Ed does an extensive amount of work with WordPress and has become well versed in the WordPress system. Ed can install WordPress, create WordPress themes (both parent and child themes) and write WordPress plugins. He also works with PHP, HTML, CSS and jQuery in most of his projects.
WordCamp Raleigh 2013 Session: The Intimate Framework
WordCamp Raleigh 2013 Track: Developers
If you’re planning to come to WordCamp Raleigh but haven’t registered yet you’ll need to get your tickets before this Friday at noon EST to get a t-shirt! We’ll have extras ordered but we won’t be able to guarantee a shirt to anyone who registers after this Friday.
He has worked with hundreds of clients and loves showing off what WordPress can do. During the day, Michael works for Carolina Athletics as their Student Director of Technology and Development, helping to drive engagement through technology to the Carolina Athletics brand. Between all that, Michael is a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a co-organizer of the WordPress Chapel Hill Meetup.
WordCamp Raleigh 2013 Session: BuddyPress: Social Networks with WordPress
WordCamp Raleigh 2013 Track: Power Users
Very excited to announce that Treehouse is a sponsor of WordCamp Raleigh!
Treehouse is an online technology school changing the way people learn and build web design, development, mobile and business skills. Zac Gordon, our WordPress teacher has created a number of courses that start with the basics of how to use and build simple WordPress sites, to how to create custom themes from scratch, and even how to create WordPress plugins. Everyone who attends the WordCamp will receive a free account to try out Treehouse!
We’re excited to announce that CodePoet will be sponsoring WordCamp Raleigh this year!
If you use WordPress to build things for other people, Code Poet wants to make your life easier. No matter whether you freelance on a solo basis, lead a small web shop, make plugins in a dark closet, or crack the whip at a large design firm, Code Poet’s aim is to become your go-to source of information and resources to help you expand your WordPress skills and know-how. To make you better at what you do. To make it easier to make your living and look great doing it.
You’re part of a tribe of WordPress designers and developers over 10,000 strong, spanning the entire globe. codepoet.com aims to bring the working knowledge and real world strategies of those people into one place, for you to tap into.
Local organic coffee roaster Larry’s Beans have donated coffee for Raleigh WordCamp! They’ll be providing fresh brewed Mama Mile Ethiopia and Sammy Decaf Jr. to keep people jacked up for all the fun.
Julien Melissas is a 20-year old web developer from Asheville, NC with a passion for clean, efficient code, and re-doing things until they’re just right. Julien loves to learn about new up-and-coming technologies and development workflows. While he works mainly in HTML, CSS (including preprocessors like LESS and SCSS), JS/jQuery, and PHP, Julien has dabbled in JS Frameworks and Ruby on Rails. He has been working with WordPress for almost 4 years now and has grown quite fond of it. Julien now works as a Freelancer and Independent Contractor for a few local companies, where he builds custom WordPress themes and solutions tailored to the client’s needs. Julien loves custom post types, the Roots framework, and of course, Elliot Condon’s Advanced Custom Fields plugin. Julien is also a huge supporter and user of Responsive Web Design, and specifically the Twitter Bootstrap framework, which he has presented on in the past. When Julien is not in front of the screen, people can find him making music, cooking, or out in the yard gardening with his girlfriend, Hana, and their dog, Dina.
WordCamp Raleigh 2013 Session: Pushing WordPress further with Advanced Custom Fields
WordCamp Raleigh 2013 Track: Developers
We’ve very please to announce that Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Brand have offered to help sponsor WordCamp Raliegh 2013!
Jossey-Bass, publishers of Scott Berkun’s The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work, is a proud sponsor of WordCamp Raleigh.
The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work is a behind-the-scenes look at the firm behind WordPress.com and the unique work culture that contributes to its phenomenal success.
“The underlying concept—an ‘expert’ putting himself on the line as an employee—is just fantastic. And then the book gets better from there! I wish I had the balls to do this.” – Guy Kawasaki, author, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur, and former chief evangelist, Apple.
Click the book below to read a chapter
Lee Blue is the founder and lead developer of the Cart66 WordPress e-commerce plugin and Mijireh, the secure hosted checkout platform. After getting his degree in computer science, Lee worked for the United States government doing bio-terrorism surveillance and managing electronic medical records. In 2008, with a heightened awareness of security Lee approached WordPress e-commerce and developed one of the first e-commerce plugins, Cart66. For over 5 years he has been learning what people need for e-commerce and delivering solutions to the WordPress community.
WordCamp Raleigh 2013 Session: WordPress E-commerce
WordCamp Raleigh 2013 Track: Power Users
We’d like to send out a big thank you to Views for sponsoring WordCamp Raleigh 2013.
Views plugin lets you build WordPress sites from within the admin dashboard.
With Views, you can develop custom functionality in a fraction of the time it takes to code it from scratch.
Want to build beautiful sites in days instead of weeks? Visit us at wp-types.com.
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