LiveBlogging at WordCamp Philippines (6th Sept. 2008!)

 

Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp, De La Salle - College of Saint Benilde

 

 

- got my ID and organizer t-shirt

- Dean BenHur Ong giving the opening remarks

- Blogie speaking now, talking about Mindanao and acknowledging Matt Mullenweg

- Migs talking about the schedule for the day

- Gail Villanueva on CSS with WordPress

- Gail now working with “The Loop” (kind of hard to see)

- helping out Gail to zoom in and out of her presentation

- listening to Markku Seguerra’s plug-in dev talk

- listening to Karla Vanessa Redor

- autoshows.ford.com

- optional excerpt as thumbnail

- coffee2code

- pagenav with us of is_page() conditional tag

- Sobek’s post in Category

- Most popular topics based on number of comments

- Most commented or Popularity plugin

- Make is a parent category

- Different template bsed on this category (i.e. category-14.php)

- Usage of Sobek’s Post in Categories or Customizable Post Listings plugin

- Image gallergy in a post

- Inline Gallery plugin or the NexGen gallery

- WP-email, WP-PostRatings and Share This Classic plugins

- Karla now on thinkvitamincom

- showing moo.com

- greens.ph

- useful them functions: wp_list_pages – show list of WP pages as links

- the_excerpt – shows the optional excerpt or the first 55 words of the post

- the_meta – shows the list of custom fields

- get_post_meta – shows a particular custom field

- More Template tags

- conditional tags like: is_home(), is_front_page(), is_page()/is_page(’29′)/is_page(‘About’)/is_page(‘about’)/is_page(array(’29′,’About’), is_category()

- CForms, Dagon Design sitemap, Pagemash, Customizable Post listings

- sample custom field

<?php

$prodimg = get_post_meta($post->ID,’productimage’, true);

echo $prodimg;

// this will return one value

// if not true it will returna all values for the key

?>

- other recommended plugins: Subscrie2, Event Calendar 3, FLutter aka Fresh Post – easily compose your post and alows you quickly change the look and behavior of your theme on the fly

- Aileen Apolo now on Google Analytics works

Thanks to Jane for this photo of me with Matt Mullenweg (“W” is for WordPress NOT West Side!)

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