There is no “I” in freelancer
In 1998 I took a contract to build the backend of a site for a real estate agent using PHP. That evening I went home, The post There is no …
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Podcast E077 – Interview with Topher DeRosia – Kitchensink WordPress Podcast
This week I interview Topher DeRosia Upcoming Events Sad, but no WordCamps the Weekend of August 22! Take some time to learn something new or teach someone something new or …
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Topher DeRosia: Introduction To Plugin Development
Have you ever put code into your functions.php file to change your site? Ever lost that code when you changed themes? Topher will show you how to move that code …
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Topher DeRosia: Crowdsourcing A WordPress Project
Lessons learned and technologies used in the HeroPress Kickstarter project. (note, this kickstarter will be closed by the time WordCamp comes, I’ll get no financial benefit from this at all. …
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Topher DeRosia: Introduction to Plugin Development
This talk is about getting started making plugins. The only requirement is some knowledge of PHP. This talk is ideal for people who have put PHP into functions.php and then …
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Topher DeRosia: WordPress Data Filtering
This talk covers the theories and functions dealing with validating input and sanitizing output. It starts at the very basic, and wind up with some discussion of the trickier parts …
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Topher DeRosia: Command Line Awesome
This presentation covers tips and tricks for working on the command line. It also reviews WP CLI; installation and usage.
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Topher DeRosia: Site Caching, From Nothing to Everything
We’ll discuss how to speed up your site using caching via easy plugins like WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache, transients, and server site options like Memcache, APC, and …
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Including parent theme CSS
Have you ever opened the style.css file of a child theme and found something like this?
@import url("../make/style.css");
You don’t want that. @import has a negative impact on page load, …
