In early August, Liza from A Maui Blog contacted me about helping her to upgrade her blog to WordPress 3.0. She also wanted to update here main menu. The initial challenge in this was that her theme at the time used some hard-coded button images in a table for the menu, thereby preventing her from being able to easily update her menu items.
The solution? A WordPress 3.0, Twenty Ten child theme. I’ve been doing a lot of work with Twenty Ten child themes for workshops over the last several months …

Yesterday I presented a 6 hour workshop on some advanced WordPress topics. In all, about 12 people showed up to learn how to go beyond the basics in WordPress. The goal of the workshop was rather ambitious – to teach students, many with no prior experience with HTML, CSS or PHP, how to customize a WordPress theme. The experience level of the students in the workshop ran the spectrum from those with absolutely no experience with coding to a few that had some HTML and CSS experience but had never …

On Friday, June 18, more than 20 Maui small business owners attended an introductory WordPress workshop hosted by the Maui Economic Development Board’s High Tech Maui Program. We had a lot of material to cover in four hours. Like trying to drink from a fire hose, there’s just no way to catch everything.  So, below are the slides used in the first portion of the workshop. For best results, toggle to full screen mode, by clicking on the little menu icon in the lower left corner of the presentation, then …

One of the reasons WordPress is such a popular website publishing tool is that it makes it easy for people to create a website without having to know how to code. People can create basic websites without having to know a single bit of html, CSS or PHP code. But what if you want to customize a theme or create a custom home page or add a featured content slider on the home page? To really maximize the power of WordPress and customize things you’ll find that you need to …

In Tuesday’s Wordpress workshop, How to Use Wordpress for Your Business Website, we covered the basics of Wordpress that people need to know to build their own business website without having to know any html or php code. If you missed this workshop, I’ll be repeating it again on Friday, June 18th. More information and online registration for that workshop is available on the High Tech Maui website. Register early. The last workshop filled up.
At the end of Tuesday’s workshop I asked how many people were interested in going deeper …