NY Times uses it, Techcrunch uses it, Mashable, Flickr and Ebay use it too. So does Katy Perry, Perez Hilton and Martha Stewart. They all use WordPress for their blogs and websites. Girls in Tech does too and probably many of you as well.
WordPress is today the worlds most used content management system. WordPress 3.0 has been downloaded 12.5 million times and the the hosted WordPress.com has almost 14 million bloggers! For your WordPress site you can choose among 1,200 themes and plug in more than 11,000 different plugins.
With so many users we thought it only right to pay some attention to WordPress by creating an event around the CMS giant. On November 3rd we invite Ann Oyama, web developer and WP consultant (and electrical engineer!), to talk to us about developing for the WordPress community. We will also get techie and dive head first into a demonstration on how to create custom WordPress websites and how to use custom taxonomies and post types. For newbies to WordPress, like myself, a taxonomy is a way of classifying data, making it easier to organize your content. Post types is another way of managing content in an organized way.
Join us for this event if you are a blogger, developer or interested in learning more about WordPress. This will be a developer-focused event, but will serve as a good, fast, introductory for you who want to learn more about the technical details behind your blog or site.
Feel free to also send us any WordPress related questions that you would like Ann Oyama to address: info@girlsintech.net, Facebook, Twitter @GITSF.
Hope to see you at KickLabs November 3rd! Get your tickets here: http://wp2nite.eventbrite.com/
