In my recent WordCamp talks on content strategy, I've talked about content modeling in WordPress: how to analyze a site's content and break it up into new custom post types, fields, and taxonomies. I've gotten a lot of questions about it, so I'm going to spend six or seven long … [Read more...] about Content modeling for WordPress, part 1: analyze content
WordPress for Web Developers giveaway #1: FIVE copies!
Update: this contest has ended. I'll do another giveaway soon. Thank you, everyone! My copies of WordPress for Web Developers arrived Friday night, which means it's time to give away some books! This week, I will give away five copies of the book. Next week, who knows? To … [Read more...] about WordPress for Web Developers giveaway #1: FIVE copies!
Lightening up
It’s hard not to feel humorless as a woman and a feminist, to recognize misogyny in so many forms, some great and some small, and know you’re not imagining things. It’s hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you’re going to float the fuck away. The … [Read more...] about Lightening up
Not sure if you’re flirting or harassing?
Not sure if you’re flirting or harassing? Ask yourself if you’d be talking the same way if the woman were in a position of authority. If she were a police officer, who you knew had a gun and a badge, and happened to be off duty, at a bar, or a convention… You’re free to flirt, … [Read more...] about Not sure if you’re flirting or harassing?
Announcing the Women of WordPress community site, womenofwp.org
Back in April, when I wrote a rebuttal to that silly post asking where the women of WordPress are, I got a huge response. Tons of women replied (mostly on Twitter) and said they'd felt overlooked, too. As we talked back and forth, we all agreed that we wanted to do... something. … [Read more...] about Announcing the Women of WordPress community site, womenofwp.org
WordPress for Web Developers now available!
WordPress for Web Developers is out today! This is the second, much-revised and updated edition of Beginning WordPress 3, with a more accurate title. Everything's been updated for WordPress 3.6, and the chapters have been reorganized into three distinct sections that should be a … [Read more...] about WordPress for Web Developers now available!
Eighteen months
Yeah, here's to you, kid. (EIGHTEEN MONTHS? Holy crap.) … [Read more...] about Eighteen months
Speaking at WordCamp San Francisco
I'm excited to be speaking at WordCamp San Francisco this year! I'll be talking about Content Strategy for WordPress. I'm told I'm tentatively scheduled for Friday, but the whole schedule is still up in the air. WCSF. WHEE! … [Read more...] about Speaking at WordCamp San Francisco
Background noise vs. the stuff you deal with
Background noise: An offensive joke told by two men in front of you in line at the post office. “Bitch,” said about someone else. Loud phone calls on the street, as he hopes his fucking ex died or got fat. Women’s representation in any given movie. Hearing a woman’s spent too … [Read more...] about Background noise vs. the stuff you deal with
Movies about women: There are not any
In many, many parts of the country right now, if you want to go to see a movie in the theater and see a current movie about a woman — any story about any woman that isn't a documentary or a cartoon — you can't. You cannot. There are not any. You cannot take yourself to one, take … [Read more...] about Movies about women: There are not any
