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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Appearance on iThemes.tv
My good friends at iThemes.tv invited me to appear on their internet TV show to talk about WordPress, my books, my work in design and WordPress development and involvement with WordCamps. It was great fun – special thanks to Matt Danner for doing such a fun interview!
A bit of a redesign
I have finally re-designed my site after 2 long years of my old black and pink one! Not that I didn’t like the old design . . . but it was time for something new, springy, fun, light – before summertime ran out! This time around, I tried something different and used a theme framework called Builder from my good friends over at iThemes. I’ve been wanting to dig into frameworks for some time now, and figured the best place to do that is on my own personal site where I can dig in, get my hands dirty and see what all the fuss was about! Welcome to my redesign – - don’t forget to notice the pink!
Builder Bootcamp, PluginBuddy and my iThemes experience
I had a really great time at iThemes Builder Bootcamp weekend in Oklahoma and want to send out a big thanks to Cory Miller, Jen Miller and the rest of the iThemes team for inviting me down to their event. There were roughly 70-75 people in attendence, all of them passionate WordPress users, and all of them part of the iThemes community. Many were from the Oklahoma City general area – but there were a handful that flew in hundreds of miles away to spend the weekend with the iThemes crew to learn more about WordPress and how they can use the iThemes offerings to build their web sites with WordPress. Great stuff!
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