WordPress will be getting a new theme with version 3.5, the long awaited TwentyTwelve (which was supposed to ship in 3.4, but was not quite ready). Since it was almost ready for 3.4, it has been available for several months now if you knew where to find it. I’ve already built client site using it…
I’m headed back to Toronto in November as a presenter at the first ever Toronto WordCamp Developers! I’ll be talking about 2 somewhat related topics that come up quite often at the Ottawa WordPress Meetup: setting up development sites and migrating sites that have been developed into place on the production server. http://2012.torontodev.wordcamp.org/session/simple-wordpress-development-sites-and-site-migration/
Today I released my first plugin, a widget to display a Meetup badge and a link to a Meetup Group. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/r3df-meetup-widget/ I built the first version of it earlier in the year to use on the Ottawa WordPress Group website to link to the Meetup website. In preparation for my one of my WordCamp Toronto…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I’m attending WordCamp Montreal as the first WordCamp I have gone to, and R3DF is a sponsor! There are lots of really interesting looking talks including a whole dev track! WordCamp Montreal 2011 Schedule I’m also looking forward to meeting a lot of people in the WordPress community that I know, but have never met. …
Recently I needed to put a sub-domain on different host than the main domain. (the main domain was IIS and we needed an apache server) You may not be able to do this with all hosting companies, so check with them first. In this case, the servers were with 2 different hosting companies. With…
Where to put your blog? How about blog.domain.com? Putting your blog on a sub-domain makes it easy to keep all the files for your blog organized and separate from your other website files, you know, the CMS, the forum and the wiki you have jumbled on the site too. The sub-domain keeps all the links…