I had the privilege of presenting at yesterday’s WordPress Meetup and had a great time. Live coding is always a bit risky, but there were no major glitches and I think that the material was well received.
I’m not sure what I was thinking when I put all of the material on a usb stick. Turns out, all but one 50 attendees were either on an iPad or an old school notepad. The material should be shared with everyone anyway, so I thought I would summarize it here.
The theme used as the basis of all of my work is what I call the BLM basic starter theme and can be downloaded on github.
Using this theme, I striped it down a bit more to create a portfolio which you can view at portfolio-demo.
This portfolio contains two sliders and I’ve split them into two tutorials.
Part 1 – Addendum: Tutorial
As mentioned yesterday, these series of tutorial were put together as part of my teaching material. I teach a 12 week WordPress class at Langara and this material would be covered most likely in week 6 or 7 depending on the students.
One slider uses wp_get_attachement_image() while the other uses custom post types allowing to demonstrate both techniques.
The slider used is Nathan Searles Slides which is very good. Another slider to look at is Chris Coyier’s Anything slider. If you are looking to insert a video in your slider, he provides an example.
Finally for those of you who want to go responsive, have a look at Flex slider and go ahead, re-size your browser, you know you want to.
Have a look at these resources, play around and let me know if you have any questions. I’d be more than happy to help.
