WordCamp Toronto 2012: Backups and Intro to plugins

WordCamp Toronto 2012: Backups and Intro to plugins

I’m excited to be speaking again at WordCamp Toronto 2012 in September. I’ll be giving 2 presentations: A talk about backups for your WordPress site: http://2012.toronto.wordcamp.org/session/you-have-a-backup-dont-you/ An introduction to WordPress plugin development: http://2012.toronto.wordcamp.org/session/intro-to-wordpress-plugin-development/ If you have not been to a WordCamp, WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences focusing on everything related to WordPress. Each WordCamp is a…

WordCamp Montreal 2012: Getting WordPress to speak your language.

WordCamp Montreal 2012: Getting WordPress to speak your language.

Woot! Just found out I’ll be speaking at WordCamp Montreal in August. My talk: Getting WordPress to speak your language. An in-depth look at creating WordPress sites in a language other than English, and/or with multiple languages. We will: set up a WordPress site that is not English, see what is needed in themes and…

Montreal “Hello World” WordPress Meetup

I recently attended the Montreal WordPress Meetup “Hello World!” Event to see what other people have been using for creating Multilingual WordPress sites, as my primary multilingual plugin, qTranslate seems to be nearing end of life.  It’s been problematic enough that I’ve been looking at switching to WMPL and have installed it on this site as…

WordCamp Ottawa 2013: Introduction to WordPress.

WordCamp Ottawa 2013: Introduction to WordPress.

In addition to organizing, I’m going to be speaking at WordCamp Ottawa, twice! I’ll be presenting the introduction to WordPress pre-camp session on Thursday before the main day of WordCamp as well as presenting a talk on multilingual sites in WordPress on Saturday. Introduction to WordPress This session is an introduction to WordPress intended to…

WordCamp Toronto 2011: Don’t just paste this code in your functions.php

WordCamp Toronto 2011: Don’t just paste this code in your functions.php

On November 5th, 2011 I gave my first WordCamp presentation at WordCamp Toronto. While I have presented many times in the past to large groups, about 575 people was one of the largest, I had not spoken in front of more than 10-20 people for at least 6 years, so I was a bit nervous…

The Ottawa WordPress Group

On September 21st, 2011 we held the kick-off meeting for the new Ottawa WordPress Group.  R-Cubed is one of the group sponsors and Rick Radko is a co-organizer. We hope to create a user group that will support leaning and promote WordPress in Ottawa.  The group is to address the needs of all levels of…