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Heading into the Home Stretch with Using WordPress–Watching for WordPress 3.0
I hit a big milestone tonight with Using WordPress, reaching the 75% mark finishing writing chapter 13 tonight. I still have to format them in the Pearson Word style, take some screenshots, and record...
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Sneak Listen at Part of Using WordPress: Are Premium WordPress Themes Worth It?
As you might have gathered, even though I haven’t been posting much lately, I finished the first draft of Using WordPress on schedule in mid March. Finishing another book, and this time on time, is a...
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Pre-release Chapter of Using WordPress: Chapter 7-All About Themes
Just in time for WordCamp Vancouver have a chapter of Using WordPress for you to download and read. Chapter 7: All About Themes Chapter 7 covers all the basics of WordPress themes and, yes, it does...
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WordPress App for iOS devices updated. Now we can paste on the iPad!
Automattic updated the native WP client for iPhones, etc…and wow you can paste on the iPad now! Cut-and-paste now behaves as expected on the iPad. [#438] [From WordPress for iOS › WordPress Version 2.5...
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WordPress 3 & Parent-Child Themes from WordCamp Vancouver
If you missed WordCamp Vancouver and wanted more than the slides I posted previously, now you can watch Catherine Winters & I talk about WordPress 3.0 just a short while before it came out: As...
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I’m going to try out VaultPress, but I might not spring for it
A while back, Matt and the Automattic gang (maybe a pose now) let the world know that they were working on a new service to back up WP.org-based blogs—Announcing VaultPress | VaultPress Blog. It was...
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Next big project: WordPress Essentials video tutorials
Just in case you think I’m going to slack off after Teach Yourself Foursquare is done, as soon as that project is finished I’ll be starting my next project: WordPress Essentials. This is a video-based...
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WordPress, Thesis, GPL, and premium themes
Almost two years ago I started doing a lot more with WordPress than I had before and I found that buying premium themes would save me time and effort. In short order I bought developers licenses for...
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Teaching Sans Laptop for the First Time
I’ve been teaching classes through UBC Continuing Ed for a good couple years now. I teach building websites with WordPress (for normal people, e.g. no coding) and Podcasting 101. Both are fun to teach...
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Teaching WordPress and not installing WordPress
In addition to breaking new ground for myself by presenting my class slides from my iPad, in my Building Websites with WordPress class on Saturday (there might still be space available) I’m also trying...
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Getting fired up about WP 3.4
A new version of WP is on the way! WordPress 3.4 has hit the critical Release Candidate stage which means that the somewhat faint of heart can try it with the help of the WordPress Beta Tester plugin...
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