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VIP Intensive Developer Workshop Recap

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A little more than a week ago, the VIP Services team hosted the 1st VIP Intensive Developer Workshop in Napa, California.

We wanted a small, intimate event, and it sold out quickly with a healthy waiting list of hopeful attendees! The intensive workshop mixed in-depth developer topics & discussion with lively onsite and offsite dinners in the beautiful setting of Napa, California.

We’ve gotten some great feedback from the attendees, but what was absolutely encouraging was this:

  • 100% would recommend the conference to a colleague
  • 96% plan on attending again & 4% will send someone else from their company

If you’d like to be notified when the next VIP Event (partner meetups, networking events, training, and conferences) is announced, insert your email address below – we’ll send out event announcements and give you the first opportunity to sign up for the next one!

If instead you’d like the VIP Services team to do private training for your developer or editorial teams, get in touch by filling out our Contact form.

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Below are some photos from the event – we hope you’ll be there next time!
 

The Wall Street Journal powers new WSJ Streams with WordPress

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WSJ streams are a new interface from The Wall Street Journal for reading about large events, breaking news stories, markets coverage, and other areas at the core of the Journal’s reporting.

A stream is a single page that a reader can leave open and, without reloading, watch the news develop in real-time including headlines, articles, breaking news alerts, markets data, documents, photos, Twitter tweets and generally any new information about the subject or event. Readers can also choose to follow the updates on Facebook or Twitter through dedicated accounts for each stream.

The WSJ uses WordPress as the tool to integrate content from multiple CMS, APIs, and services to provide a centralized stream of activity.

Below is the WSJ Stream for the Oscars which happened this past weekend. The Wall Street Journal plans on using more streams in the future, such as for the Arizona Primary, Super Tuesday, and more.

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Drinks in Miami Beach with the WordPress.com VIP Team

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Do you run a large-scale WordPress site, or make your living using & building with WordPress?

Come join the WordPress.com VIP team for a drink and an informal chat on Thursday, February 2nd in Miami Beach!!

The VIP team will be joined by special guests, WordPress.com Systems Team Lead, Barry Abrahamson and WordPress.com Social Team Lead Michael Adams!

The event is free to attend but please sign up so we can get an approximate head count.

Register here for the event!!

Intensive WordPress.com VIP Developer Training Workshop: March 2012

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We offer WordPress developer training to VIPs year-round. Read on for more information.

Do you run a large-scale WordPress site with millions of pageviews per month? Are you interested in optimizing and scaling up your enterprise site and utilizing the latest WordPress features for your content?

The WordPress.com VIP Intensive Developer Workshop will take place in March 2012, and this three-day event will include a packed curriculum for VIP developers with some special guests, like Matt Mullenweg, the co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic, and Barry Abrahamson, Systems Team Lead for WordPress.com.

The training will be very hands-on and topics will include: WordPress coding standards, security, caching, optimizing themes and plugins, implementing new core WordPress features, and we’ll be further tailoring the curriculum based on registered participants’ input for their preferred sessions.

We’re going to keep the event small, with preference being given to VIP developers and select VIP partners, but if you’d like to attend the event, please fill out this form and we’ll put you on the waiting list if any spots open up.

Here are more details about the event:
March 26: Arrival in the afternoon with a special keynote from Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, on the future of WordPress for developers. Reception & dinner.
March 27 & 28: Full days of training with VIP instructors.
March 29: Wrap-up, farewell breakfast and morning departures.
Pricing: $3250 per person, excluding airfare. Airport transfers, meals and lodging (3 nights) included.
Location: The Carneros Inn, Napa, California

Make: Kit Reviews from O’Reilly Media on WordPress

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A complement to O’Reilly Media’s popular Make Magazine, Make: Kit Reviews | The Ultimate Kit Guide is for DIY projects involving computers, electronics, robotics, metalworking, woodworking and other disciplines, and it’s now on WordPress! It should awaken the handyman or woman inside you.

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Mac Miller : WordPress Publisher Spotlight

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Joel  - 6Degrees Social LLC, Project Leader, answered a few questions about Mac Miller’s site and WordPress.

Tell us about the site:
Mac Miller is yet another successful artist hailing from Pittsburgh’s Rostrum Records.  Rostrum chose 6Degrees to build a community site that would be a great destination for fans interested in staying up on news, tour, photos, videos and much more.

What were the reasons you chose WordPress to build the site?
Mac’s fan base is huge but also active.  We needed an established content management system that would be able to handle the traffic while also having the functionality a music artist requires.  After we discovered BuddyPress there was no question that the WordPress / BuddyPress combination was the right direction to go.  We’re also pleased with WordPress’s admin system as we find it very user-friendly for any content managers that me assisting the site.  Bottom line, WordPress is stable, user-friendly and has an incredible developer community supporting it.  All these resources made WordPress the answer.

What are your team’s favorite WordPress features?

Custom post types are very impressive and flexible, and the huge library of plugins for almost any feature you could want.

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