LoopConf: The Best Conference I Won’t Be Attending

For those of you that are passionate about WordPress, especially the technical side of it, there is an upcoming conference that looks like it will be absolutely amazing. LoopConf is being held in Las Vegas in about 2 weeks. At $675 each, the cost of the tickets is more on-par with academic conferences than with WordCamps, but the […]

Writing a WordPress Plugin – HEWeb Southeast

Yesterday, I had the great pleasure of reworking and reprising one of my old workshops. At HighEdWeb Southeast, at Frances Marion University, I presented a half-day workshop explaining the basics of developing a WordPress plugin. The plugin implements a very basic functionality allowing you to insert a greeting along with the user’s name. The first […]

WordPress 3.7 is Here! Are You Ready?

This evening, WordPress 3.7 was officially released. The biggest change in this latest version of WordPress is the auto-update functionality. Once you upgrade to WordPress 3.7, you won’t have to worry about manually updating the site again until the next major version is released; you read that right, WordPress will automatically update itself any time […]

John Carroll University

John Carroll is a private, coeducational, Jesuit Catholic university providing programs of study in the liberal arts, sciences, and business at the undergraduate level and in selected areas at the master’s level.