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Speaking at WordCamp Austin 2017

I'm excited to announce that I have been selected to speak at WordCamp Austin the weekend of October 21-22! A couple of months ago, I submitted a talk titled "WordPress from a Joomla perspective" to present at WordCamp Austin, and I found out last night that my talk was selected! I'm excited for the opportunity to share my experience with the WordPress community and make some new friends along the way.

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Why I simultaneously love and hate networking

Networking is a part of life for any professional. No, not the process of wiring computers together. I'm talking about conferences, local industry groups, chambers of commerce, after hours meetups, etc. There are endless opportunities to network, and I both love and hate it. Let me explain.

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WordPress concepts for Joomla developers: Template Hierarchy

This is the third concept in a series of blog posts about WordPress concepts for Joomla developers. In this post, I will be talking about the WordPress template hierarchy. As we discussed in the post about themes, WordPress themes only require an index.php file and a style.css file. The index.php file is actually the default page template in a WordPress theme. The theme may also include any number of other page templates that have a file name that follows a specific naming convention supported by WordPress. These templates make up the WordPress template hierarchy.

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WordPress concepts for Joomla developers: Sidebars and Widgets

If you read my first post comparing WordPress theme development to Joomla template development, welcome back! In this series on WordPress concepts for Joomla developers, I am covering the similarities and differences between WordPress development and Joomla development to help Joomla developers become more comfortable with WordPress development. The goal of this series is not to convert Joomla developers to become WordPress developers, but to help and encourage all developers to become more well-rounded web developers in order to provide the best possible solutions for your clients.

In this post, I will cover sidebars and widgets. Sidebars and widgets are most analogous to Joomla module positions and modules respectively. There are many similarities between the sidebars and module positions and between widgets and modules, but there are also some subtle differences that might leave Joomla developers scratching their heads.

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WordPress concepts for Joomla developers: Themes

This is the first in a series of blog posts containing WordPress concepts for Joomla developers. The idea is to explain WordPress concepts from the perspective of a Joomla developer to help you get a better understanding of how WordPress and Joomla are similar and how they are different.

This first post deals with WordPress themes. The purpose of this post is to compare and contrast WordPress themes with Joomla templates. The purpose is not to do a deep dive into WordPress theming. There are plenty of tutorials on the web to help you take the next steps toward becoming a WordPress theme developer.

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