If you’re confused by custom post types, Denise Tawwab’s session, Custom Post Types – A Case Study will help clear the view. “An attendee will leave this session having walked through a complete implementation of a custom post type.” Denise says. “While creating a custom post type has become fairly easy (thanks to some awesome tutorials and plug-ins), figuring out the taxonomy and getting that custom data to show up on the front end of the website is still a mystery to many — especially to WordPress users (like me) who are not hard core developers. My goal is to remove some of that mystery and to give attendees a case study that they can follow when implementing their own custom solutions.  If I can get just one person to say, “NOW I get it,” I will be a happy WordCamper. :-)”.

Denise loves a lot about WordPress. “Everyday I discovery new functionality or a really cool theme or plug-in that makes me say, “Wow!” WordPress is like having a gift that keeps on giving. And the best gift by far is the awesome people in the WordPress community who are so helpful and who have personally encouraged me to push the platform and to keep on learning and growing.” Denise says.

Attend this session and get even more WordPress awesomeness at WordCamp Raleigh 2012 on Nov 3-4. Tickets are only $40 and you can register online now!

Peter Baylies session, Doing Clever Things with WordPress will provide real examples of how to approach development in WordPress. Peter feels that “WordPress is a very flexible platform with a great community behind it; this combination affords for a lot of options when building a website, and a lot of places to go for advice and assistance as well.”

Peter hopes that you’ll walk away from his session with “Confidence, hopefully; advice and encouragement about how to continue to learn and grow as a WordPress developer.”

Attend this session and get even more WordPress awesomeness at WordCamp Raleigh 2012 on Nov 3-4. Tickets are only $40 and you can register online now!

Doug Cone

Do you ever worry that your WordPress code is secure enough?  If you don’t, you probably should! Doug Cone explains in his session Writing Secure Code for WordPress. You’ll learn about what an attack can do and how WordPress works to prevent them.

“In cases where WordPress is the best choice [for designing a website], it is often so because of it’s ability to use plugins to extend and modify default behaviors. WordPress is the choice that I suggest most often to my clients because of it’s extensibility and wide community support. If I built a custom solution for you from the ground up it would be a lot harder to find someone who could fix it if I got hit by a bus…” Doug said.

Attendee’s at Doug’s session will walk away with valuable information. “I believe that attendees will walk away with a better understand of how attacks are made against websites and how to write better, more secure code the avoid these attacks and keep their plugin from being a security risk.”

Attend this session and get even more WordPress awesomeness at WordCamp Raleigh 2012 on Nov 3-4. Tickets are only $40 and you can register online now!

As the VP of McNaughton newspaper group, Joe Boydston knows newspapers. In his session WordPress is saving Journalism, you can learn about delivering them through WordPress.

When asked why he thinks WordPress is a great platform Joe replied, “Without a doubt, the community makes WordPress the platform of choice for me. It’s in the nature of open source, that we improve upon what came before us. That we make ourselves and other better in the process.”

Learn about theme building, scaling WordPress, subscription-based sites and more in Joe’s session. “Most people I talk to at WordCamps are surprised by the ways in which I demonstrate WordPress being used, Joe said. “ I’ve got a lot of think-different  kind of examples. I hope folks will be inspired to do good, to participate and continue to thrive as part of the WordPress community.”

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Grant Swaim teaches you the secrets to running a WordPress membership site in his session, WordPress Membership Solutions. “I like the flexibility the WordPress platform supports for membership solutions.” says Grant. “With the right plugins and configurations I can create anything from a traditional premium content model to an online training class and everything in between.”

Grant is a full-time automotive instructor in the North Carolina Community College system and the author of “Technology Guide for Today’s Automotive Technician”. He Grant is a true educator and is always willing to share his experiences to make the path easier for others.

“Attendees will likely leave my session with more questions than they came with,” said Grant. “However, they will be asking the right questions.”

Attend this session and get even more WordPress awesomeness at WordCamp Raleigh 2012 on Nov 3-4. Tickets are only $40 and you can register online now!