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WordCamp Los Angeles – Get Your Tickets!

WordCamp Los Angeles is taking place September 21st & 22nd – two days of awesome WordPress fun, learning and connecting. If you haven’t bought your ticket yet, I recommend you do so ASAP since they are likely to sell out. As I write this there are only 60 remaining. You also want to make sure you can snag a T-shirt in the correct size. That’s right, in addition to 2 days of presentations and workshops, your $40 ticket also includes lunch and free T-shirt! Can’t say fairer than that. This is the cheapest, most value-packed tech conference around. If you are a WordPress user anywhere near the LA area, attendance is a must! You’ll have tons of fun, learn more than your head can hold, and will connect with other users, developers, designers etc. WordCamps really embody the spirit of the community – everyone freely shares ideas and you can ask all your burning WordPress questions.

WORDCAMP REGISTRATION

Speakers have just been announced and there are going to be some great sessions.

WordPress 101 Video – Understanding Core WordPress Concepts

WordPress Beginners, WordPress Tutorials - Basic

I recently had the honor of presenting at WordCamp Orange County 2013. I was asked to give a “WordPress 101” talk which may sound simple, but is deceptively so! It’s actually quite a challenge. I teach WordPress every day so the material is second nature, but in a presentation you only have about 30 minutes, so it’s impossible to convey all the information that WordPress 101 could potentially encompass.

My approach was not to go the mechanical nuts n’ bolts route of “this is how you install WordPress, here’s how you make a post” etc. Instead I focused on the understanding of basic concepts in WordPress which are absolutely necessary – differences between posts and pages, understanding what menus are and how they work, how themes work, the difference between a plugin and a widget etc. These are all areas that I see beginners grapple with understanding at first. If you don’t get these core concepts down, you’ll have problems with WordPress.

Orange County WordCamp 2012 – All The Knowledge

WordPress

As has become habitual, I am collecting all the links to slides and talks from this weekend’s Orange County WordCamp. It was of course, another awesome day of learning, community and WordPress nerdiness. There were many great talks so keep your eye on WordPress.tv for the videos to go up.

WordPress I: Introduction to WordPress
Skill Level: Beginner
Se Reed
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Getting Started with Contribution!
Skill Level: Advanced
Mike Schroder
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Fun With Gravity Forms – Slides from Orange County Wordcamp 2012

WordPress, WordPress Plugins

Here are the slides from my presentation at this weekend’s Orange County Wordcamp. I presented on “Fun With Gravity Forms”. Gravity Forms is a premium WordPress plugin that is worth paying for! Since much of my presentation was a live demonstration, the slides don’t cover everything, but there are some good resources included, and links to great examples of a diverse use of Gravity Forms.

All Slides From WordCamp Seattle 2012

WordPress

I discussed my experience at Seattle WordCamp 2012 in a previous post. This one is simply to serve as a collecting point for all the presentation slides from the event, or as many as I could find in any case. Feast below, there’s some great info to be had….

END USER/ BLOGGER TRACK

Using WordPress as Your Company’s Website
Kelli Wise
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SEO for Bloggers
Justin Briggs
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WYSI-WHA!?! Taming the WordPress Editor
Mark Root-Wiley & Christine Winckler
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How to Promote Your Blog Without Losing Your Soul
Laura Kimball
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WordPress – Going Beyond The Basics – Slides from Wordcamp Seattle 2012

WordPress, WordPress Beginners

This weekend I had the honor and pleasure of speaking at Seattle’s WordCamp. I have never attended a WordCamp outside of Southern California before and was pleased to experience the same feeling of community there that I have at other events.

My topic was “WordPress – Going Beyond The Basics: An Adventure Behind the Scenes of your WordPress Site!”

The goal was to introduce some key files, concepts and best practices for WordPress users who are not developers but are ready to take their knowledge of WordPress further than the dashboard. The presentation included a quick live demo of how to make a CSS tweak using Chrome Developer Tools, by way of a child theme.