After missing a few Wordpress meetups I really wanted to attend, I made time this week to head out to the Wordpress Meetup NYC at it's new location hosted at NYU Poly, and I made sure I RSVP’ed to get a slot. Especially, since in this edition the topic was a hot one, Brad Williams of WebDevStudios presented Intro to WordPress Plugin Development. Brad coincidentally runs the Philly Wordpress meetup and if this presentation was any indication it’s also definitely worth attending on a regular basis as well. Read my recap and check out the bullet points I walked away with…
Looking behind the curtain of WordPress 3.0
I went to my first Wordpress NYC Meetup yesterday, and I was pretty excited about it. It was serendipity that my work load started to ease up when this meetup was scheduled, and I wanted to hear directly from others what they were up to with Wordpress. Since I’ve had my head down the last few months fine tuning this blog, I also wanted to know about issues I might run into down the line with the pending release of Wordpress 3.0 coming later this year. At the time of this writing it’s currently in its second beta and a lot is still in flux. This topic was a hot one and it was reported 94 souls braved the rain and schlepped it to mid-town NYC to get some insight into what’s coming next for Wordpress fans….