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I will be speaking at the September Philly WordPress Meet-up. I’m presenting WordPress Plug-in Development to the ‘Advanced’ group.
Here are some of the topics that will be discussed:
If you use XO Web Hosting’s one click install for wordpress, it automatically installs wordpress to the /wordpress directory. Here are steps to correct this, and point wordpress back to your site’s root directory.
If you are hosting your website with XO (or working with a client that hosts with them) and installed WordPress using their ‘one-click’ tool, you will have noticed that WordPress gets installed in it’s own directory. If you are using WordPress as a CMS, you will need to make a couple modifications to get this directory appearing as if it’s the home page.
Placing your WordPress install in a directory other than root keeps your site secure from bots scanning your site for WordPress exploits. I would recommend doing this every time you set a site up with WordPress. It also has the added benefit of keeping your root directory nice and tidy. XO website hosting is taking this precaution on your behalf.
Follow these steps to get the /wordpress directory XO automatically set up pointing back to your www.domain.com root:
That’s it. Feel free to post in the comments below if you are running into any issues with this.
Approximately 50 people attended, ranging from bloggers to experienced developers to entrepreneurs with WordPress based businesses. The meet-up had a great vibe, and I met alot of really interesting people.
There was a huge turnout – standing room only. Shortly after we grabbed pizza provided by sponsor Web Dev Studios we split into groups – blogger and developer. This format worked for me. There is some discussion on the meetup site about keeping us together in the future, and I see the benefits of that too. I joined the developer group, and really don’t know what transpired in the blogger group. I think it’s fair to say that many in the developer group blog too, and I would love to share my knowledge of customizing WordPress with non-developers.
There was a lot of great discussion around future topics. @Zamoose, who will speaking at October’s WordCamp, wowed the developer group with his knowledge of securing WordPress, speeding it up, optimizing it for tons of traffic, and finding the best parent themes to develop with. (He has his own parent themes he built).
Philly’s first ever WordCamp will be happening October 30th. Also coming up is the September 11th WordCamp Mid-Atlantic, which looks pretty stellar.
I met LOTS of great people at Wednesday night’s meet-up. Most of the tech events I get to are pretty, um, technical. So I had no idea there was this huge social media scene in Philadelphia. I managed to find quite a few of the people I met on twitter. Interested in seeing who attended? Join the group’s meet-up page.
Did I mention that I won the door prize – Professional WordPress – authored by meet-up organizer Brad Williams (@williamsba). Sweet! The other prize was a free class at Future Media Concepts, who hosted the event. I don’t know who won that. I was probably looking at the book I just won.
Update 8/13/2010: Check out @zamoose blog post with links to resources discussed at the meeting
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