from George Stephanis's talk from WordCamp Philly: "The Seven Deadly Theming Sins" http://s0.videopress.com/player.swf?v=1.03 You know it's good cause George works for Automatic 😉
If You Want to Charge More for Your WordPress Work, Check This Out
Troy Dean did a great presentation at WordCamp Melbourne (which I was supposed to be at but missed 
) on how to charge more for your work. I think I may have even posted about this before, but I came across it again and still feel it's worth checking out.
Thoughts on the UX of the P2 WordPress Theme
I remember when P2 came out as the internal blog theme that the WordPress.com team used. Now we have a nice WordPress talk the UX of the theme from Michele Mizejewski. http://s0.videopress.com/player.swf?v=1.03
Using Strong Pedagogy to Build a Teacher WordPress Site
Very cool insights here from educator and WordPresser John Caserta.
Oh Yeah, I’m Excited About MasterPress
Custom post types and fields have been out for a while and the plugin market for them has gotten to the point where there are two strong options: Custom Post Types UI and Advanced Custom Fields. Â Why no one has made an awesome plugin that combines these has baffled me. Â Thanks MasterPress for changing this. … Continue reading Oh Yeah, I’m Excited About MasterPress
Great Video on How Automattic Approaches Theme Development
Check out this great video from Philip Arthur Moore http://s0.videopress.com/player.swf?v=1.03 In the video he talks about a few major approaches to creating WordPress themes: Parent and child themes Theme frameworks Starter themes From scratch You can also find a nice write up he did of the content over on the Codepoet blog. He also has … Continue reading Great Video on How Automattic Approaches Theme Development
How to Build a WordPress Plugin WordPress.tv Video
I enjoyed this talk from Eric Mann on building a WordPress plugin
Educator Zac Gordon 