I'm a big fan of the WP Tavern blog, so it was great to see an article come out yesterday on the latest WordPress content we're producing at Treehouse. Check out High Demand For WordPress Education Prompts Treehouse to Launch New Beginner’s Course on WP Tavern. The article has a bit of a funny vibe to … Continue reading Nice Review of Treehouse WordPress Content on WP Tavern
I'm excited to announce the release of our latest Treehouse WordPress course: How to Make Websites with WordPress. We cover all the basics you need to get up and running with WordPress: How to Install WordPress Working with WordPress Themes Customizing WordPress Themes Working with Custom Post Types and Fields Adding Widget Areas Adding Custom … Continue reading Trailer for New Treehouse Course: How to Build Websites with WordPress
Today I had the honor to do a 1hr 45min talk on How to Learn Web Design and Development via WordPress. Here are the slides: https://speakerdeck.com/zgordon/learn-web-design-and-development-via-wordpress-wordcamp-phoenix-2014 And the example site I used is here: wptreehouse.com/treehouse-tours
If you've ever tried to build a WP site locally, you've likely experienced the problem of WordPress not sending out emails from your local development environment. Thanks to the WP Mail SMTP plugin you can now easily get around this by using your email providers SMTP information instead of your local server. WP Beginner published … Continue reading Sending WordPress Emails During Local Development
If you have a site with lots of parent and child pages, you've likely felt something missing UX wise from the default Pages listing in the admin area. The Admin Column View plugin solves this problem by implementing a Mac Finder style column view to help you more easily navigate to your content. Check it … Continue reading Cool WordPress Plugin for Viewing Nested Pages in the Admin Area
Shout out to Tom for posting this article on "Understanding Events, Actions, and Filters" as part of the WPTuts "Using WordPress for Web Application Development" series. If you're new to WordPress plugin development, you definitely want to review this article.
Swift templates is a way to use a simple templating language to create custom templates from within the admin area, and even the Publish page. I suppose for the right client and use case it would be helpful, but for the type of work I do creating simple sites for clients, it doesn't really apply. … Continue reading I’m Curious to See How Swift Templates Work in the Real World with Clients
Hat's off to Brian for a well written little article here on Barley, an front-end/inline content editor plugin for WordPress. He mentions the currently under work WP inline editing project and reaches out to the folks at Barley to better understand their intentions for the plugin longer term. Barley has a history an existance outside … Continue reading Interested to See How Barley Inline Editing Takes Off for WordPress
I'm excited to kick the 2014 year off with a talk at WordCamp Phoenix (Jan 17-19) on learning web design via WordPress. I'll be talking about how to get into learning HTML, CSS, PHP other related skills simply by expanding going deeper into WordPress customization. The talk is aimed towards anyone wanting to learn more … Continue reading I’m Speaking at WordCamp Phoenix 2014!!!
Rock on to the folks at WP Tuts for staying up to date on publishing WordPress theme tutorials! Here is the latest in their series: Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Preparing the Markup Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Creating Template Files Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Uploading Your Theme … Continue reading Learn WP from Static HTML to Custom Theme
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