Sorry there was no post on Tuesday. The good news is my grandson Ben (yes, I’m old) had the marvelous opportunity to play basketball on the home court of the Milwaukee Bucks at the Bradley Center (yes, there’s a corporate sponsor, but I’m not required to include that bank’s name) last night. His New Berlin West Vikings (western suburb of Milwaukee) played a team from Muskego (southwestern suburb) for around 10 minutes ahead of the Bucks game against the Detroit Pistons. Couldn’t tell you what the score was, but it was fun to watch, and even more fun to play! The Bucks won too!
But that’s not what I’m here to tell you about.
WPMU‘s Career Resources Page
Do you use WordPress? Want to get better at using it? Want to start developing your own themes or plugins? Think you can make a living doing any of the above? Rachel McCollin at WPMU has put together a spectacular set of links to help you do all of the above.
From WordPress Beginner to Pro: 200+ Career-Boosting Resources
McCollin walks you through the whole process of WordPress goodness:
- Getting started with WordPress: Creating your first site, using themes and plugins, adding and editing content and tweaking your site’s settings.
- Becoming an advanced user: Taking WordPress beyond the blog, managing your site and working with themes and frameworks.
- Coding your own: Developing themes and plugins and adding more CMS functionality to your site.
- Advanced developer topics: Action and filter hooks, the database, queries, WordPress APIs, translation and libraries and third-party tools.
- Professional development for clients and users: Becoming a WordPress pro, managing client projects, selling WordPress to clients and customers, customizing the admin screens, development practices, Multisite and BuddyPress.
- Contributing to WordPress and its community: Contributing to WordPress Core, creating free themes and plugins and helping others to learn.
Now you probably shouldn’t be surprised that many of these resources are from WPMU itself, but it’s not just linkbait. If you work through these sites, you are well on your way to becoming a WordPress pro – free!
When you’re done exploring all these sites, you should also track down a copy of WordPress in Depth for even more material that will help you learn and take part in WordPress.
McCollum and her colleagues pledge to update the list as required, so if you find a worthwhile site, let them know.
Rededicating to NaBloPoMo
One of the side slogans for National Blog Posting Month is “30 days, 30 posts.” I’m still aiming to do that. Despite the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, there will be a post on Thursday. You’ll probably see two posts on Friday, even have the subjects picked out. See you then!
Michael McCallister: Notes from the Metaverse 