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One Week Till Foundation Friday

Foundation Friday is just one week away! We’re so happy that this new addition to WordCamp Milwaukee proved as interesting to you all out there as we thought! The WordPress User 101 and WordPress Developer 101 workshops have both sold out!

Here’s what we have planned for you lucky ticket holders:

WordPress User 101

  • 1:00 WordPress.com vs WordPress.org: What hosting solution is right for you? Presented by Heather Acton (the User 101 team lead)
  • 2:00 Getting Started with WordPress.org: Part 1: Choosing a domain and a host, Installing WordPress, choosing a theme and plugins for your site. Presented by Joshua Alexander, Kari Sharp and Rose Fields
  • 3:00 Getting Started with WordPress.org: Part 2: The WordPress Admin Dashboard, Creating Pages and Posts. Presented by Joshua Alexander, Kari Sharp and Rose Fields
  • 4:00 Blogging Basics: Where to write a blog post, getting people to read, share and comment. Defining categories, tags, links and structuring a good blog post. Plus a couple of cool tips and tricks. Presented by Kimanzi Constable

For those of you just getting your feet wet with WordPress, this afternoon will get you up to speed, and ready for the weekend.

WordPress Developer 101

Developers being developers, the exact schedule probably won’t be defined till Thursday night. Here are some of the topics currently being bandied about:

  • What happens when (a) WordPress loads and (b) gets a request
  • File Structure
  • Debugging Tools
  • Actions and Filters
  • wp-settings.php
  • The building blocks of web development: HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript

John James Jacoby is leading the Developer 101 team, so be confident you will have one awesome afternoon, getting you ready for the main event.

See you next week!

Sponsor Spotlight: Bluehost

We are grateful to have Bluehost as our Pillar sponsor this year. A longtime supporter of the WordPress community, Bluehost sponsors every WordCamp in North America! They’ve been on the WordPress.org recommended hosting provider list since 2005.

Based in Utah, Bluehost has been hosting websites for businesses and individuals since 1996 (remember that the World Wide Web was only invented in 1993!). Today, they host over 2.2 million domain names, and will host your WordPress site for as little as $4.95 per month. Do I have to mention that the Bluehost blog is on WordPress too? Unlimited space, unlimited file transfer, unlimited email accounts – what more could you want? Visit Bluehost.com for more information.

Thanks, Bluehost!

Next Thursday: Debugging WordPress

We are counting down the days till WordCamp Milwaukee 2013! Just ahead of Foundation Friday next week, John James Jacoby (JJJ) will lead a special edition of the Milwaukee WordPress Meetup on Debugging WordPress.

JJJ works at the highest levels of WordPress: He’s the lead developer of BuddyPress and BBPress, but also codes on the WordPress core and the WordPress.com VIP program. He’s also a recent transplant to southeastern Wisconsin, which is cool by itself!

Next Thursday, we will be learning the keys to debugging WordPress and getting to the bottom of all of those problems you have with your WordPress site, custom theme, or plugin. JJJ will get down and dirty and let us know how to find all those WP bugs that are hiding. He’ll also be speaking Saturday at WordCamp on “Scrubbing WordPress – The Actions Timeline.”

The fine folks at C2 Graphics are sponsoring food and beverages for the meetup, so there’s no need to stop for food on the way. Just head on over to Bucketworks (the same location as WordCamp) Thursday night, June 6 at 7:00 PM.

Not to discourage you, but with a whole bunch of WordPress folk gathering at the Camp site, we’ll be taking advantage. Expect to be asked to help set up for Foundation Friday.

Please RSVP at the Meetup site, so we have enough food!

Celebrate 10 Years of WordPress tonight

It’s been ten years (and a day) since Matt Mullenweg revived a dying blogging platform and started building this community that makes WordPress.

WordPress was released on May 27, 2003, but with Memorial Day we are waiting a day and doing it on Tuesday.

Come celebrate with us at Callanan’s Parkway Pub, 11505 West National Avenue, West Allis, WI (see map here)

This will be a purely social gathering with no formal presentation. Just a gathering to network and enjoy some food and drinks.

This is part of a world-wide meetup by WordPress, so RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/WordPress/Milwaukee-WI/