Stop American Censorship

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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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Speaking at WordCamp Atlanta on WordPress Theme Basics

WordCamp Atlanta 2012

I’m excited to be presenting at WordCamp Atlanta on February 4th, 2012!  Atlanta holds a special place for me because I was supposed to be living there by now – -but life intervened and I ended up staying here in Wisconsin.  During my ‘moving to Atlanta’ moving phase, however; quite a few members of the WordPress community in Atlanta displayed so much of that famous southern hospitality and reached out to see if they could …

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Yoga talked me off the ledge

I had a little helper with me as I created my Yoga room

My 2011 has been like no other year. Good, in most ways – – but also one of my worst years, at the same time. It started out pretty decent and strong with the launch of my new theme shop at Allure Themes and the release of a whopping three books in April, June and October. As if that weren’t enough to keep me busy, the work I do at E.Webscapes and Convertiv kept me …

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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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