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.
The rumors are WordPress 2.7 will be coming to a download near you sometime tonight. Release Candidate 1 is widely successful and I’m really looking forward to upgrading to the full version. If you’re curious as to what the future entails, here are some great posts around the Internet showcasing the new goodness: The Official…
One of the most useful features WordPress has is the ability to create custom image sizes from uploads. This takes the guesswork out of design, as it allows me to specify exactly the dimensions I need for my image. For a long time, WordPress had the ability to switch between a “soft crop”, which basically…
