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Podcamp Halifax 2012: WordPress Workshop

I’m running the following session at the Podcamp Halifax unconference today:

WordPress Workshop

After a 5 min intro including what’s new in the latest release of WordPress (and what’s coming in the next version), I’ll ask attendees what they’d like to hear. Do you want me to show you how to install WordPress? Maybe you’d like to hear what a child theme is? How about some awesome WordPress plugins? It’s like a choose your own adventure, but with WordPress instead of dragons.

The following are my notes for the session. There are no slides.

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