Live Blogging: Notes from NWA Techfest 2012

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Having an awesome morning at NWA Techfest, great turnout for the inaugural event. Since all of my slides are ready for my 2pm presentation I figured I would live blog my notes (since I left my moleskin at home). So, if you were unable to make it up to Fayetteville this morning, enjoy... https://twitter.com/cottonr/status/239030698994962434 Had an early morning spotting of the one and only @arlton (Arlton Lowry). Had an awesome time hanging … [Read more...]

WordPress Menu Support for Older Themes

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As a lot of you that are die-hard Wordpress users are probably already aware, Wordpress has launched their new menu builders under the appearance tab. The menu builder will allow you to create a menu from any categories, pages and links, order them by drag and drop, create submenus, etc. This is something that I am pretty sure was contributed to core from the good people at WooThemes, because they had this for a while in some of their theme … [Read more...]

Presentation Preview for #WCFay

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I will be doing a presentation titled 'Making WordPress Profitable for Agencies / Design Firms' during Wordcamp Fayetteville this year, which is taking place on July 30, 2011 in Fayetteville, at the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Enterprise Development. If you haven't registered already, there is still time, the price for general admission is $35 and you can click here to register online. The people in charge at #WCFay asked me to do a short … [Read more...]

Projects: Conway Faith Church Redesign

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Recently I have been working on a wordpress theme redesign for one of our ministry clients, Conway Faith Church. After getting some input from their senior pastor regarding what he wanted to see incorporated into the new design I set out to design this new layout built upon the Studiopress Genesis Framework. With just a handful of change requests Pastor Burden signed off on this new design pretty quickly. I should have it ready to … [Read more...]

Your Thoughts on WordPress?

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I pretty much develop all of my clients websites these days using wordpress as the backend content management system unless there are some really far out project requirements that I don’t see wordpress as a good fit for. Honestly I don’t hear many project requirements these days that won’t work inside of wordpress, especially given the number of plugins that are available. In fact, did you know that you can now deploy a plugin that will … [Read more...]