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anyone can submit to give a lightning talk at WCBham! go here to do so: https://2012.birmingham.wordcamp.org/submit-a-lightning-talk/
we’re closing up lightning talk submissions by end of day today and will notify speakers this evening if they are speaking at WCBham on saturday! thanks for all the submissions so far! if you’re thinking about submitting, do it! #WPYall
written by Hart Hoover at Rackspace
Our customers come to us with all kinds of applications, from CMSs like Drupal and Joomla to eCommerce applications like Magento and everything in between. I’d like to discuss one of the most popular applications we encounter, WordPress, and how the Managed Cloud team recommends deploying it at Rackspace. The end result is a WordPress site that uses Cloud Load Balancers, Cloud Servers, and Cloud Files to deliver an easily scalable, modular configuration.
For the purpose of this post, we will assume you have a domain for the site, the Cloud Servers will be CentOS 5 LAMP images with a Managed Service Level, and the web servers are configured with Postfix and SendGrid.
ZippyKid is a managed WordPress Hosting company, the fastest WordPress Host ever. We live, eat, & breathe WordPress which means we do WordPress so much better.
ZippyKid offers reliable, secure and cost effective web hosting solutions that keep your website up and running. Content Delivery Network (CDN) is included on all plans, this means content is served from servers closest to your visitors. Partnering with Rackspace, our networks & servers, along with the top 5,000 sites in the world, are located in enterprise class data centers. This give us the ability to offer you high network connectivity and security you need to ensure you your website is always accessible to your users.
We need volunteers! From manning the WordPress Help Desk (to talk with people who might need WP Help) to arriving early and help everyone register – we need people to help this amazing conference go smoothly! fill out the form so we can contact you!
We’re so happy to have Sucuri Security as one of our sponsors!
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You’ve probably heard WordPress is easy. You’ve probably heard WordPress is hard. The truth is that it can be both. It can be easy to get started… after all, it’s the home of the famous “5 minute” install. But then what?
In the WordPress for Beginner’s session of WordCamp Birmingham, I’ll take you through and explain the steps you took in the “5 minute” installation of WordPress, and break down what it means, and how it will control your website. I’ll also walk you through the different settings your website has, describe how things like widgets and menus work, and I’ll even lay out a base understanding of just what makes WordPress so much more than a blog these days.
I can promise you that scary phrases like “custom post types”, “the loop”, “taxonomies”, “queries”, and “templates” will come up, but I also promise to lay it all out in a way that almost anyone can understand.
So get excited to start your journey with WordPress the right way. We’ll lay the groundwork so that you can both get your website off the ground and churning along, and also have a base understanding of what’s making the gears turn.
I look forward to seeing you January 14th. If you haven’t already, register now.
We’re all full for speakers now, but we’re accepting a few lightning round talks (10min max). Fill out the application at the link below if you would like to give a short talk. we’ll let you know soon if you’ll be speaking at the event! thank you!
https://2012.birmingham.wordcamp.org/submit-a-lightning-talk/
Everyone! tell your friends, we’re putting in the order for WCBham Tshirts tomorrow. Register today and fill out all your details to guarantee that we get your t-shirt in your size on the day of the event!
The ticketing system can be a little confusing, so here are very specific step by step registration instructions:
Go to https://2012.birmingham.wordcamp.org/register/ and scroll down. Enter your name and email, select the weekend pass. (if you have a coupon code – Enter your coupon code and click “Apply Coupon” button. The page will refresh and now a new ticket type will be at the bottom of the list. (yes, this is confusing, apologies.) Select 1 of the newly generated ticket type, and click the button to check out with Paypal.) The page will refresh; scroll down again and you will see:
Thanks for purchasing a ticket to WordCamp Birmingham!
Your ticket link(s) are below
Ticket 1: WordCamp Birmingham Weekend Ticket
Click the link and then fill in your information. Please do this as soon as you can so we can get you a tshirt (register by the 4th to guarantee your size!). You will also get this link in an email.
When you have submitted this form you should show up at https://2012.birmingham.wordcamp.org/attendees/ at the bottom of the page.
