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Customize Meteor Slides with Advanced Custom Fields

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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 (ok, not much of a problem, every site on the Internet*, has one of those…) whose images link to a specific URL and in which you can include a heading and descriptive text.

WordCamp Sydney 2012

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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 we’ve pulled together.

I truly hope you have a blast, that you meet and make friends who you’ll spend the time between this WordCamp and the next tweeting, Skyping and supporting as you play together in the WordPress space. I hope you’ll get tools to make your WordPress experience better, either as a user or as a designer/developer. I hope you’ll meet people who will help you grow your business beyond anything you could have dreamed or imagined. And, above all, I hope you’ll do everything you can to get everything you can out of this event.

Using Gravity Forms to Create Custom Post Type Entries

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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 you could use Gravity Forms (and a handy dandy plugin) to create Custom Post Type entries. In its simplest setting, you create a form on your page and map the form so that it creates the post entries that we can then display in an archive template which regurgitates the relevant data and displays it in a list. It seems like the kind of thing other people might be interested in doing as well… here’s how I pulled it off.

Theme Template Helper

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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

Building the WordPress Community on WordPress.tv

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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!!

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So You Want to Organize a WordCamp

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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 already filled it in…)

STOP IT – STOP IT AT ONCE

Recent Presentation – Building the WordPress Community

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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 – hopefully some more engagement will come in various places both there and here as a result. And hopefully more people will attend WordCamps as well (next one… WordCamp Sydney 2012 http://2012.sydney.wordcamp.org #justsaying)

WordCamp Sydney | July 21-22 2012

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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 WordCamp organiser badge… you know, if there were such a thing.

Getting to Grips with e-Commerce

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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 choice of plugins you use. Because not all e-commerce plugins are created equal.

Here are the slides…

Creating a Wholesaler Role in WP e-Commerce – Part Two

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So now we get to play with some of the other cool functionality I used to extend the Wholesaler experience for both Sarah and the user.

4. Customising the Registration page to allow for custom fields.

I mentioned Gravity Forms in the previous post as an integral part of this process.  Sarah was already using this plugin because it’s awesome and makes lovely, functional forms really easily. So I was stoked to find that the added functionality we needed was available as an add on and yes, I mentioned also that this add on is only available to users with a Developer license.  (Seriously, it’s so totally worth it, as you’ll see below…)

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