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Learning WordPress Sucks
And What You Can Do About It
Is this you?
And it still doesn't do
what you want it to do.
So whats's next?
Do what?
You're not a coder
You need to know
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
PHP
JSON
AJAX
JQuery
DNS
Git
Local install
Deployment
Photoshop
ALL THE THINGS!
OK. Here's the plan.
Chrislema.com
Become a WordPress Ninja in 1400 Days
Year One
Book: Professional WordPress: Design & Development
Year One
Play with WordPress.org on a host
Explore themes and plugins
Check out theme frameworks
Learn to write child themes
Focus on things like
Metaboxes
Actions and filters
Theme templates
Year Two
Year of the plugin
Single-function ones
Read the codex like the Bible
Read everything Pippin writes
Year Three
Get involved in the community
Write some posts
Speak at a WordCamp
Contribute to core
Create an extension for an existing plugin
Write a plugin for a theme framework
Year Four
Find a group or team to collaborate with
But
I'm not interested in learning all of that
My site doesn't need all that stuff
I don't have a site to work on
Three approaches
1. Find a sad, sorry website and build a good one
2. Find a great site and copy it
3. Make it up
Now to begin…
WordPress.org
Lessons
Codex
Forums
Books
WordPress for Dummies
WordPress for Web Designers
Professional WordPress Design and Development
Videos
Lynda.com
Treehouse
YouTube
Courses
Your Website Engineer
WebDesign (iThemes)
Boulder Digital Arts
Schools
Mythical?
Mentor
Worth every penny
Mentor
Worth every penny beer
Networking
WordPress.org forum
WordPress meetups
WordCamps
Google+
Co-working spaces
Coffee shops
Podcasts
Dradcast
WP Watercooler
Your Website Engineer
Shop Talk
WP Plugins A to Z
Apply Filters
WP Elevation
You can't learn WordPress from a…
Book
Video
Tutorial
You gotta...
And when you’re feeling stupid and
overwhelmed
(because you will)
Just remember how far you’ve come
And know that the people you respect
and admire…
Feel the same way too
You can do it
But you can’t do it overnight
You don’t have to do it alone
Ride Your Own Ride
Julie Kuehl
@juliekuehl
www.juliekuehl.com
(it’s pronounced “keel” but I’m good with “cool” too )
http://www.slideshare.net/JulieKuehl