May 22, 2012

Code Poet (re)launches: Resource for Developers

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Automattic’s Code Poet website has been relaunched as a resource for WordPress professionals. It’s targeted at developers, consultants, and other types of folks who make a living by building things with WordPress:

If you use WordPress to build things for other people, we want 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, our 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.

The old developers directory is still available at directory.codepoet.com.

May 17, 2012

wpMail.me Issue #52

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Here’s the latest WordPress news headlines from wpMail.me:

WP App Store (wpappstore.com)
Purchase & install themes and plugins from top brands directly from your WordPress dashboard.

Calling All Contributors: Community Summit 2012 (wordpress.org)
Each year, the WordPress core development team meets in person for a week to work together and discuss the vision for WordPress in the coming year.

Free Template For Designing WordPress Admin Icons (kremalicious.com)
Here’s a template for designing your own icons for the admin area of WordPress and some recommendations for the workflow of implementing these.

WordPress Logo QR Code (dougal.gunters.org)
This is a valid (no errors) QR code which points to the wordpress.org website.

How I built “Have Baby. Need Stuff!” (markjaquith.wordpress.com)
Mark Jaquith wrote an awesome blog post describing how he went about building a website called Have Baby. Need Stuff!

Free Yourself from the Tyranny of Sharepoint (www.govloop.com)
There are alternatives to Sharepoint that actually work in ways that ordinary humans can understand. WordPress for example!

Simple WordPress Tricks on How to UN-Bury Your Old Posts (themefuse.com)
If you’re spending any serious amount of time on crafting your posts, then you naturally want them to be seen by as many people as possible.

Get headlines like these sent directly to your email inbox! Just sign up at wpMail.me.

May 16, 2012

WordCamp 2012 Speaker & Volunteer Apps

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Hey folks! WordCamp Toronto 2012 will be taking place this September 29-30th @ George Brown College in downtown Toronto. Our first versions of the Volunteer and Speakers application forms are now available. If you’re interested in presenting at the event, or helping us out with WCTO, head over to the WordCamp Toronto website and drop us a message.

Become a Speaker – Application Form
Volunteer at WordCamp Toronto 2012 – Application Form

May 10, 2012

May 2012 Meetup: osCommerce & WordPress

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Saturday, May 12 @ 2:00pm
ING Network Orange Cafe
Downtown Toronto (Yonge & Shuter, SE Corner)

Our meetup this month, presented by Ruth Maude of Dandelion Web Design, focuses on the integration of osCommerce and WordPress.

As per our last few meetups, we’ll be gathering upstairs at ING’s Network Orange cafe in downtown Toronto, conveniently situated on Yonge Street opposite the Eaton Centre.

From our Meetup page:

osCommerce is one of the most widely-used, stable e-commerce platforms and, like WordPress, osCommerce is open source.

Long before she’d even heard of WordPress, Ruth Maude, of Dandelion Web Design, was designing and building osCommerce online stores for clients.

Now that 90% of her web design projects use WordPress, Ruth is actually integrating osCommerce stores right into WordPress sites for her clients.

At our May 12th Meetup you’ll learn how you can run anosCommerce store from inside your WordPress site with the WP Online Store plugin.

You can RSVP for the meetup on the event page.

Thanks to ING Direct for continuing to provide space for our group!

May 8, 2012

WordPress news via wpMail.me

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The WordPress community is growing quickly, and it can be hard to stay on top of all the comings and goings.

Cue wpMail.me. It’s a free, weekly newsletter that pulls together the most important WordPress news headlines.

May 4, 2012

Using the Theme Customizer in WordPress 3.4

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WordPress wiseguy Otto has put together a handy little guide to implementing the new Theme Customizer on your own WordPress themes.

After you’ve checked out the embedded video (posted below), head over to his blog for the relevant how-to stuff.

Source: Otto on WordPress – How to leverage the Theme Customizer in your own themes

Mar 11, 2012

Toronto WordPress Group: March 2012 Meetup

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This month’s WordPress meetup was our first one to be held above the ING Cafe in downtown Toronto, and we couldn’t be more impressed with the space! It was a perfect fit for us.

If you’d like to present at a future meetup, drop us a line!

Announcements

WordCamp Toronto 2012 is happening this autumn! We’re aiming for a late September date.
Developers’ WordCamp Toronto 2012 (aka WordCamp Toronto 2012 for Developers) is also in the works.
George Brown College will play host to both conferences. More details to come!
Want to learn more about the development side of WordPress? Join the Toronto WordPress Developers Group! We meet once a month to talk shop – building plugins, themes, and more.
We have a room booked at ING Network Orange straight through til’ June 2012. The space is limited, so please keep your RSVP updated!

Presentation: The Publishing Side of WordPress

Our March meetup for the Toronto WordPress Group focused on the publishing side of WordPress, a topic that applies to users of both WordPress.org and WordPress.com.

You can find the slides embedded below the jump, and it’s also available on SlideShare. A big thanks to Sacha Chua (@sachac on Twitter) for putting together a handy sketchnote version of the presentation.

Feb 29, 2012

Mobile Web Development with Dale Mugford

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Our inaugural Toronto WordPress Developers meetup took place last night at Workplace One. Dale Mugford of BraveNewCode — the team behind the highly successful WPtouch plugin for WordPress – put together a stellar presentation on the subject of cutting-edge mobile web development.

You can find a copy of his slide deck here: http://www.bravenewcode.com/wpdevto/

Thanks again to Workplace One for providing the venue, and thanks to everyone that came out! We intend to continue hosting these events once a month, most likely on Tuesday nights.

Jan 27, 2012

2012: Year of the WordPress Meetup

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From the official WordPress blog:

We hereby declare 2012 as the Year of the WordPress Meetup. You’ll want to get in on this action.
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We don’t want it to cost anything for someone to run a WordPress meetup, or to attend one — building local communities should be as free as WordPress itself!

Since there are so many more meetups than there are WordCamps, we’re going to start with the cost that is the same for every group: meetup.com organizer dues. We’re setting up an official WordPress account on Meetup.com right now, and over the next couple of weeks will be working with existing meetup group organizers, people who want to start a new meetup group, and the helpful folks at Meetup.com to put this program in place. WordPress meetup groups that choose to have their group become part of the WordPress account will no longer pay organizer dues for that group, as the WordPress Foundation will be footing the bill.

What does this mean for the Toronto WordPress Group and Toronto WordPress Developers Meetup? We’re not entirely sure yet, but based on Jane’s post, it looks like we can expect some serious support from the WordPress Foundation. We’re really excited to see what they have in store for us.

» Source: Year of the Meetup (WordPress News)

Jan 21, 2012

Toronto WordPress January 2012 Meetup

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Our first meetup of 2012 takes place today!

We’ve booked the 2nd floor of Pauper’s Pub (near Bloor & Bathurst).

From the Meetup event page:

We’re still working on securing the best venue for our regular meetups (we have the Thompson Block at the ING Network Orange facility booked for March and April) but, for January, we’ve reserved the entire second floor of Pauper’s Pub, at Bloor & Bathurst.

For anyone who was there in May last year, you’ll recall that it is a great space, and we will be able to connect a laptop to one of their big screens, so we can have a proper presentation.

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