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How To Create A Local WordPress Install | WordCamp Dallas 2009

January 17, 2010 By John P. 7 Comments

Matthew “Spamboy” McGarity shows us how to preform a local installation of wordpress. This allows a user to have an installation of wordpress on a USB drive, portable hard drive or just their local machine. With this local install, a user now has a complete WordPress development environment separate from his or her live WordPress site.

Thanks to Dave Curlee for filming and editing this, as well as incorporating the sign language interpreters into this video, and the other videos from WordCamp Dallas 2009. You can also follow Dave on Twitter or Spamboy on Twitter.
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Filed Under: Wordpress Tagged With: Dallas, Dave Curlee, Spamboy, WordCamp, Wordpress

WordCamp Dallas 2009: Dave Curlee – How To Add Video To Your WordPress Site

August 27, 2009 By John P. 2 Comments

Oh good lord. You guys are in for a treat that I will never live down. You get to see me in my full on Pimp outfit from the brief appearance at WordCamp Dallas 2009. I can’t believe that Dave left that in the video. Oh, who am I kidding. I can believe he left it in there! Anyway, here is Dave Curlee lecturing on How To Add Video To Your WordPress Site.

Of course, all of these WordCamp videos were produced and edited by Dave Curlee. So, when it comes to this video he had to give the lecture, oversee himself being filmed, and edit and post it. Whew! That’s a lot of work!
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Filed Under: The Man's Videos, Tutorials, Wordpress Tagged With: Dave Curlee, The Man's Videos, Tutorials, WordCamp, WordCamp Dallas, Wordpress

WordCamp San Francisco 2009: Matt Cutts’ Lecture – Straight From Google, What You Need To Know

August 20, 2009 By John P. 9 Comments

Matt Cutt’s previous lecture on whitehat SEO techniques for bloggers has been very popular since I posted it, so now I’m happy to present an updated video from WordCamp San Fran in which Matt brings us “Straight From Google, What You Need To Know”.

In this lecture Matt addresses questions about Google PageRank, backlinks, SEO, keywords, niches, URL structures, Titles, post frequency, and Katamari philosophy (you’re going to have to watch it to see what that means).
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