Adding Projects to GeorgeSpake.com
How I added a custom post type to my site to showcase projects I’ve worked on.
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Redesigning GeorgeSpake.com
I’ve redesigned GeorgeSpake.com with the default WordPress TwentyTwenty theme.
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GiveCamp Memphis 2018
This past weekend, Feb 23-25, the seventh annual GiveCamp Memphis event was
held at the Fedex Institute of Technology on the University of Memphis Campus.
“** GiveCamp is a weekend-long event where technology professionals from
designers, developers and database administrators to marketers and web
strategists donate their time to provide solutions for non-profit
organizations”** A dozen nonprofits and more than 80 volunteers made this the
largest GiveCamp Memphis yet.
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Talk: Beyond Custom Post Types – Building an Organizational News Site with WordPress
Slides and speaker notes prepared for a talk at WordCamp Raleigh 2017.
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GiveCamp 2017
GiveCamp Memphis is a weekend-long event
where local developers and designers get together to build software for non-
profit organizations. Give Camp 2017 was held on February 17th, 18th, and 19th
at The Fedex Institute of Technology at the University of Memphis. This was a
new location for the event, now on its seventh year , thanks to the recently
established partnership between the University of Memphis and the Memphis
Technology Foundation.
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Talk: Intro to WP-CLI
These notes are for a talk at the WordPress Memphis User Group on October 6, 2016 .
WP-CLI is a command line utility for WordPress that I regularly use to manage WordPress sites. WP-CLI works great for small sites and huge multisite installations and without it, some of the work I do - even as simple as updating multiple WordPress sites - would be magnitudes more tedious. This is something that everyone developing or maintaining WordPress sites should be familiar with.
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Talk: Demystifying WordPress Plugins
This post was written to accompany a talk about WordPress plugins at the [WordPress Memphis User Group](http://www.meetup.com/WordPress-
Memphis/events/228629209/), which meets on the first Thursday of every month.
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Create a Multisite Network Using Sub-domains Under an Existing Domain
Here’s the dilemma
You want to set up a Multisite network with subdomains but the domain you want to use for your urls is not a WordPress site and will not be part of the network.
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Using Shell Scripts to Back Up and Restore WordPress
Over the past couple of years, becoming comfortable with Linux has been one of
the most valuable things I’ve done as a web developer and I’m always looking
for ways to learn more. Diving in to shell scripting has been on the to-do
list for a while now so here’s a case where I had an opportunity to automate a
simple task with a couple of bash scripts.
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Talk: Customizing WordPress – Intro to Custom Post Types, Custom Taxonomies, Custom Fields & Custom Templates
These are the slides for a talk at the Memphis WordPress User Group
on September 4, 2014 at CoWork Memphis .
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