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WordPress in the Workplace panel Thursday night in Dallas

November 17, 2010 Stephanie Leary 2 Comments

Tomorrow night, I’ll be in Dallas for the #dfwwptech (WordPress Developer and Technical User Group in Dallas/Fort Worth) meeting, a panel on WordPress in the Workplace. For this event, I’m wearing a slightly different hat and will be speaking not so much as the author of a book on WordPress, but as someone who uses it in a day-job setting — in my case, in a university network. There’s an interesting mix of speakers, and I’m looking forward to meeting the others.

The list of potential topics is:

  • Why WordPress?
  • Examples of business sites running WordPress
  • New features from WordPress 3.0 in action
  • Strategies for handling upgrades
  • Why not WordPress? (Common pitfalls and drawbacks)
  • Coding techniques and plugin recommendations
  • Themes: Modify existing themes or write your own?
  • GPL: Releasing WordPress themes and plugins
  • Does anyone really pay for WordPress plugins or themes?
  • Selling services around WordPress
  • Thoughts on hosting providers

… and of course we’ll be taking questions.

WordPress dfwwptech

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  1. Doug Stewart says

    November 17, 2010 at 4:22 pm

    If I may, a bit of self-horn-tooting on this subject:

    Here’s my slide deck from WordCamp Philly, presented on the same subject matter. http://literalbarrage.org/blog/archives/2010/10/30/making-wordpress-work-at-work/

    Hope the session goes well!

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    • Stephanie says

      November 17, 2010 at 5:04 pm

      “Risk-averse. Averse to risk. Unlikely to tolerate risky activities.” Hilarious. And good info. Thanks for sharing!

      Reply

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