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Customizing the WordPress Admin : WPNYC Meetup Recap

February 22, 2013 By Chrisdigital 3 Comments

Customizing the WordPress Admin : WPNYC Meetup Recap

Last Tuesday, on a drizzly February night, several scores of intrepid WordPress fans came out to the latest WordPress NYC meetup, “Customizing the WordPress Admin” hosted at New Work City. I have been rather busy in recent months and I found this latest subject rather serendipitous. Why you ask?… well, you may recall that last Summer’s WordCamp New York Meetup was jam-packed with good information and as an attendee, I couldn’t experience all of it. Needless to say, choosing which seminars to attend seemed like a series of terrible sacrifices. But, I was happy to learn that Helen Hou-Sandí (Director of User Interface Engineering at 10up) was doing a reprise of her talk that I missed last June…

Filed Under: WordPress Tagged With: #wpnyc, customizing WordPress themes, Recap, Using WordPress as CMS, WordPress CMS

The CMS power of WordPress

February 20, 2010 By Chrisdigital 2 Comments

The CMS power of WordPress

I’ve been working a lot in Wordpress lately, and it started to dawn on me how powerful the software is. I can only imagine what’s coming in Wordpress 3.0. The power I’m referring to specifically, is the ability to use custom fields with posts/pages. This basically allows an editor the ability to associate related information with a entry or record into the database. As a simple example, visualize splitting an entry into 3 variations: Full, summary, tease (or large, medium, small) and have every thing encapsulated in the same database record. Here on ChrisDigital’s Digital Designer Blog, I’m using this in the Bookmark links section to grab the “referrer”, “source” and their URLS from each post. This is very cool…

Filed Under: WordPress Tagged With: Blogging, CMS, Custom fields, Plugins, UI, Using WordPress as CMS, WordPress CMS