WordCamp Toronto 2013: A Peek into the World of WordPress Plugin Development

WordCamp Toronto 2013: A Peek into the World of WordPress Plugin Development

I’m excited to be presenting at WordCamp Toronto 2013 on October 5/6.  This will be my 5th talk in Toronto and my 9th WordCamp presentation since my first in Toronto 2 years ago. My talk will be an introduction to WordPress plugins: A Peek into the World of WordPress Plugin Development Curious about what’s inside…

WordCamp Toronto Developers 2012: Simple WordPress development sites and site migration.

WordCamp Toronto Developers 2012: Simple WordPress development sites and site migration.

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/

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 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…