Wordpress in the Wild — bigSWIG

A talk at a Wordpress user group bigSWIG meeting in Liverpool, emphasising the importance of learning from personal projects, in this case MegaDrive.me, a personal site I created to learn more about Wordpress and PHP.

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1. WordPress in the wild— megadrive.me Jake Smith / @jake74 / @megadriveme bigSWIG / Liverpool / 24.01.12
9. “Why don’t we have something like this?” Me—mid October 2011
13. Custom Post Types— Post types for different Mega Drive media
14. Cartridge RAM size Battery back-up Full list of release dates Full list of prices Portrait cover image CD-Rom Number of discs RAM back-up Missing detailed info Square cover image
15. http://themergency.com/generators/wordpress-custom-post-types/
18. Advanced Custom Fields— WordPress plugin
30. Amazon EC2 hosting— Amazon Web Services, cheap micro instances
31. http://calebogden.com/wordpress-on-linux-in-the-amazon-cloud-with-mac/
34. Have an interest, get a hobby, make things about it. The best way to learn is for yourself.
35. Thank you. @jake74