WordPress and Beer: Homebrew web applications with WP

WordPress is an incredible platform for building full-featured, customized web applications. Every beer on the planet is made from the same four ingredients: hops, water, barley and yeast. Similarly, WordPress is built around a small feature set (posts, pages, media and tags), but from these you can build anything from a single blog to a major news network.

We’ll look at how to take it a step further - adding and removing features to create web applications that act in entirely new and surprising ways. In this session we will to look at the similarities between everyone’s favorite blogging platform and everyone’s favorite alcoholic beverage. Together, we’ll explore what makes these items so versatile and extendable. Using examples, Gabriel hopes to show how WP can help you create web applications better and faster than traditional platforms.

About the presenter
Gabriel Nagmay works as a web analyst for Portland Community College community, which serves 100,000+ students a year. He is also an avid beer brewer. http://gabriel.nagmay.com/

Partnership
This presentation will be held in conjunction with CrowdSource Summit, a conference for emerging Web professionals. http://crowdsource.highedweb.org/

Free food!
Food and drink will be complimentary to all meetup attendees.