pink('wordpress', 4) // WP Custom Development

In the past few years, WordPress has risen to dominate the blogging arena. But it’s not just for blogging anymore! Since version 2.8, all sorts of goodies have been added to WordPress’s core that let you expand its functionality from mere blogging software to robust CMS. Things that once required a slew of plugins can now be done with a few edits to your functions.php file.

In this talk, you will learn how to make a child theme and extend it with custom post and content types, custom taxonomies, menus, post images, and more. Once you learn these simple techniques, you can start configuring themes to do almost anything, from dynamic image sliders to art galleries. Before you consider another CMS, before you install a complicated plugin, check out what a little WordPress dev can do for you!

Your presenter for the night is Rachel Nabors (http://rachelnabors.com/) of Smashing Boxes (http://smashingboxes.com/). Rachel lives in Raleigh with her husband and a slew of orchids. She is an award-winning cartoonist whose comics can be found at rachelthegreat.com (http://rachelthegreat.com/), which runs on WordPress, too.

This meeting will be 7 o’clock, Wednesday August 31st at Media Two Interactive. Hope to see you there!