There are a few blogs I follow pretty closely, and one of them predictably is Brian Gardner's (predictably because he's behind Genesis and I'm a bit of a fan). A while back Brian put together a tutorial about making a social media icon menu - I took it on board, I like rolling my own social icon displays and didn't want to load up my site with plugins that always seem to miss that one social network I want people be able to get to. So, given that I'm putting together a new 'site image' for … [Read more...]
Customize Meteor Slides with Advanced Custom Fields
I've spent a large block of time recently working on a project for a new client, intent on proving just how slick it is to build sites from a really solid, clean, FAST platform (Genesis - affiliate link). BUT I found myself stuck on an issue with the front page development and realised just how much of a handicap it can be when you get so welded to a 'way of doing things' that you forget just what else is out there. Here's the problem. The site needs a paginated, slideshow for the front page … [Read more...]
WordCamp Sydney 2012
If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook you'll be aware that most of my world, of late has been consumed by a wee event we call WordCamp, or, more precisely, WordCamp Sydney 2012. Basically, I like WordCamps and so decided to get a group together to make one of our very own. That was in November... so fast forward to today when it's 2 days out from the event and I'm sitting here (with a list of things still to do as long as my arm) thinking about you, and what you'll think of this little event … [Read more...]
Using Gravity Forms to Create Custom Post Type Entries
I was approached by a client recently who wanted a solution to display captured data on their website in the kind of way you'd need to do if you were creating an online petition and wanted to display signatories. In this case the client is creating a pledge form and simply wanted to create a page that lists the names of the pledgers, their age, city, state and country. I googled around to find a solution and in the course of all of that I discovered that we could use Gravity Forms to create … [Read more...]
Theme Template Helper
This is the tiniest, most useful blog post ever. This piece of code has made me look really intelligent more than once in the last few weeks, so it's only fair I share it... I call it Mother's little Theme Template Helper. If you're wanting to find out exactly which template the page you're looking at is being built from, paste this little piece of code in your functions file https://gist.github.com/thewebprincess/5668762 This will print the url of the appropriate template in the … [Read more...]
Building the WordPress Community on WordPress.tv
Well, would you look at that... the Web Princess now on WordPress TV!! Here you can see me, in living colour, presenting at WordCamp New Zealand April 21 2012 on the subject of Building the WordPress Community!! Share and Enjoy!! … [Read more...]
So You Want to Organize a WordCamp
What on earth are you thinking? Why on earth do you want to organize a WordCamp? You're not an event planner!! You're a (check one) [ ]Web Developer [ ]Web Designer [ ]Blogger [ ]Wo/Man on the Street I know, right? You went to WordCamp somewhere and you came away thinking your village/town/city needs a WordCamp too, and since then you've been possessed by that idea and now you're on the verge of filling in the form and submitting your application to organise a WordCamp (or, god forbid, you've … [Read more...]
Recent Presentation – Building the WordPress Community
I have had the good fortune to present this talk at two recent WordPress events - WordCamp New Zealand, and the Melbourne WordPress meetup just last night. Both events were great, both chances to speak were both exciting and a tiny bit nerve wracking, I guess that's normal but it all seems to me that all the important points were made, and the best news is that some action has been taken as a result of it with a number of new meetups being born across the ditch in NZ! So stoked to hear it - … [Read more...]
WordCamp Sydney | July 21-22 2012
It wasn't really a heat of the moment thing... All the way through WordCamp Gold Coast all I could think about was... we need a WordCamp in Sydney, it's been way too long. And blow me down if there weren't other people at #wcgold thinking the same thing. So we talked about it over a couple of beers (as you do) and the idea kept getting more compelling so we came home from the conference and we read the instructions and muggins here filled out the form and applied. So, now I can wear the … [Read more...]
Getting to Grips with e-Commerce
I had the good fortune to be called on to speak at the March WordPress Sydney meetup last month and am only now posting my slides. Sorry for the delay, life has been... busy. The talk was pretty informal and centred mostly around actually planning your e-Commerce store BEFORE you actually start building it... get to grips first with the things you're going to want out of your store before you actually start building. Having a solid plan will, or at the very least should, influence the … [Read more...]