Chris ScottAugust 12th, 2010
As mentioned a few weeks ago, two of Voce’s Platforms Services team, Sean O’Shaugnessy and I put on a presentation on WordPress caching at WordCamp Boulder, a talk that’s now online via WordPress.tv if you weren’t able to attend but want to hear what we had to say. Our talk on improving WordPress performance through [...]
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Jeremy HarringtonAugust 9th, 2010
I had the great fortune of attending An Event Apart 2010 in Minneapolis a few days ago. This was my second AEA conference and it was an overwhelming success. If you’ve never had the opportunity to attend and consider yourself a ‘web person’ you should find an opportunity to see this ‘all-star’ show. SPEAKER LINEUP [...]
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Nik WiletsAugust 6th, 2010
I made the switch to WordPress from Drupal seven months ago and I don’t ever think I’ll go back. WordPress’ speed of development, template tags and elegant admin user interface would be to hard to give up. But as I have worked more with WordPress I’ve found there are some features from Drupal that would [...]
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Nick GernertJuly 1st, 2010
WordCamp Boulder is coming upon July 10. We’ll be there not only attending the sessions, but Chris and Sean will be giving a talk on caching with WordPress. Here’s a brief description of the session: As a WordPress site owner you want your WordPress site to be fast, use less server resources, and be able [...]
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Nick GernertJune 23rd, 2010
So, it’s no secret that the Sony PlayStation Blog is one of our banner WordPress projects here. They’re great partners and have embraced the platform allowing us to do things like contribute plugins developed for the site back to the WordPress developer community. I’m excited to give a few details about one of our newest [...]
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Jeremy HarringtonJune 7th, 2010
If you weren’t able to attend WordCamp Chicago this past weekend you can still view my presentation on what check for before launching or revamping a website. These simple checklists will help you ensure that what you’re doing is in line with what your users – whether they’re customers, readers, conversation participants or anything else [...]
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Jeremy HarringtonJune 1st, 2010
Here at Voce I fill the role of user experience design lead, so my presentation at WordCamp Chicago, titled UX Flight Check will be along those lines. Here’s a preview of what you can look forward to: Whether you’re developing your own custom site, customizing an existing theme or simply adding a few final touches [...]
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Jeremy HarringtonMarch 19th, 2010
The math is simple: WordPress Fans & Developers + Beer = Good Times. As promised the first WordPress Happy Hour event was held in Des Moines, Iowa on March 9th and was a big hit. We were able to quench the thirsts of around 40 guests over a three hour span. We gave away two [...]
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Nick GernertJanuary 13th, 2010
An interesting debate has gained some momentum this week regarding WordPress Core (also known as canonical) Plugins, specifically their impact on the current plugin library for WordPress. To help with context, Jane Wells posted some information about Core (originally known as Canonical) plugins on the WordPress Development Blog. Jane says (interestingly, nothing about Sergio): Plugins [...]
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Nick GernertJanuary 6th, 2010
No sooner does he catch his breath from presenting at WordCamp Orlando (recaps and commentary on that coming shortly) than Voce’s Chris Scott announces he’ll be speaking at WordCamp Atlanta: I’ll cover some common examples seen in plugins, themes, and tutorials that are either the “wrong” way to do it, not the “WordPress way”, or [...]
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