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Hello from WordCampBirmingham (#wcbhm09).

CMDR Mitchcraft

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WordCampBirmingham is little under an hour and a half underway down here at the Innovation Depot in Birmingham.  Dougal gave an amazing presentation on plugin development earlier and Sara Cannon is giving a great presentation on branding WordPress as we speak.  There’s a lot of people here (around 200ish) and so far the lineup of presentations is looking to be killer.

I’ll update this as the day goes on – Matt M. himself is going to give the lunch keynote so that promises to be good as always.

wcbhm09, WordCamp, WordCampBirmingham
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    It’s definitely possible to make a living doing custom WordPress plugin and web development, but I don’t think it’s possible to make a living just building plugins and asking for donations. Do you feel that users are ungrateful for your work?Not really ungrateful, no, but I definitely think that some are blissfully ignorant. I imagine…

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  • Favorite Plugins–Yours, Mine, and Everyone’s

    Favorite Plugins–Yours, Mine, and Everyone’s

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    OK – so I’ve tallied up the results from Tuesday and came up with some really interesting results.  So, I’m going to do something a little fun.  Here are your favorite plugins as determined by the comments, my favorite plugins, and the top 5 plugins from the WordPress repository; let’s see how they match up…

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