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Quayle For Congress on WordPress

Ben Quayle for Congress Web Site

Thrilled to see a site that I worked pretty hard on finally launched and live:  Quayle For Congress.    Ben Quayle is the son of former Vice-President, Dan Quayle; and he is running for Congress in the state of Arizona.  I completed this project in partnership with Red Yawp Digital – - they provided the PSDs and I developed the site using WordPress with custom post types and jQuery work.

WordPress Developers Course: Multisite Workshop

WordPress Developers Course Multisite Workshop

This week I’m leaving on a jet plane.  Destination: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  On Thursday, January 12th, I am kicking off a 4-day WordPress Developers Course for WebDesign.com at TheDIV in OKC by providing a FULL day workshop on WordPress Multisite.  This workshop is scheduled for 6 full hours of Multisite goodness  - – really, who knew that I could talk for 6 straight hours??  But! There is a lot of information to cover when it …

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The Economy of WordPress (speaking of that … need work in 2012??)

First, big thanks to WordPress for keeping me busy and in business.  I recently completed a video interview (publish date T.B.A.) where I was asked about the WordPress economy and the commercial ecosystem that has evolved around the WordPress platform.  One of the points I made in my answer was that if it were not for the insane popularity and success of the WordPress software, as well as its open source nature and the GPL, …

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Cheapflights.com on WordPress

Excited to see the sites I recently developed for the London-based Cheapflights (US) and Cheapflights (UK) finally up and live, running WordPress Multisite with custom post types (see  here), custom taxonomies and more custom goodies of the sort.  I’ll need to do a write up on this one, eventually .  I developed this site in partnership with my friends at Convertiv – been doing lots of dev. work for them lately … good peeps!

WordPress For Dummies 4th Edition with BONUS Themes

WordPress For Dummies 4th Edition with 5 BONUS Themes

This summer, I finished writing the 4th Edition of my WordPress For Dummies book (John Wiley & Sons) and it covers up to WordPress version 3.2.  This time around my editor, Amy Fandrei and I decided to do something a little different with this release, to offer my readers a bit more value that what they’ve been used to with previous editions of the book.  This time around – aside from the usual value of …

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